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While most people who run Universities have a certain mandate, the President who runs BYU has quite another. Keeping the flock under control is the first mandate. I mean really wondering about kids going to Vegas and the bad influence. Is the real mission of BYU, send us your kids and we will keep them safe until they get married and have couple of kids. Although statistics will prove if they get them married and with kids, the success rate of keeping them in the church goes up, a lot of those early marriages and quick kids end up in some difficult marriages down the road. We were just discussing the other day with a group of friends how many rocky marriages we know about that started with some RM telling some girl he had a vision and God wanted her to say yes. |
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1.) Support and be actively engaged in furthering its success. See Holland, Lee and Bateman. 2.) Do nothing and hope for the best. See Samuelson. Notice a trend? Legitimate University professors involved is a good thing. Ecclesiastical babysitters who are taught that they talk for God involved was not a good thing. Like most BYU fans I would prefer a President passionate about BYU sports and willing to do what it takes to make them better, but if the President is a GA and there to ensure young men and young women stay pure, I would prefer they take the Samuelson approach. Bateman was passionate in his own way and involved, however he believed, as did others, that his ideas were revelation. I say keep those guys happy in luxurious press boxes and allow Holmoe to run it the best way it can given its circumstances. Perhaps BYU is not great but the peformance under the indifferent President appears better than it has been for some time.
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I'm sure he wished that BYU football
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A former high-profile VP at BYU told a friend of mine that if he were in charge, he would immediately disband the engineering, law, and business schools and make BYU strictly a liberal arts school. In other words, get rid of the the only three programs that have any kind of national respect. I took some solace in the fact that dumbass ideas like this are tough to pull off unless one can build a broad concensus among the leadership. Not bloody likely. I suspect that dropping sports would be similarly difficult. One can only hope.
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I believe that Bednar was involved with BYU football back in the day (as a student athlete).
He is a BYU football fan. I know I spoke with him about their season in back in '04. |
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Bateman was a BYU fan and loved BYU fans, but had he put too much emphasis on athletics, my guess would be that the Brethren in SLC would have had a chat with him about how important athletics really is in BYU's mission as a university. If folks like Jay Santos have a problem with the way Samuelson is doing things, they ought to take it up with the Brethren. They may allow the President at BYU to make decisions, but I'm guessing it needs their approval.
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Besides, if Samuelson(and the Brethern) decided to cancel BYU athletics, including the fb program, what fun would that be for Utah?
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