First things first!

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

Who needs computers when you can have repetitive concussion ?

keep to the Fen Causeway

The US is an intellectual abyss...and don't you forget it!

Plenty of room in CA for hardworking intelligent folks.

I have a t-shirt with that on it. And whatever you do, DON'T BLINK!

My brother was pre-med at a college in Louisiana from 1969 to 1972, and they didn't have enough money to supply sufficient test tubes in the science labs, but they could spend thousands of dollars every week getting the marching band uniforms dry-cleaned for the football games.  So this is a long-established priority and explains a lot about the U S of A.

'tis strange I should be old and neither wise nor valiant. From "The Maid's Tragedy" by Beaumont & Fletcher

I can't believe you're going to make me defend those inbred, shit-kicking yokels down the road, but the story is nonsense.

A few points:

(1) These are two separate budgets.  Money isn't taken from the GR fund and put in the proprietary athletic fund.  Especially not at a massive powerhouse football school like UF.

(2) Computer science is not being eliminated at UF.  It's being merged into the engineering school.

(3) The Gators make obscene amounts of money on their athletics department -- so much so that they're a net contributor to the school's general revenue fund.  The entire Dept of Athletics has a budget of $99m.  UF makes a lot more than that on football alone via ticket sales and merchandise (and that's not getting into Booster cash).

The university just raised ticket prices -- not easy for a school whose football team (the main money-maker) is garbage right now -- and threw another $6m into the general revenue fund.  They're thrown something like $60m into the general revenue fund over the last few decades.

The athletic department is a huge benefit to UF.

Note the source here: Forbes, whose darling governor is the one that slashed the CS budget.  People should be ripping on Rick Scott for slashing the university budgets, not at the athletic department.  There are plenty of good examples of wasteful athletic departments, but UF's ain't one of them.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

...adding:

Let me also point out that the very blog Forbes cites for its weasel paragraph has noted that Forbes is full of shit and places the blame where it's deserved.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.