Zaretsky takes Khator to task for violating Machievelli's dictates against relying on fortuna, and mercenary football coaches.
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With a dubious victory against Tulsa sandwiched between two embarrassing losses to Navy and SMU, the Cougars are scrambling for their lives in the very division they claimed to had outgrown: the AAC. As for their ballyhooed New Year's bowl prospects, they have scattered and skittered like so many tumbleweeds over the horizon.
Are we still, as President Renu Khator announced after our Peach Bowl victory, nationally relevant? If we had "arrived" with that win over FSU, are we now "leaving"?
You probably don't need to read The Prince, much less be Machiavellian, to know the dangers of yoking the national reputation of a university to the performance of a extraordinarily well-paid coach and his militia of assistants. Doing so inevitably makes your institution the hostage of fortune.
Were he alive today, Machiavelli would see that much has already been done at UH to lay the foundations for a thriving city. New buildings continue to be shoehorned into a thickening campus, home to dedicated and deserving teachers and students.
Machiavelli would gaze in awe, and stupor, at coaching salaries that dwarf the riches of the Medici and football stadiums nearly as large as Florence. Old Nick might even ask how many student scholarships, how many new books, how many writing instructors one could afford with, say, $3 million a year.
One thing, though, is certain: Machiavelli had harsh words for the role of mercenaries in self-respecting republics. "Any man who founds his state on mercenaries," he warned, "can never be safe or secure."
Article here:
https://www.google.com/#q=uh+dangerous+bet+football
Excerpts here:
With a dubious victory against Tulsa sandwiched between two embarrassing losses to Navy and SMU, the Cougars are scrambling for their lives in the very division they claimed to had outgrown: the AAC. As for their ballyhooed New Year's bowl prospects, they have scattered and skittered like so many tumbleweeds over the horizon.
Are we still, as President Renu Khator announced after our Peach Bowl victory, nationally relevant? If we had "arrived" with that win over FSU, are we now "leaving"?
You probably don't need to read The Prince, much less be Machiavellian, to know the dangers of yoking the national reputation of a university to the performance of a extraordinarily well-paid coach and his militia of assistants. Doing so inevitably makes your institution the hostage of fortune.
Were he alive today, Machiavelli would see that much has already been done at UH to lay the foundations for a thriving city. New buildings continue to be shoehorned into a thickening campus, home to dedicated and deserving teachers and students.
Machiavelli would gaze in awe, and stupor, at coaching salaries that dwarf the riches of the Medici and football stadiums nearly as large as Florence. Old Nick might even ask how many student scholarships, how many new books, how many writing instructors one could afford with, say, $3 million a year.
One thing, though, is certain: Machiavelli had harsh words for the role of mercenaries in self-respecting republics. "Any man who founds his state on mercenaries," he warned, "can never be safe or secure."
