Methinks a little class envy and shouts of income inequality are part of your shtick.
The great thing about America--for the time being--is you can learn and earn and burn and tell everyone else to f*** off. And if throwing a little weight around does it for someone, they're free to do it.
Once you can--or will-pony up similar cash, you'll have similar sway.
But...if you REALLY believe football is that important an aspect of a university, I respectfully disagree. It's important to you, to me, and others posting here, perhaps. In the grand scheme of things? Probably not as big as we would like, but there'd be a reason for it. More people, after all, watch the Super Bowl for the commercials. Sort of like we only bought Playboy for the articles
No class envy nor political whining from me in the least. I don't begrudge anyone making as much as they can nor doing with it what they will. Also understand that $$ = favors = power. The socio-economic climate in America is what it is, I accept most of the way it plays out and have done pretty well for myself playing along.
My criticism is exactly what I stated ... if these donors are "as big as they get", they obviously have a lot of money. They also have proclaimed that "they are the ones to decide [when der KirkFer goes]", which indicates they either:
1) have the power (I get it and don't have that big of issue with it.);
2) the expectation that their donations have bought them certain entitlements, priveleges and power; or
3) enormous egos.
My conclusion is that, despite the money and power, these super-rich donors with such enormous influence on Iowa football coaching decisions are, at best, complete morons and / or, at worse, complete hypocrites.
They're complete morons because, after a decade-long history of repetitive strategical fails, personnel mismangement and underachieving performance relative to talent, they still believe "there's enough to keep him". As I originally called it ... that makes them pretty stupid to have such a erroneous assessment.
They're hypocrites because,
IF (and the above tends to demonstrate this to be a stretch) they actually do understand competent coaching that leads to competitive, quality football and they feel compelled to contribute large amounts of money to the U of IA to support such a goal, why would they not exercise their power to remove overpaid, underperforming coaches that create inherent obstacles to achieving such success? Why would they allow such the Hawkeye football program they supposedly love enough to substantially subsidize such a gut-wrenching slow-bleed into a shambles of medicority?
Who with the financial means and the proclaimed power would allow such a thing to happen? Apparently the ignorant, Fat-Cat blowhard hypocritcal "biggest" donors of the Iowa Hawkeyes, that's who!
My shouts have nothing to do with their means and status compared to mine. It has everything to do with their blatant inaction in light of the necessity of what should be done.
