FSU bowing to pressure

I just love the news they put on TheOnion.com.

Following is a copy of my favorite article from their most recent edition, only slightly-modified to note their humiliation this past weekend:

Florida State University To Phase Out Academic Operations By 2010
September 19, 2006 Onion Sports

SARASOTA, FL—Bowing to pressure from alumni, students, and a majority of teaching professors of Florida State University, athletic director Dave Hart Jr. announced yesterday that FSU would completely phase out all academic operations by the end of the 2010 school year in order to make athletics the school's No. 1 priority.

"It's been clear for a while that Florida State's mission is to provide the young men and women enrolled here with a world-class football program, and this is the best way to cut the fat and really focus on making us No. 1 every year," Hart said in the wake of a humiliating gridiron loss last weekend to Clemson University. "While it's certainly possible for an academic subsidiary to bring a certain amount of prestige to an athletic program, the national polls have made it clear that our non-athletic operations have become a major distraction."

FSU's restructuring program will begin with the elimination of the College of Arts and Sciences, effective October 15.