Beyond the pale. At least in the one department that outsiders like the WFDS can gauge.
Athletics.
Sports.
Sooooooooooo bad. Their teams in every sport get killed all the time. Rugby lost a game by over 50. Men's soccer lost a game by 10. The basketball team, OMG, men and women, they would not win a game at the Special Olympics.
Jeff Davis of Postmedia News scribbled a piece that I read in yesterday's Montreal Gazette that there is a fear that 33 per cent of the profs at Canada's military colleges may be blown out to save coin.
I have a much better idea for DND and the Stephen Harpers. Since you obviously don't give a flying f*ck about sports at RMC just axe the whole program. Seriously. RMC sucks hugely at sports but has coaches that get paid and teams that travel all over the Great White North to get destroyed. D stroyed.
This is not a down period for RMC either; they have totally been terrible forever at everything. Everything.
Before you respond, I know the excuse. They work hard academically. Well so does Army, Navy and Air Force in the States but they don't suck at everything all the time. Air Force was top 25 in hoop for a bit this year; the Army/Navy football game gets 100,000 plus fans every year. And Air Force went to and won a football bowl against Toledo this season.
You want to save money on your military schools Department of National Defense; kill the athletic department. They are embarrassing. Always embarrassing.
WFDS
RMC considers it's athletics as of considerable importance to the training of RMC Cadets - even if the success rate of the program is completely lackluster. Victories are not the purpose of the athletics program at the Royal Military College. Sports are considered a good opportunity for cadets to develop leadership, and esprit de corps. The sports program is justified on the basis of producing good military officers, victories in athletic competition are completely secondary. In fact, RMC recently expanded its sports program with a new field-house.
ReplyDeleteThe faculty on the other hand is possibly the most corrupt group of academics in the entire country. The faculty has consistently and willfully abused the rules that govern the conduct of the public service, and they've been allowed to do so under an administration which did absolutely nothing to discipline or chastise their waste of taxpayer dollars. The faculty has for the past several years abused the system to such a degree that only two outcomes were possible; either Ottawa would eventually catch on and put an end to these practices, or, the whole system would collapse in this kind of purge. RMC has run a deficit for several years now and it's largely the fault of the faculty. RMC's new commandant has stated that he would not run a deficit, and so it may well be at his recommendation that the ax will fall squarely on the faculty.
And those positions are probably not exactly lost. In all likelihood, the work will be taken up by military members in active service, who can, and will face considerably more discipline for abusing the system.