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Instead of picking on Florida St. why not criticize the University of Michigan? They pay their football coach $7 million a year and have a football stadium that holds 110,000 people including hundreds of luxury suites. Right or wrong UM is considered an “elite” Academic Institution.
UM proves my point that the athletics and Academics have nothing to do with each other. UM football is basically a professional sports team which for all practical purposes has nothing to do with the University other than using their name and land.[/quote]
You have a point that the UM football team is basically a separate entity from the rest of UM Ann Arbor. The coach, team and stadium are largely paid for by rich alumni and boosters. The school itself is quite academically rigorous, both at the undergraduate and graduate level (depending on your major, of course).
It is a good example of a school with an active party scene, strong football team, and is at least reasonably academically strong (it’s no Harvard, but even Dartmouth is no Harvard).
FSU on the other hand doesn’t have the best academic reputation. Like any big state school a motivated student could get a good education, but it definitely has a reputation as somewhere you could skate by, drunk and high most of the time on Mommy and Daddy’s dime.
