Groucho Again. This Time on “Playing College Moneyball – NYTimes.com”

Playing College Moneyball – NYTimes.com.

I wrote,

” “…universities are simply not built to run a multibillion-dollar entertainment industry…”

Dean Quincy Adams Wagstaff had a solution for that.

GROUCHO (Dean Quincy Adams Wagstaff ): Have we got a stadium?

FACULTY: Yes.

GROUCHO: Have we got a college?

FACULTY: Yes.

GROUCHO: Well, we can’t support both. Tomorrow we start tearing down the college.

—From Horse Feathers, 1932, starring the Marx Brothers

Dean Wagstaff’s advice may not have been followed literally, but it certainly has figuratively.”