Edwird -> RE: Not Sure If This Is A "Thing", But ... (1/2/2018 2:33:51 PM)
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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr I was shocked to see these troopers were Abalama State Troopers. It would have been more clear it you'd said "Alabama troopers at a public event in Louisiana." Hint. quote:
ORIGINAL: Edwird "Off duty" and "in uniform" are neither mutually exclusive or legally prohibited. quote:
Not the topic of my post at all, Then what was? Anyway, here's some more 'invective' (aka "facts," "research," etc. to others): http://www.espn.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=2631660 "Today, a head coach can't go anywhere on game day in the South without police backup. In Alabama alone, Sutton said, every football-playing college -- from Alabama to Alabama A&M -- has a contract with the state police to provide support." "But the job consists of more than hanging out on the field and chop-blocking intruders. A big part of most troopers' duties is providing advance intelligence on road trips and arranging travel routes to and from stadia and airports." "With Alabama playing at rival Tennessee on Saturday (this article written in 2006), Sutton and his detail will leave their post in Montgomery and drive their squad car to Knoxville on Thursday. They'll meet that day with the Tennessee university police to discuss traffic logistics for pregame practice and on game day, then take those officers out for dinner." So yes, 'it's a thing' and has been for awhile. If more than a penny of this were on the tax payers' dime (yeah, I know, catchphrases and aphorisms make for bad math), this would have blown up a long time ago. I know from personal experience that while many US universities have a decent sized budget for the athletic department, if they add a football team where not existing before, it explodes. The 'student activity fee' or other names it's called went from $418 to $680 the first year after adding a football team at my uni, ~ $868 the following year (I don't even want to look up what it is now). Not covered by FASFA or most scholarship awards. Suck it up, parents or working students. The -athletic department/student activity fee- expense of those Georgia and Oklahoma state troopers who ordered BBQ and green beans at home now eating at establishments in LA for the Rose Bowl who then could only get "Roti de porc avec haricots vert" is not insubstantial.
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