I just read today's Digest and I was struck by a certain dichotomy in several of the discussion topics. On the one hand, Tony Buffa gets beat up for bemoaning the fact that faculty salaries suck compared to those of athletic coaches. The general tone of the responses is, "Hey Tony, wake up and smell the coffee...the basic economic fact of life is that winning teams bring in the big bucks and you physics PhDs don't!" On the other hand, there are also a couple of messages complaining about the big bad IRS who wants to tax all those bucks that the athletic departments bring in. In this case, I'm sure, the schools trumpet the quality education provided by their quality faculty and deny any heinous motivation, like a desire to accumulate filthy lucre. Seems to me that the responses to Tony's posts clearly imply that college athletics is nothing more nor less than the big business that the schools themselves so fervently disavow to the IRS. My sympathies lie with Tony, although I fear neither of us will live long enough to "see it come home to roost." Bob Stagat RPI '64 & '68