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Hartford's President Reportedly Got Caught During A Zoom Class Trying To Convince A Professor To Publicly Support Getting Rid Of Its Division I Teams

[The Day] - Now we have an answer. Sources at the university obtained — or actually took a screen shot — of recent e-mail messages sent between professor Warren Goldstein and University president Greg Woodward. Goldstein was teaching a history class via Zoom on one side of his screen and e-mailing with Woodward with the other. Members of the class saw the exchange:

President Woodward (to Goldstein): "Use your voice. Write an editorial. Get Senate and other far groups to pass resolutions or write letters to the Courant in support of the move."

Goldstein: "I thank you for this wonderful response, Greg. I don't know how much organizing I can do, but I will definitely write something, hopefully for the Courant."

President Woodward: "Warren, it's best if you just speak to the Mission of the University and the disconnect that has grown over the years between D1 sports and the university mission. Be a faculty member with smart opinions on a more equitable experience for all your students, wellness, health, etc. It will be a part of the puzzle that needs to be said, and you can let me, and the spin doctors do the numbers."

First and foremost - fuck Greg Woodward. That's the big takeaway here. Mind you all this was and is going down during and right after Hartford made the NCAA Tournament for the first time ever. Now you have the President of the school trying to use backdoor ways to get rid of Division I sports and move it down to Division III. That guy sucks. If you're that worried about money and you think it's the right move, have the balls to do it yourself. You publicly write letters and talk about the reasons why. Don't try and get a professor involved and then use the terms 'me and the spin doctors do the numbers.' That just shows how big of a fucking dickhead you are. 

Then there's getting caught using a shared screen. We joke about old people and technology all the time, this is why. How the FUCK do you leave your email open as a professor when you're doing a lecture. How many times do we have to blog something like porn popping up or this? How many viral tweet does there have to be of the horror of a shared screen? Turn off notifications, close every single window except whatever boring ass PowerPoint slide you have up and then go. 

The whole reason he wants to move Hartford to Division III is he's claiming athletics is costing the school $13 million. I have no idea if that's correct or not because I'm not looking at balance sheets. Like I said, if it's really impossible to be a Division I school have the balls to talk about it yourself. You're the President of the University, you're in charge of these kids and making decisions for them. Lying and having secret emails is a bullshit way to go about it.