Post by tomclen on Jan 5, 2011 8:22:51 GMT -5
While watching the Sugar Bowl last night, I noticed something you see frequently: two state troopers guarding a football coach.
In this case it was the Arkansas coach. But you see it frequently, and it usually seems to be southern schools. A couple of troopers in full dress uniform, with firearms, and Smokey-the-Bear-hats out there to protect the coach.
How can that possibly make any financial sense? Wouldn't it be much cheaper to have the home team (or in this case, the Sugar Bowl) provide a couple of $20-an-hour burly security guards? How much overtime do these cops get to go on a road game? Don't they have some crimes back in Arkansas they could be working on? Are college coaches really that important that they need state-trooper-protection?
And, this may be an incorrect bias on my part, but why does it seem that this is a normal practice for the states where they are always bitching about gummint spending?
In this case it was the Arkansas coach. But you see it frequently, and it usually seems to be southern schools. A couple of troopers in full dress uniform, with firearms, and Smokey-the-Bear-hats out there to protect the coach.
How can that possibly make any financial sense? Wouldn't it be much cheaper to have the home team (or in this case, the Sugar Bowl) provide a couple of $20-an-hour burly security guards? How much overtime do these cops get to go on a road game? Don't they have some crimes back in Arkansas they could be working on? Are college coaches really that important that they need state-trooper-protection?
And, this may be an incorrect bias on my part, but why does it seem that this is a normal practice for the states where they are always bitching about gummint spending?
