Stuff that bothered me today for no real reason...

Why is it that schools go cheap on their websites in stupid ways?

For example, the University of Texas did not bother to buy www.texas.edu and link it to their webpage (www.utexas.edu). The same goes for Michigan (michigan.edu could be linked to umich.edu) and a crapload of other schools.

I only noticed because I'm currently scouring the country looking for interns for this new venture.

While searching for those, I noticed something else unusual-- many schools have done away with standard e-mail addresses. At OSU, it was always lastname.(number)@osu.edu. Unless your name was Tami Fuzzybunny, you weren't going to get fuzzybunny.1@osu.edu

Now, at one Big XII school kids had e-mail addresses with:
1) lastname@(school).edu
2) firstname-lastname@(school).edu
3) nickname@(school).edu

One kid's official school e-mail involved the phrase "mrcub".

This makes it tougher than it should be to find e-mails for kids (if they were all firstname-lastname@(school).edu, you could send messages without looking up every individual kid).

I suppose it really doesn't matter at all to anyone except me.

Oh, by the way, MSU made it two Big Ten teams in the Final Four. So what was the Dick Vitale article on the front of ESPN.com tonight? "UNC's talent comes together." It closes with the line "North Carolina is the toast of the ACC right now." Because isn't that what college basketball is really all about?

Asshat.