A few weeks ago my membership in John Purdue Club led to an invitation to Morgan Burke’s retirement party. It is scheduled for this Friday at the Birck Golf Complex and it will serve as the official sendoff for Purdue’s long-tenured athletic director. In what is his final act as athletic director, they are charging $25 per person (plus a cash bar) to attend the event. As much fun as it would be to go and heckle, I will not be attending.
This final act of Burke’s tenure, charging people for his own party, did not go over well on Twitter, but it was expected.