FullyERicht
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Then you cannot under any circumstance pretend these football players are here for anything but football.
I get it, its a school first blah blah. I get it, it's not professional blah blah. Fine, then eliminate the team. There is NO POINT in fielding a major college squad, fill it with below grade level athletes from inner city schools, all of whom are primarily concerned with making it to the NFL, and then treating them like regular students. The ONLY people this serves are bleeding heart administrators who don't like being in the moral and ethical quandary of "not educating the athletes".
Whenever someone says "well they are a school, they are morally responsible for educating the players", the answer to that absurd statement is as follows: 1) if education is the primary goal, then a much more morally appropriate avenue would be to spend money educating kids who actually ARE at grade level for your university, and stop wasting time with a football program that will never be able to match those standards. 2) of course, the only method a University has to PAY for this education of low opportunity students is the result of FANS/ALUMS PAYING FOR IT TO SEE THEM PLAY.
Does anyone in their right mind think that a University would be able to generate 50k a year scholarships for what amounts to hundreds of students, the majority of whom aren't academically suited for major universities, without the athletics attached to the students? The people who do donate for purely academic scholarships already use that money to pay for ACADEMIC STUDENTS. Without the sport, these kids WOULD NOT BE HERE. So why do certain universities lie to themselves? B/C it makes them feel better about using kids to generate millions of dollars in revenue and free publicity.
A bleeding heart like Shalala would never allow herself, as a lifelong educator, to accept the fact that Stacy Coley is not here to write an English paper. He is here to catch footballs, make the school money, please fans, and if he is fortunate, play in the NFL. But that is a moral conflict that she refuses to engage. The result is a farce in which our student athletes are spending more time doing things OTHER than football than their counterparts at successful programs like FSU, Bama, etc. Don't believe me?
Tell me, what kind of school let's a 2nd year student take strictly online classes? The kind that has come to terms with the farce, and stops pretending these kids are something they aren't.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf...ine-courses-only-campus-233900102--ncaaf.html
I get it, its a school first blah blah. I get it, it's not professional blah blah. Fine, then eliminate the team. There is NO POINT in fielding a major college squad, fill it with below grade level athletes from inner city schools, all of whom are primarily concerned with making it to the NFL, and then treating them like regular students. The ONLY people this serves are bleeding heart administrators who don't like being in the moral and ethical quandary of "not educating the athletes".
Whenever someone says "well they are a school, they are morally responsible for educating the players", the answer to that absurd statement is as follows: 1) if education is the primary goal, then a much more morally appropriate avenue would be to spend money educating kids who actually ARE at grade level for your university, and stop wasting time with a football program that will never be able to match those standards. 2) of course, the only method a University has to PAY for this education of low opportunity students is the result of FANS/ALUMS PAYING FOR IT TO SEE THEM PLAY.
Does anyone in their right mind think that a University would be able to generate 50k a year scholarships for what amounts to hundreds of students, the majority of whom aren't academically suited for major universities, without the athletics attached to the students? The people who do donate for purely academic scholarships already use that money to pay for ACADEMIC STUDENTS. Without the sport, these kids WOULD NOT BE HERE. So why do certain universities lie to themselves? B/C it makes them feel better about using kids to generate millions of dollars in revenue and free publicity.
A bleeding heart like Shalala would never allow herself, as a lifelong educator, to accept the fact that Stacy Coley is not here to write an English paper. He is here to catch footballs, make the school money, please fans, and if he is fortunate, play in the NFL. But that is a moral conflict that she refuses to engage. The result is a farce in which our student athletes are spending more time doing things OTHER than football than their counterparts at successful programs like FSU, Bama, etc. Don't believe me?
Tell me, what kind of school let's a 2nd year student take strictly online classes? The kind that has come to terms with the farce, and stops pretending these kids are something they aren't.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf...ine-courses-only-campus-233900102--ncaaf.html
