I really wonder if it would be a good thing if big-time sports were banished from campuses, and colleges could then get back into the business of educating young people instead?
I think you are right....I look at college sports fitting in with university curriculum sort of like having a bowl of ice cream and then eating asparagus.
Very Very Few Athletes Can Be Considered Students!!!!! “*-Ology” and “*-Studies” or (???-Science) are NOT Majors, and any University that has a Remedial Department in anything is just a glorified middle school. With few exceptions, anybody who’s college career is defined by how well they run, kick, throw, or catch, is incredibly unlikely to contribute anything of any measurable value to the knowledge of mankind.
Indeed, let’s hear them bitch and moan to Kingdom Come when these poor deprived athletes have the academic standards raised to normal levels
And let’s see how many of the complainers ever get the choice of accepting a scholarship and benefits worth tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands
Since many of them were “affirmative action’d” admitted, then maybe we can end all the unfairness by raising standards and having true ‘student athletes
Think they authors would be happy then? No more “expolitation’ no more hard work to get an education
If big-time sports were banished from some of the
campuses then where would the students ever learn about
capitalism, the business schools?
It would. The incestuous relationship between money-making sports with rosters containing many unqualified "students" getting scholarships and the fake students only looking for a ride to multi-million dollar pro careers makes a mockery out of college education. Pay the athletes? Their scholarships are pay...it's to play sports, not to excel in the classroom. Baseball's minor league setup which keeps preparation for the pros out of college is a much better setup.
Perhaps football doesn't belong in colleges at all. Let the programs be run by the private sector in affiliation with the NFL.
Make college sports a club activity, not paid for by the school. Let the clubs pay for tuition, living expenses etc.No affiliation other than name of team. Flunk out of school, no playing in sports.