They transfer to Ole Miss, they can get into the Honors College.
Ain't just football, either.
I dated a girl in college who TA'd Math 099 (remedial math for jocks). She used to get multiple choice tests back with all of the answers shifted off by one ... where they'd memorized the test incorrectly.
She said that grading by the prof had "C" standing for "Close Enough".
Clearly the instructor is brilliant.
College football is fun to watch, in person or on TV - and yet we all know there are corruptions inherent in the system. I was intrigued by your emphasis on “exploitative” - where you headed with that?
If anyone has missed how corrupt college athletics is.......
Penn State. Three years ago. Jerry Sandusky. Child rape for decades. No one said a thing until it became beyond excusing anymore.
That’s how corrupt college athletics is. A crappy essay is nothing.
I’m sure that him not identifying Parks as the first to be arrested in a civil rights bus protest was not an oversight; /sarcasm
http://www.cracked.com/article_19076_5-important-people-who-were-screwed-out-history-books.html
What is it with these sports scholarships anyway? Surely college scholarships should be granted on the basis of academic merit, not the ability to kick a ball about on a field.
Being articulate is not a requirement to be a gladiator. :)
Funny story: I have a friend who played for Penn State's 1986 football team. At the time, Joe Paterno was known for at least trying to get the athletes to study and get decent grades. Paterno made a big speech at one early practice that if anyone needed time off from practice to study, he would give it to them. My friend, who was smart, came to Paterno one day and said he was struggling with accounting and needed to take off a practice to study for it. Paterno, who knew my friend was smart, looked at him and said,”When I said that, I wasn't talking to you. I was talking to the dummies who are getting Ds and Fs.”
"Mutha F-ing 'A' "
"Mutha F-ing 'B' "
"Mutha F-ing 'C' ".....
The reason is obvious. It’s the content that matters. If the paper parrots the Politically Correct views, it gets a high mark.
I never gave a d... about college football or any other college sport. I mean, sure, if you play your traditional, local rivals within a 300 mi. radius, and it’s amateur, and all the players are really students, and you’re into sports...
It just amazes me when stands fill up with thousands and thousands of screaming fans who really care about a game, that the outcome really, really maters to them.
How do players recruited solely for their athletic ability, who are not students in any true sense, who have nothing in common with the rest of the student body somehow represent the school?
In addition to the egregious mistakes, the assignment itself is ridiculous. Even at the undergrad level students complete research, not reports! There should be a thesis statement with pages of cited support. A report is something assigned to middle school children!
While the administration is in charge and liable, the ‘students’ still have to accept responsibility for being part of the fraud. They knew that they were not getting an education, that they were a party to the scheme. I do not feel sorry for them.
I can hear it now....
“But...but...but...This guy is our leading wide receiver! He broke the school record for touchdowns! He got us to a bowl game! We CAN’T possibly suspend him from the team for academic reasons! Where’s our TV revenue going to come from????
As much as many of us enjoy college sports...that is NOT the reason for the existence of institutes of higher learning....DESPITE the thoughts of alumni and boosters.
(I know my thoughts are not popular among those people who support SUCCESSFUL sports programs.)
Affirmative action, racial quotas and artifically elevated grades to minority students who barely attended classes are what gave us this president.......