Posted on 03/21/2013 12:11:59 PM PDT by ColdOne
Education Secretary Arne Duncan is calling for the imposition of financial penalties on college basketball and football coaches whose players don't graduate.
Duncan argues in a USA Today op-ed that too many coaches get bonuses for athletic performance that far outpace the bonuses for academic achievement.
"If universities and colleges want to readjust a coach's priorities, they need to change the penalties and incentives they offer coaches," he and co-author Tom McMillen write. "...Poor academic performance means the team or the individual player — not the coach — gets punished. But no coach should receive financial bonuses when much of his team is flunking out or failing to get a degree."
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I want to terminate the Education Secretarys’ position/department/agency. This is about the stupidest thing I’ve heard of.
Thank the 17th Amendment.
The fines on Calipari would be enough to balance the federal budget.
How about we fine the “Education Secretary” for each and every student who doesn’t graduate, regardless of sports participation?
Humor in Education.
>>Humor in Education.<<
Quite the rarity.
Since for many athletes college sports are a fast track to the pros, I’d be in favor of forcing the athlete to repay the university all the scholarship funds he was given to play there and paid out of his professional signing bonus.
Interviewer: How hard is it to get into the University of Alabama?
Charles Barkley: Not hard if you score 20 points and pull down 10 rebounds a game.
Perhaps you need first to look to the NCAA and the NBA before you impugn Calipari’s character. The “one and done” rule for college players is the NCAA’s rule. The NBA goes along with it because it brings fresh talent into the league. Obviously, Calipari is within the rules to recruit kids who, because of their great talent, play one year and go on to the pros. What he is doing is clearly legal. I suspect your beef should more properly be with the NCAA.
Likewise, Calipari has never, ever, been charged or found guilty of breaking any of the NCAA rules and the NCAA has stated so publicly.
The one and done rule has nothing to do with the NCAA. It is the NBA saying that we won’t draft anyone until they (or their high school class) have been out of high school for a year.
Barkley went to Auburn University.
I think he was dissing Alabama.
I believe the millions in revenue that top programs bring in, or the millions in donations schools get from fat-cat alumni who want to sit in sky boxes and watch these athletes is payment enough. Schools aren’t giving out athletic scholarships to be charitable, they use the athletic programs as marketing to get alumni money and large freshmen classes.
How about returning to the old way when freshmen didn’t play varsity.
You are probably right.
At the same time, basketball coaches should be fined every time a player takes more than 2 strides without dribbling the ball. If they won’t coach the players not to walk every single time each one touches the ball, fine ‘em.
The game isn’t as much fun now that team play has been minimized so that every player becomes a star in his own eyes and the only play they care about making is a DUNK.
That’s it! Bring back the college ban on dunking!
,This idea will get shot down when black coaches at black schools get fined.... unless they give Special Rights to Black Schools
Yet another of Obama’s intellectually stunted but egomaniacal officials heard from.
Indeed, ‘intellectually stunted but egomaniacal’ describes Obama himself; little surprise, then, that all his staff selections are the same.
Massachusetts and Memphis would beg to differ on Calipari “not cheating”. In fact, both programs have had their Final 4 appearances under Calipari wiped off the record books because of cheating under Calipari.
Just a matter of time before Kentucky gets tagged
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