We would call putting non-collegiate qualified people on their sports teams, ringers in a sane world.
And that's been going on for decades.
Colleges are for learning.
Posted on 07/17/2020 3:52:13 AM PDT by karpov
The nation’s leading men’s college basketball coaches’ association has called the SAT and ACT “longstanding forces of institutional racism” and wants them eliminated from use in determining athletes’ eligibility.
The National Association of Basketball Coaches made the move three days after naming its first-ever Black executive director, the former Division I coach Craig Robinson. It also came the month after the organization formed a Committee on Racial Reconciliation, co-chaired by Harvard coach Tommy Amaker and South Carolina coach Frank Martin.
The committee believes the two standardized tests “no longer have a place in intercollegiate athletics or higher education at large,” Amaker and Martin said in a joint statement Thursday. “This is an important step toward combating educational inequality in our country.”
The NCAA didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
A spokesman for the College Board, which oversees the SAT, denied that the test is discriminatory and said that any objective measure of student achievement would shine a light on inequalities in the education system. He added that the College Board has asked colleges to equally consider students for admission who are unable to take the test due to Covid-19, and supports the NCAA reexamining its eligibility requirements.
A spokesperson for the ACT didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The NCAA requires incoming athletes in Division I or II sports to complete a series of requirements to be deemed academically eligible, including earning a qualifying score on either the ACT or SAT.
A proposal that accompanied the NABC news release Thursday noted the wider trend already under way to move away from the tests. Many four-year colleges and universities, including those in the Ivy League and Duke and Stanford, won’t require the tests for admissions in 2021.
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I always look to college basketball coaches for guidance
btt
We would call putting non-collegiate qualified people on their sports teams, ringers in a sane world.
And that's been going on for decades.
Colleges are for learning.
lol
Why stop there.
Make passing grades optional. Or..
Make going to class optional.
Hell, make actually attending that school optional.
What the ####. Might as go all the way.
Colleges WERE for learning; now they are businesses, and jobs programs for those with no marketable skills.
> Colleges are for learning.
You’re quite the optimist, aren’t you?
Colleges are for indoctrinating. It’s pretty clear.
TRANSLATION: “The mutants who make millions of dollars for NCAA schools but don’t get paid a dime for it are dumber than bricks, so it’s racist to make them take academic tests.”
IQ really is racist.
That said, just stop the charade that the basketball players are (generally) actually students. Pay them. Give the handful that want a degree (and can earn one) the ability to get one.
When I am King, all things will be made right.
When I am King.
New test:
1) Can you place a ball in a desired place or stop someone from doing so?
2) If so, you in
3) if not, getz outta here whitey!
“The nation’s leading men’s college basketball coaches’ association has called the SAT and ACT “longstanding forces of institutional racism” and wants them eliminated..”
Jesus, the Marxists have even penetrated the college coaching ranks!
I disagree. What do you mean by that?
If you disagree with what I said, then you presumably understand what I said.
LMAO.
Yes, why even go to college? Just go straight to the NBA. Maybe the NBA should start farm teams like major league baseball has.
why even have them attend highschool? just recruit at any ghetto basketball court.
I guess we should just eliminate all standards.
The Left never lets an opportunity go to waste.
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