Right here on the earth.
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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Reminded of Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson protesting 3 decades ago a very modest proposal to increase academic standards for freshman athletes.
They are called student athletes for a reason. Just go pro out of high school.
We’ve been doing that for decades with affirmative action; now they’ll openly admit any standards are “white culture”, and meeting them is “white privilege”...
Colleges are going to become post high school liberal campuses for social engineering and day care Where people can do whatever they want and parents get to be empty nesters.the classes will all be optional and about creating selfies and videos of themselves.
“why even have them attend highschool? just recruit at any ghetto basketball court.”
They basically do that already, but minors can’t be held to contracts - so they let them pretend to graduate high school before recruiting them.
“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.”
I believe Craig Robinson is Michelle Obama’s brother
The NBA should just go to the route of baseball...start a junior league out of high school...have a ‘A’ and ‘B’ league...telling the kid if he hasn’t been picked up by the 4th year...he’s finished in the league and will never make the NBA.
“Colleges are for learning.”
Snort.... Where have you been for the last 25 years?
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Right here on the earth.
I’m going to guess some programs run like that already. They just do it in secret.
So coaches want to “rent” the talent for a year or two til they attempt to go pro where most will fail.
Are you sure this is Earth? I'm not certain anymore.
To answer your last question. Not so much anymore.
Why not college placement tests for everyone, similar to what's given at community colleges? Give scholarships to students with high SAT or ACT scores. Let other students take placement tests. Many students don't score high on SAT/ACT and still do very well in college. That one test on that one day doesn't mean you're not college ready.
It’s a means to an end. The requirement has always stood in the way of them recruiting anyone they want to as ringers instead of having to pick from a pool of people who are collegians.
Just like saul, they’re not letting a good crisis go to waste.
When they need a surgeon, let them choose him on racial or ethnic grounds rather than on competence.
I may be out of step with this group but I believe athletes that attend elite sports colleges (to be determined...understood) should be paid by the colleges to play their sport.....not big money, enough for the basics......and not have to attend class for four years.
Now, don’t get all upset, hear me out. Many athletes have dreams of the big time and isn’t that what college is about......helping people achieve their dreams? We all know these athletes make money for the university.
We also all know most top level Dl athletes don’t make the pros. So, for the ones that do make the pros after four years....good for them and off they go. For the ones that don’t...which is most of them....the school that they played sports for should then admit them as a regular ordinary student on scholarship and they can then become actual students if they choose. For that matter, even the ones that make the pros should be welcome back to attend classes if they choose to do so down the road.
Many DI athletes will choose not to attend classes because they just won’t have it in them, but many will once the sports thing doesn’t pan out. I think it’s a great compromise and acknowledges the reality of the situation.
I thought those scores were abandoned earlier? Oh well.
because spoiled athletes for whom the rules already do not count need further breaks?
Yea, who would care whether the athletes are morons with the math and reading skills at the 3rd grade. They only have to be able to tell time off the scoreboard anyway.
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