Posted on 07/23/2020 9:36:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
Universities in general should offer a vocational program as an option for athletes. Rather than playing pretend with athletes in mickey mouse programs, after 4-5 years in vocational studies, they would have real skills.
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Math is just another oppressive, racist construct of those evil dead white men!
Although one of my closest college friends was a halfback, he was also a EE major with a 3.5 GPA (real GPA, not a lib arts marshmallow automatic number).
However, even he admitted that a good many of his fellow jocks were dumber than a Democrat governor or major.
The SAT is essentially an IQ test. It correlates very well with future success. Why the hell do we not disengage sports with academics and let the jocks compete as they wish for future team positions? Associating them with a college (well, colleges of a few decades ago) is silly.
Is there a point to this article? Or at least one I should care about?
All testing should be dropped. It’s not as if the average college degree requires even average intelligence. Why even require athletes to attend college?! The janitors employed bu the colleges don’t attend classes. Neither do the profs or cafeteria workers.
Sports scholarships should be illegal. Admission based on anything BESIDES academic standing should be illegal.
The problem is that you get marginally intelligent players in college, and they just stay around 1 to 2 years, then move to the NBA. They can’t manage their own money, run their lives in any sane fashion, and are practically broke by age 35.
I sure would like to hear the explanation of how skin color affects (effects?) scores on a test.
Exactly.
However, the SAT is less totally an IQ test than it used to be (and has been dumbed down to go with dumbed down ed in general), which is why, for example, Mensa no longer accepts it for admission.
They are admitting jocks of all colors are far too stupid to pass a test.
I played high school basketball and baseball, 1959-1963 and if a player dropped below a “C” average, he was off the team until that average came back up.
Tough rule for some but academics were important back then.
If you want to go in for sports and have the talent you can join the single, double or triple A sports organization, get paid and take any classes you like at community collage.
If you want to go in for study you can go to collage, study and do sports for recreation.
Wow! That graph is telling.
how about we end sports scholarships period.
better yet cut all sports and end all this title ix crap.
problem solved.
Yup. So true. The NBA is the only league they could go straight to the league out of high school. I think now it is one year in college. The NFL requires them to go three years. Most of them would go straight to the NBA if they were able to do that. Most barely go to class that one year. A waste of the school’s money that could actually be better spent on other kids. Just let the bums go straight to the NBA if they are any good. Save the money for kids who are actually wanting to get a college degree.
I remember George Raveling commenting on the then popular show “That’s Incredible”. Said they filmed five USC football players going to class.
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