I think big-time college sports have had a corrupting influence on the universities. It might be a good idea to go back to old idea that college athletes were actual students, not hired guns, so to speak. Ban athletic scholarships and create minor leagues for aspiring football and basketball players, as in baseball.
“I think big-time college sports have had a corrupting influence on the universities. It might be a good idea to go back to old idea that college athletes were actual students, not hired guns, so to speak. Ban athletic scholarships and create minor leagues for aspiring football and basketball players, as in baseball.”
I am a HUGE college football fan, and have been since the 1950s. And I agree with you about banning athletic scholarships, and let students take the field.
Quit paying coaches 5-10 million dollars a year too. If your coach makes that much, it’s no longer an amateur sport.
Quit paying coaches 5-10 million dollars a year too. If your coach makes that much, it’s no longer an amateur sport.
Yes, good points.
For whatever reason, baseball evolved with minor leagues, which are the farm teams for the major league teams.
In football and basketball, those sports evolved with the college sports teams becoming, in effect, their farm teams.
One of the seldom discussed issues with athletic scholarships, is that big numbers of players don’t graduate from college. Theoretically they are getting a free college education, but how many derive any benefits from that education? It’s worth discussing.
Before the euphemistic term scholarship it was known as a fee exemption. Just how many scholars are on a basketball or football squad—one?
That’s one thing baseball has over football. Every time I’ve seen a pro footfall minor league team start, it fails in a season or two. So as far as solutions go, that isn’t one.