[The Great RJ]

I'm sorry, but I don't have much sympathy for college sports. For years many schools have maintained football and basketball factories where anyone warm and breathing who could carry a ball was admitted regardless of academic merit.

I personally saw some these "student athletes" turn out to be little more than street hoods who succeeded in neither their athletic or academic requirements. What is really tragic is that scholarships are being dished out to these players with only flash in the pan prospects, while more academically credible, but somewhat less athletically talented individuals are ignored.

[Enterprise]

I too have somewhat mixed emotions here. While I deplore the Penis Envy act - AKA TITLE IX,- I also deplore the recruiting of thugs onto major collegiate sports teams, while truly academic athletes can't get deserved scholarships or are excluded from being "walk-ons" because some thug got preference.

[Conservateacher]

This is a different issue. No colleges should not recruit criminals. But this isn't about that. This is whether mens athletics should be eliminated because a small number of radical feminists who don't care about men (lesbians) are politically powerful and have been able to comandeer this issue. Women are not as interested (studies have proven) in participating as men yet there are now more sports and more teams for women in colleges than for men.