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It’s time to evict big-time sports from American higher education - Slate.com
Posted on 1/1/14 at 11:16 pm
Posted on 1/1/14 at 11:16 pm
An acquaintance from high school just posted this article on Facebook.
This guy is certainly on a high horse.
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This guy is certainly on a high horse.
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Yet the financial cost of college football is nothing compared with its cost to our integrity. Are some people such addicts that they will continue to rationalize the exploitation of workers on whose battered bodies their beloved entertainment industry is built? Does the rush of a win for the home team allow them to forget those teenagers who gamble on unlikely stardom and lose? Are they willing to stomach endemic sexism and the scourge of campus sexual assault?
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Posted on 1/1/14 at 11:21 pm to bamafan425
quote:had me until that
Are they willing to stomach endemic sexism
Posted on 1/1/14 at 11:22 pm to bamafan425
Repost from 1920, 1930, 1940, etc.
Posted on 1/1/14 at 11:24 pm to bamafan425
Malcolm Gladwell is also proposing removing sports from American higher education. In fact, I believe he has written about the termination of football in general.
frick those people.
frick those people.
Posted on 1/1/14 at 11:31 pm to bamafan425
fricking liberals....
I love how some people seem to some how forget that a lot of these guys while playing college sports are also receiving a college education many wouldn't get without sports. Some of which are able to become millionaires because of it.
This guy thinks none of these kids chose to play college sports. I know if I had the opportunity to play big time college football I would have in a heart beat.
I love how some people seem to some how forget that a lot of these guys while playing college sports are also receiving a college education many wouldn't get without sports. Some of which are able to become millionaires because of it.
This guy thinks none of these kids chose to play college sports. I know if I had the opportunity to play big time college football I would have in a heart beat.
Posted on 1/1/14 at 11:33 pm to bamafan425
I would hate it but the hypocrisy of the system is absurd. I try not to think about it too much.
One big fix would be to make athletes be subjected to competitive admittance like normal students.
One big fix would be to make athletes be subjected to competitive admittance like normal students.
This post was edited on 1/1/14 at 11:37 pm
Posted on 1/1/14 at 11:37 pm to bamafan425
College educators crack me up when they start hemming and hawing about sports and their role at Universities. Some schools who don't already have a strong academic background would shite bricks if the visibility and money donated from their sports disappeared.
ETA: I'd just as easily point to somewhere like Western Kentucky, who has benefitted quite a bit from their move to FBS.
ETA: I'd just as easily point to somewhere like Western Kentucky, who has benefitted quite a bit from their move to FBS.
This post was edited on 1/1/14 at 11:41 pm
Posted on 1/1/14 at 11:43 pm to bamafan425
I always wince when some professors consistently decry the big-time money game of college athletics while deciding to overlook the big-time money game that higher education has become. They will not complain of higher student fees to increase their own salaries while they leave the actual teaching to poorly paid adjuncts, nor will they complain when fees go up to fund new construction on an office building when others could be renovated at lower cost. But lord knows they will bitch and moan about football, as though athletics contribute absolutely nothing to the university.
The hypocrisy is laughable. Professors like this who claim they are arbiters for truth and knowledge need to get off their high horses as college continues to become a breeding ground for grade inflation, turning institutions of higher learning into diploma mills that exist more and more to extract money from students to make them into alumni who will donate more money.
Reform is needed in college athletics -- no question. But this kind of self-important drivel is not going to get us there.
The hypocrisy is laughable. Professors like this who claim they are arbiters for truth and knowledge need to get off their high horses as college continues to become a breeding ground for grade inflation, turning institutions of higher learning into diploma mills that exist more and more to extract money from students to make them into alumni who will donate more money.
Reform is needed in college athletics -- no question. But this kind of self-important drivel is not going to get us there.
This post was edited on 1/1/14 at 11:45 pm
Posted on 1/1/14 at 11:48 pm to bamafan425
the guy makes some points that should be pondered. his over the top delivery discredits him though. what pisses me off more than anything is that LSU has to literally beg for donations to the university while people line up and willingly contribute substantial amounts to the athletic dept. my degree from LSU made it possible for me to make literally millions of more dollars in my career than if i had not gotten it. sure, football is fun and i certainly don't advocate dropping it. i just hate to the important stuff ignored (like education).
Posted on 1/2/14 at 12:32 am to bamafan425
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It’s time to evict big-time sports from American higher education
What a new and refreshing idea.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 5:48 am to bamafan425
Patrick Hruby over at Sports On Earth has been writing about this for a while now.
His solution, however, is one of reform. Pay the athletes above the table. Drop the charade of amateurism. Get rid of the bullshite majors and just be real about it.
Here's his article and blog archive: LINK /
His solution, however, is one of reform. Pay the athletes above the table. Drop the charade of amateurism. Get rid of the bullshite majors and just be real about it.
Here's his article and blog archive: LINK /
Posted on 1/2/14 at 8:56 am to bamafan425
I'm going to guess that this douche uses terms like "rape culture" and "jingoism" on a regular basis.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 10:19 am to bamafan425
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fricking liberals
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