Let's do away with all high school and college sports programs.

[task0778]

Maybe you're full of shit. Athletics don't prevent students from studying hard and getting good grades. Quite the contrary.

Then why the hell do we need athletic scholarships? Earn a scholarship in the classroom, not on the playing field or court. Let me ask you a question: do you believe there are some kids who pin their hopes on an athletic scholarship and therefore are not studying as hard as they should to get an academic scholarship? How many kids don't get the athletic scholarship and have nothing to fall back on? I think that option ought to be off the table, and if you want to be successful then do it the same way a 98 lb weakling has to do it.

 

[task0778]

Typical 98lbs weakling who wants to believe that being athletic means one is not "college material." What an insecure douche.

That is not what I said and definitely not what I meant. Fuck off, dude. You're being quite the asshole today.

 

[Unkotare]

Then why the hell do we need athletic scholarships? ....

Why the hell do we need academic scholarships? Certain exceptional students represent value to a given university.

 

[Unkotare]

... do you believe there are some kids who pin their hopes on an athletic scholarship and therefore are not studying as hard as they should to get an academic scholarship? ....

Most kids like that don't end up getting either one. YOU feeling inferior to athletic students doesn't make YOU smarter or THEM dumber.

 

[Blaster]

Proof? Link? BS?

Coach accused of giving student steroids, student told pills were protein, amino acid

Sheriff's deputies say a Donaldsonville High School teacher and coach is accused of giving steroids to a 16-year-old student athlete.

www.wwltv.com

 

[Unkotare]

That is not what I said and definitely not what I meant. ....

Sure seems like it.

 

[Unkotare]

Coach accused of giving student steroids, student told pills were protein, amino acid

Sheriff's deputies say a Donaldsonville High School teacher and coach is accused of giving steroids to a 16-year-old student athlete.

www.wwltv.com

ONE?

 

[BackAgain]

Women's sports are more popular than ever.

Especially when the male competitors kick their assess and shatter their records.

 

[Harry Dresden]

How much do you think it is?

IUs entire athletic program ran at a $5.6 million surplus, for example. And they were ecstatic not to LOSE money.

That surplus is earmarked to maintain the athletic facilities.

if they stop them will they lose money or not?....

 

[AMart]

do you realize how much money the school loses if they are done away with?....

Universities don't make a profit on sports. They generally spend everything they bring in. The non P4 programs subsidize their sports, from 20 to 50 million year, by charging non scholly students. It's in their tuition payments, sometimes even a line item.

 

[AMart]

Back in the day when I grew up.
Before video games and the internet.
The parks and school sport fields were always filed with kids.
Today when I drive by those same parks and fields.
They are completely empty.
Not a kid to be seen.

True

 

[elektra]

The state champion High School shooter in Idaho is a female.
But she had one of those 10000 dollar shotguns to do it.

A 10,000 dollar shotgun does not make anyone a champion. I would be willing to bet she could beat you, or me with a musket.

I once got beat at pool, when I was fair at the game, by a guy using a broom stick.

 

[Blaster]

ONE?

There are others.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

The state champion High School shooter in Idaho is a female.
But she had one of those 10000 dollar shotguns to do it.

Shotgun?

 

[Unkotare]

Universities don't make a profit on sports. They generally spend everything they bring in. The non P4 programs subsidize their sports, from 20 to 50 million year, by charging non scholly students. It's in their tuition payments, sometimes even a line item.

And alumni donations? And school merchandize? And (athletic and non) recruiting? etc.

 

[Unkotare]

True

Check out different fields. The ones around here are packed. Took my boys out this past weekend, and there were loads of people out and about.

 

[Unkotare]

A 10,000 dollar shotgun does not make anyone a champion. I would be willing to bet she could beat you, or me with a musket.

I once got beat at pool, when I was fair at the game, by a guy using a broom stick.

But could he clean the floor?

 

[San Souci]

Women's sports are more popular than ever.

Good. Keep the sick perverts OUT of Womens Sports. Trannies are NOT Women.

 

[braalian]

High school football is a source of revenue for the schools

And the very last things kids today need is less physical activity

 

[braalian]

Then why the hell do we need athletic scholarships? Earn a scholarship in the classroom, not on the playing field or court. Let me ask you a question: do you believe there are some kids who pin their hopes on an athletic scholarship and therefore are not studying as hard as they should to get an academic scholarship? How many kids don't get the athletic scholarship and have nothing to fall back on? I think that option ought to be off the table, and if you want to be successful then do it the same way a 98 lb weakling has to do it.

The existence of athletic scholarships doesn’t prevent anyone from earning an academic scholarship

And those kids who earned an athletic scholarship worked their asses off 100% as much as the ones who earned an academic one