The NCAA - A Cancer in Education

[Dot Com]

The schools should be involved in education. There is a place for amateur sports in our society, but the link with schools (at all levels, not just college) is perverse and destructive. It not only compromises the schools and diverts their attention from the theoretical mission, but it does not optimize the development of our top athletes. In sports where Americans compete on equal footing with other countries (soccer, tennis), we suck.

Paying college athletes is even more ridiculous. If they are good enough to play professionally, then create "minor" leagues where they can play professionally, and leave the schools out of it.

True. Anyone w/ firing synapse' should be able to see that except for the sports junkies (mouth-breathers)

Anyone over the age of 25 who still watches young men run around playing ball is See Penn State

 

[Unkotare]

NCAA: Making slavery acceptable since 1906

What do you call performing ethnic minorities entertaining whites who also make lots of money off their performances but who can't be paid for their performances?

Seem to recall this very practice being a thing in ancient Rome with slaves fighting other slaves for the enjoyment of their owners.

Ignorant troll post ^

 

[Delta4Embassy]

NCAA: Making slavery acceptable since 1906

What do you call performing ethnic minorities entertaining whites who also make lots of money off their performances but who can't be paid for their performances?

Seem to recall this very practice being a thing in ancient Rome with slaves fighting other slaves for the enjoyment of their owners.

Ignorant troll post ^

Uh ya.

NCAA Football And Universities Are Modern-Day Plantations News One

"NCAA Football And Universities Are Modern-Day Plantations"

Why It s Okay to Compare College Athletes to Slaves The Atlantic

Expose the NCAA not the athletes - College Football News FOX Sports on MSN

"The architect of the modern NCAA, the organization’s former president, Walter Byers, spelled out all of this in his 1997 mea culpa, “Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Exploiting the Student-Athlete.”"

Who's ignorant now?

 

[Manonthestreet]

How bout we get back to having standards..... If ya don't belong in college ya don't get a scholarship just so you can play.

 

[Moonglow]

The college makes money off of games, you will never get it to stop until the money stops rolling in...

 

[Manonthestreet]

That money goes to TitleIX Sports. Now if you want to cancel every sport in college that doesn't pay for itselff go ahead........ Local sports radio had Glenn Mason comment on this subject last yr. Wish I could find it.

 

[Manonthestreet]

BTW with cost of college these days scholarship is pretty good wages for part time job.. Don't like it fine. Someone else will take your free ride.

 

[DGS49]

Division 3.

No scholarships.

For everybody. No cheating.

Would the alumni continue to support the schools' athletic programs if the teams were actually comprised of students? Would the TV networks continue to cover the games?

The creation of minor leagues for football and basketball would siphon off some interest, but as mentioned above, most college sports programs lose money anyway, and if you take away the scholarships the expensive coaches and whatnot, they will probably lose less.

 

[Unkotare]

NCAA: Making slavery acceptable since 1906

What do you call performing ethnic minorities entertaining whites who also make lots of money off their performances but who can't be paid for their performances?

Seem to recall this very practice being a thing in ancient Rome with slaves fighting other slaves for the enjoyment of their owners.

Ignorant troll post ^

Uh ya.

NCAA Football And Universities Are Modern-Day Plantations News One

"NCAA Football And Universities Are Modern-Day Plantations"

Why It s Okay to Compare College Athletes to Slaves The Atlantic

Expose the NCAA not the athletes - College Football News FOX Sports on MSN

"The architect of the modern NCAA, the organization’s former president, Walter Byers, spelled out all of this in his 1997 mea culpa, “Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Exploiting the Student-Athlete.”"

Who's ignorant now?

Still you. The vast , vast majority of NCAA students-athletes are not pampered nor exploited. They really are student athletes.

 

[WinterBorn]

The schools should be involved in education. There is a place for amateur sports in our society, but the link with schools (at all levels, not just college) is perverse and destructive. It not only compromises the schools and diverts their attention from the theoretical mission, but it does not optimize the development of our top athletes. In sports where Americans compete on equal footing with other countries (soccer, tennis), we suck.

Paying college athletes is even more ridiculous. If they are good enough to play professionally, then create "minor" leagues where they can play professionally, and leave the schools out of it.

Absolute nonsense.

First of all, many schools have plenty of student athletes who not only do well, but excel in academics. The University of Alabama football program has a higher graduation rate than the national average for all college students.

And only a tiny minority of college athletes go on to play professionally.