Well, you won’t get any sympathy from me for cutting sports. I think ALL sports should be cut out of ALL schools. Sports is utterly useless and teaches nothing. It is a giant waste of money and time in education. There is nothing wrong with sports outside of school but in school it should be eliminated. Want to play sports? Fine. Do it on your own time. Stop wasting education money on sports.
Well, you won’t get any sympathy from me for cutting sports. I think ALL sports should be cut out of ALL schools. Sports is utterly useless and teaches nothing. It is a giant waste of money and time in education. There is nothing wrong with sports outside of school but in school it should be eliminated. Want to play sports? Fine. Do it on your own time. Stop wasting education money on sports.
A school like Cal does not take tax dollars to run the sports programs.
Sports programs are the only entity that brings in revenue to a college. Most of the booster of an athletic program are also the biggest donors to academic programs.
Sports are also the best PR a school can have. Most people could care less about an award-winning horticulturalist who created gay venus fly-traps.....a successful athletic program brings in the attention and the money.
If the colleges did not have sports...most of your colleges would disappear. Even Hillsdale College....pushed by so many radio talkers...has a successful Division II football program
Really?
I have seen some really silly and even stupid posts on here but yours really stands out
I suppose education in Art & Music is wasteful as well and has no place in mental or physical development.
So, bright boy, what would YOUR school teach?
Enlighten us all please
I think sports teach a lot. Leadership skills, competitiveness (which to a point is very good), dedication (hey I had to watch a soccer game in 38 degree weather with a steady wind last week and I wasn’t even a player) and other life skills. Also, when the body is in shape the mind works better as well. I am willing to pay extra out of my pocket for my kids school sports, but really don’t think I should have to. The money is already there if used wisely. There is band, drama, chess club, and lots of other activities for kids not into sports, and many like my kids enjoy many activities. And really, there is nothing like representing your school and home town on the field/ court. Life long memories. I love that my two girls want to play sports.
Now the way some schools choose teams or run their programs— completely different story but I don’t think the remedy is to get rid of sports at school. As to Cal - Berkley, probably just wanted to get rid of
anything “competitive”, after all we are all equal in a socialist utopia, don’t ya know.
While there are some sports of value, this is a value of recreation, not competition. As such, there is little academic value, but a means for students to relax between times.
Yet this points to an even greater problem, of States subsidizing worthless and useless college degrees, with no appreciable career possibilities for such graduates. Since such degrees are frivolous, they should be eliminated from any subsidized education and be for purposes of vanity only, fully paid for by the student or their parents.
It would be simplicity itself to determine which degrees should no longer be subsidized. Simply compare the number of subsidized graduates with a particular degree, to the number who have had successful placement in a degree oriented job within six months after graduation.
If a degree program does not educate for job placement, it should not be subsidized by the taxpayer. The public can no longer afford vanity degrees for the unemployable. Those degrees are superfluous.
At a lot of larger schools, the sports program brings in hundreds of millions of dollars a year to the college. This, in turn reduces tuition and the impact on taxpayers for maintaining the campus, research, and classes there.
I agree completely, FRiend. It is way past time to eliminate the jockstrap mentality from our publicly-funded schools.
What if blogpimping were a sport? How about if there were blogpimping scholarships?
Maybe students should just sit on their fat asses and pimp
lame blogs instead of playing sports. How cool would that be?