Are you mad???
Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life - save only this - if you work hard and diligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.
I'd much rather abolish majors that have ceased in any way to teach student how to detect when men are talking rot than abolish those that don't contribute global economic competitiveness.
Please don’t read the articles posted, so you can write your own stupidities contradicting what’s stated there in. Yes sir, college athletics bring money to the universities. Here’s what the article stated:
“According to the NCAA, 43% of the 120 schools in the Football Bowl Subdivision lost money on their programs.”
Nick Saban makes obscene money and the players don’t benefit??? This guy didn’t watch the draft or watch the guys who signed with teams after draft day.
Cheers!
Are you mad???
Publishing articles about what should be but never realistically will should be banned!
I’m not so impressed with the universities themselves. I’d vote to keep the football and ban the universities.
Or, I suppose Buzz could start his own college and then he can ban anything he wants.
I’m never surprised at the people who think they should have the authority to ban whatever it is you’re doing. But I like to keep them as far from the levers of power as I possibly can.
I finished my undergrad studies at UCSD: NO intercollegiate sports, NO fraternities or sororities. The institution grew out of the Scripps Research Institute, and it was almost entirely concerned with the hard sciences.
Despite the overall liberal bent it had then and has even more of now, I could not have been happier to have studied at a true institute of higher learning. You can take all the intercollegiate sports and other crap that corrupts an academic atmosphere and flush it all down the toilet as far as I’m concerned.
I don’t know about banning college football, but I’ve long believed that the NCAA is little more than a well-organized racket whose sole purpose is to make a perversion out of amateur athletics while running a large business operation.
Of course I am Michigan fan, so I could be a little biased.
People who want to ban things like this are de facto morons. I don’t care what their justification or bona fides are...
Although, I think the corruption in colleges is real. More from government spigots than anything their amature sports teams engage in...
“Wrestling taught me some valuable lessons ... I always figured I could hold my own against the best in the world. It made me tough. Many times, I drew on that strength. It’s an inappropriate crutch perhaps, but that’s the way I’m made”.
I know the specific subject is college football, but this quote may help put the whole college athletics question into perspective.
Who said it?
Norman Borlaug http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2879372/posts
“Norman Borlaug arguably the greatest American of the 20th century died late Saturday (2009) after 95 richly accomplished years. The very personification of human goodness, Borlaug saved more lives than anyone who has ever lived.”
BTW, the first quote is from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug
The University of Chicago came to that very conclusion in 1939 and disbanded their football program.
And it wasn’t just any football program; under Amos Alonzo Stagg Chicago was one of the great powerhouses of college football.
But Chicago’s empty football facility didn’t entirely fade from history. Three years later physicists of the Manhattan Project created the first controlled nuclear reaction under the grandstands as they worked towards building the atomic bomb.
Ban Buzz!
And eating! Think of all the time and money we waste on that irrational venture when all we need is Mama Michelle's feeding center nutritional slop.
We should all be dull cyborgs engaging in mechanically induced sexual orgasms as we work in the elite's globalist serfdom.
This is sarcasm for the dimwitted.
It’s inevitable that the pipeline will dry up.