“And so, frankly, should major college football and basketball as it exists now, rotten beyond repair, as has been pointed out a thousand times. Totally disconnected from the academic experience, they are insulated kingdoms with their own rules and reigns of terror because of the money they make, trading in illegal recruiting and illegal gifts and illegal favors, and now, thanks to Penn State, alleged sexual abuse of children by a former coach who must have assumed he would always be protected. Just like a Mafia soldier.”
This is the absolute truth. Collegiate athletics ad nothing to the educational process. They are a worthless distraction from what should be a learning process.
I would argue that the liberalism of the college president tolerating homosex has something to do with it.
This wasn’t all about sports, but college liberalism.
I wonder if he would’ve kept his job back then if it was girls.
It´s more than a distraction - it actively corrupts the admissions and learning process, as the University has to go through the motions of pretending to give the “student athletes” a college education. It hurts the students, it hurts the athletes, and it makes little sense.
This is the absolute truth. Collegiate athletics ad nothing to the educational process. They are a worthless distraction from what should be a learning process.
Is the contribution of sports hard to quantify? Yes. But its definitely there. There are many factors that contribute to learning. It doesn’t just take place in the classroom. And I say this as a college professor [computer science] who is not even a big sports fan.