Getting a four-year college degree also means being able to WRITE well, as in term papers, which require research of some kind.
I actually got my B.A. in four years because my parents let me go to school without working. I did work summers and Christmas but those jobs didn't even pay for my books.
Those who cheat on that may get a job, but without the skills of being able to write well, at a college level, they won't KEEP those jobs.
One doesn't need to read to sell/cook burgers--the company uses PICTURES. Nothing wrong with those jobs, as they are decent work, but the athlete HAS to go beyond the 5th grade reading/writing level to EVER get his four-year (120 units of real classes) degree...and thus become a head coach.
LOL...there are college athletes who graduate with a BA or BS who have never set foot in a classroom, never read a book or written a paper.
Excellent post-- and the reason why so many corporation, etc. have their own reading and writing tests as a condition for employment. They cannot count on transcripts or test scores any longer. I had to take a basic reading and writing test to become a beginning teacher in the district I work for. Also, coaches and PE teachers, those who majored in PE, are required to take classes such as physiology and anatomy to satisfy their major. I'm married to a high school coach and he tells me it irritates him to no end when PE majors or coaches are assumed to be idiots who took the easy route in college. College athletes who are lacking in basic skills usually major in communications or ethnic studies, not in PE.
>>One doesn’t need to read to sell/cook burgers—the company uses PICTURES.
I have a friend in the graphics design business who has done that work for Taco Bell and perhaps some others. You are spot on about not having to being able to read to learn how to make fast food. That was a fundamental success criterion for his work.