Posted on 03/14/2019 6:33:00 PM PDT by markomalley
There are smart athletes and dumb athletes. At high school and college they are called student athletes not athlete students. Education should always come first. Some colleges have lost sight of that. Add
The athletes spend 30-40 hours/week practicing their sport. If their GPAs suffer, then no wonder.
With that said, I wouldn’t mind if there were no college-level sports teams.
colleges don’t have to have sports teams It’s tradition and tradition is hard to break. Basketball and Football were invented on campuses.
It would be easy to have club or city teams or minor league football. They just need to change the paradigm
Agreed. The same with high school-level teams.
Athletes still could receive college scholarships from their teams, but the teams shouldn’t have to be affiliated with a college.
The acceptance rate for next year’s FR class is 13%.
Agree. All those hours it’s like having a full time job.
According to Nypost, Singer also lied about the ethnic background of the cansidates.
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