Posted on 10/22/2014 12:25:03 PM PDT by fungoking
““except Obama’s autobiography
I wonder if he could read it?”
He read the real one, one blank page
This “shadow curriculum” is probably followed at every college in the country that has athletic scholarships. You only have to hear many college and pro athletes stumble through interviews to realize there’s no way the great majority of them could pass a legitimate college course.
Have you ever worked with University faculty? Especially entitled ones? This is a problem at most good Division 1 Schools. This doesn’t in any way excuse the Athletics department or the University, but when it reaches a Chancellor’s office there’s a couple ways to play it. They played it right,they commissioned the report.
That’s about as likely as Obama writing it!
According to a NCAA study, only two sports were reported by any university as being profitable:
Football
Men’s Basketball
http://www.ncaapublications.com/productdownloads/REV_EXP_2010.pdf
And then there is UCONN basketball. Coaches come away with personal millions.
You’d have to know more about architecture school.
You’d have to know more about Andrew Luck.
Andrew Luck’s Father (Oliver Luck) was a Rhodes Scholar finalist.
They start training basketball players when they are three years old. They practice and play basketball year round. They meet the best players in their age group at national tournaments when they are thirteen. What is a college coach going to teach them?
After their other Chancellor quit?
Doesn’t matter, really.
They deserve the SMU/PSU/MN treatment. (pick one)
And football and men's basketball are money losers at many schools. It's only the biggies with rich television contracts that make much money.
This is what drives the Title IX follies. Most collegiate sports are subsidized. There is a case to be made for the equalization of subsidies. That said, I suspect the Title IX fuss is less about scholarship money for athletes than it is about coaching, training, and administrative positions for adult women who want to make careers in athletics. Like so much else that is messed up in education, it's all about the adults, not the students.
If it were up to me, I'd return all collegiate sports to a club level. Pay coaches and trainers regular adjunct faculty salaries, ban recruiting, and play natural geographic rivals to eliminate big travel expenses. If men's basketball and football manage to turn a profit, throw a nice team trip (or schedule a few out-of-region games), and put the rest of the money into the college's general fund.
Okay, I hear you.
It’s just that I’ve seen such thing handled poorly and its a real cluster f***
Back when I was in college there weren't any "black studies" courses. Instead, the athletes majored in "physical education," which was a set of bogus courses to keep them "eligible" until, as used to be said in the Tank McNamara comic strip, they'd "used up their eligibility" (i.e., not graduated, but used up four years).
I remember a few years ago I was watching a Big Ten bb game featuring Ohio St. and some other school. One of the announcers started talking about college athletes and graduating. He mentioned the name of a black Ohio St. player who was so proud to be the first person in his family to graduate from college. His major?.....you guessed it.... Black Studies. The player wasn’t good enough to make it in the NBA, and now he’s doubly screwed. Not good enough to play pro ball and has a worthless college degree.
Wow - shocked I am.
Your post #19 is correct.
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