Quote:
Originally posted by Betarulz!
I don't need the same type of help they need, but the help they're getting is allowing them to get a college education that they might have never had the chance to get otherwise, and isn't that the point?
|
I suppose...
Unless, of course, you take into consideration the ones who are just hanging around because the NFL doesn't have a high school draft. Gotta have some time to build up that resume, you know.
Or maybe the ones who just hang around long enough to build that reputation and drop out and join the draft early.
Your own comment has strengthened my my feeling about the situation(s). Isn't your 34 on the ACT a much better reason for being in college than scoring a triple-double? Isn't college supposed to be about learning and academics? Or is college about the big business of sports?
Which one should it be?
Why should they admit people who don't meet the entrance requirements you and I had to meet? Why should they get tutors free when others don't?
I was an adjunct faculty member at Colorado for several years and had a few athletes in my class. Some were good students, some were awful. I didn't seem to have any "average" ones.
I have to say in all honesty, though, that for the most part I haven't been at all impressed with most of the college and professional athletes I've met.
And I've met hundreds of them.