"I suspect that if the NFL and NBA took over the current college system as their farm team system, the academic corruption would be eliminated."
You would be right in that suspicion. "Better yet colleges can get back to what they do best, teaching and research. More importantly the money these sports costs the universities could be better spent on more important things - academics and facilities for regular students, not pampered athletes." Not going to happen. Universities would end losing lots of money by cutting sports. A lot of alumni would write the university off. No more donations. J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:02 PM, GMoney <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Larry Lyons <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > I'll let you draw the appropriate conclusions. > > > > > My conclusions are: > > - The numbers suggest that in all but only a few cases, the football > program > at most universities costs money, and doesn't have any other real net > benefits to the school or the community beyond giving young kids a chance > to > play football > > - Just giving young kids the opportunity to play football is worth the cost > to the university > > What academics who decry sports are incapable of realizing (and i'm not > putting you in this camp larry), is that while academics are absolutely > vital to helping lead a quality life....sports and other such pleasure > activities are what make that life worth living in the first place. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:341648 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
