Obama says NCAA should require schools to give guaranteed scholarships
The Obamanationcontinues to dictate. Now he pushes free tickets for college. All you have to do is dupe them into offering it to you, then ooppsss... you can't play anymore...but still get the goodies. Maybe he should try one thing right, instead of 20 things wrong.....loser... He loves to tell everyone else why they need to give away their stuff, or owe it to someone, or just plain ought to do this or that. Ack....
Talking junk when the world is going to Hell
Some people say George Bush is to blame
But I know
It can't be my fault.
I think every damn thing this guy has done is by design.
HEY OBLABBERMOUTH, how about instead of buying that 9 million dollar estate in Hawaii, where Magnum P.I. was filmed you GIVE that money to your "Socio-Econmically-Disadvantaged-Inner-Citty-Youths." A.K.A. Poor Black Kids, and STOP telling others how to spend THE HARD EARNED product of their labor.
Scholarship, big deal, if you can fog a mirror you can get a student loan, and if you don't want to, there is the armed forces... The advertisers have always wanted to go straight to the athletes and not deal with the NCAA, let them and they can pay their own tuition and take the corruption out of the multi-million dollar coach endorsements and 8-figure university salaries at the same time and the kid could even get their own health coverage.
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Some silly person with a beard follows. Feel free to ignore that. I did.
Hey, that changed after I pasted. Now Obama is the Biblical Beast.
I watched it a third time. It's a different video about Barack being the Antichrist.
Oh, well, see what you get after the bobble . . .
It is suprisingly common for new coaches to not renew scholarships for athletes for athletic performance reasons. I can understand this except in the case where a student gets injured in their sport. Florida Tech had a very modest athletic program until about 7 or 8 years ago. We now have a lot of students who were high school athletes and at the top of their academic class, but weren't good enough athletically to get Division I athletic scholarships. They have been student-athletes, as opposed to athlete-students, and it has worked out well, even for those who get injured. Several of my students have been injured in athletic competition in recent years, most notably a rash of ACL injuries.
This is a rare point where I will agree with Obama on anything, but only in the case where the student-athlete gets injured in his/her sport. Certainly I disagree with him in general on this topic.
Jan
I've always been somewhat against athletic scholarships as they stand. They're potentially taking a seat from someone in a classroom who'd actually do something with math, sciences, humanities, etc. the solution of course is both simple and obvious. Create a new degree--Bachelor of Athletics--with a minor in baseball, basketball, football, whatever. That way they'd have a degree in their chosen field. However, the degree would garner all of the respect due a potholder in any field beyond athletics.
It doesn't take money to gain a reputation for producing the world's finest engineers; it takes the ability to produce the world's finest engineers, and no amount of football (or baseball or basketball) scholarships will alter that fact.
Indeed it does take ability to produce the world's finest engineers, and we do our best. I can take someone who could compete at a top ten school and prepare that person into the next John Galt. In fact, I have one such protege. More often, I take those who are talented enough, but not the world's elite, and mold them into engineers who can compete against the world's best at the undergraduate level.
However, without the equipment base in place, you will not attract the world's best talent at the graduate level. That is part of the reason I have advertised in the Marketplace.
We get some of the world's best talent, and quite a bit of talent from the progeny of those who are the world's wealthiest. When your competition is not only subsidized, but you are forced to subsidize it, you cannot be the world's best. It takes money and infrastructure to attract the world's best graduate students. We have some infrastructure, but not nearly the vast research infrastructure that most of the State Science Institutes do.
My university did make it into the world's top 200 and is the youngest to make it there. Academically, my university is much like one of the Cinderella college basketball teams that pulls off a major upset once in a while, and yes, we can compete at that level. Without the endowment of an Ivy League school or the state support like The University of Florida, getting into the top 200 in the world (according to The London Times) in less than 60 years is unprecedented.
Finally, and most importantly for me, I am putting a handicap on myself. I am not going after State Science Institute money any more. That is a contradiction that I morally cannot tolerate. Those who have no such moral quandary about taking looted money are thus at an advantage over me.
Now that's a statement that could be used to describe many situations today. In some cases we are being forced to subsidize our own destruction
In the case of a state university, that trade involves a third participant - the taxpayer - whose only return on investment is the vicarious enjoyment of their football or basketball teams. In most cases, the taxpayers do not get value for value, and they certainly have no say in the matter as their "contribution" is taken by force. In my case, in particular, this "contribution" is especially egregious because it improves my competition at my expense. Having to do so is like unwilling participation in the Steel Unification Act or the Railroad Unification Act.
By the way, Florida taxpayers pay the 6th highest percentage of moocher college students' tuition (read state schools) of the 50 states. Until Rick Scott became governor (someone I detest despite his alleged conservatism because he and his cronies started a state university with virtually the same name as ours - Florida Polytechnic Institute), Florida taxpayers had the 2nd highest such percentage to pay.
I'll leave you the last word.
Jan
The vast majority of athletes are not taking places from otherwise qualified students because most of such students are in sports than consume revenue rather than generate it.
I am not opposed to such a Bachelor of Athletics. It is usually called a B.A. or B.S. in Physical Education.