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....
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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.
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.
Jan
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.
I think every damn thing this guy has done is by design.
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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