It’s way worse than that, I’ve known quite a few college athletes over the years, the average student athlete will drop out their junior year because they either run out of scholarship funds or realize they just aren’t good enough for a professional league and cut their losses. This is also due to the majority of athletes getting put in high school plus degrees they know are worthless but have very low in seat and time demands so they can focus on athletics. This is by design in many colleges who have “academic requirements” but that means getting a C or better in a high school algebra class.
My university had college courses explicitly for college athletes. Basically, a slow class, who's entire structure was built around the sports industry (assuming that they would have to go into that, rather than drop out. None of the theoretical knowledge needed. Most of the work was plug and chug calculations.
It kept the GPA's up, since they would have flunked out of normal classes, and it at least gives them a chance to be skilled enough to do something else in the sports industry, rather than just going home and picking up a retail job after dropping out.
The other scam is they tell professors who have star athletes in them that they can't have attendance requirements, give quizzes, or assign papers and that they can only give a midterm and a final.
A friend of mine went to a school where a big name NBA player graduated from while he was there and people used to clamor to get into classes he was in because they knew there would be zero work done in them.
Unfortunately, there's a big difference between getting fucked, and having the state require your fucking. Typically you can't undo the latter in less than 2 generations.
It's a miracle we've been able to get rid of mask mandates as much as we have.
I'm for it. Too many athletes haven't actually gotten an education. Let them create their own world completely and leave academia to rot.
It’s way worse than that, I’ve known quite a few college athletes over the years, the average student athlete will drop out their junior year because they either run out of scholarship funds or realize they just aren’t good enough for a professional league and cut their losses. This is also due to the majority of athletes getting put in high school plus degrees they know are worthless but have very low in seat and time demands so they can focus on athletics. This is by design in many colleges who have “academic requirements” but that means getting a C or better in a high school algebra class.
My university had college courses explicitly for college athletes. Basically, a slow class, who's entire structure was built around the sports industry (assuming that they would have to go into that, rather than drop out. None of the theoretical knowledge needed. Most of the work was plug and chug calculations.
It kept the GPA's up, since they would have flunked out of normal classes, and it at least gives them a chance to be skilled enough to do something else in the sports industry, rather than just going home and picking up a retail job after dropping out.
The other scam is they tell professors who have star athletes in them that they can't have attendance requirements, give quizzes, or assign papers and that they can only give a midterm and a final.
A friend of mine went to a school where a big name NBA player graduated from while he was there and people used to clamor to get into classes he was in because they knew there would be zero work done in them.
Public sector unions are the worst.
This would guarantee that college athletes will continue to get nothing of profit from any college sport.
Likely, but the schools were doing that anyway.
Unfortunately, there's a big difference between getting fucked, and having the state require your fucking. Typically you can't undo the latter in less than 2 generations.
It's a miracle we've been able to get rid of mask mandates as much as we have.