<p>This actually points out something a great number of CCers are unaware of, namely that sports at most of the schools in the country (non DivI) are actually used as a recruitment tool for paying students.</p>
<p>In this case these Community Colleges are collecting tuition manly from the federal government in the form of Pell Grants, work study money, and loans that will never be repaid. At the DivIII LACs sports are used to recruit mostly paying middle class kids but even they are not above taking a decent athelete for the money they can shake out of the federal money tree.</p>
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Over the past decade, Minnesota's community colleges have turned more and more to out-of-state players to fill football rosters and bring in money. Last fall, nearly two-thirds of the 628 students who played came from outside the state...</p>
<p>Some were so ill-prepared for college that they quit school without coming close to earning a degree. Others bolted because they were overwhelmed by the weather or by living in a small, predominantly white town a world away from the urban areas where they grew up.</p>
<p>"We are bringing students in who ... are not likely to get a degree in two years, or even make progress in two years," said Larry Oveson, president of the Minnesota Community College Faculty Association.</p>
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What the CCs are really getting are my tax dollars under dubious pretenses. </p>
<p>It doesn't seem like they're doing these students any real favors. I always thought a Community College was for the ... "Community". They seem to be quite liberal in their interpretation of community when it starts to include other states.</p>
<p>Yes, and too liberal in their interpretation of "college" if they are taking in students with no ability to benefit from college-level instruction.</p>
<p>Community Colleges are the minor league for the football factories of the world. They can recruit players out of the CCS that they could never get in through the front door because of the NCAA minimum standards. Additionally they don't have to redshirt them a year to get them physically ready to play so it is a real cheap recruit. The schools that don't take community college recruits -like Tulane, have a really long row to hoe if they want to compete against the LSUs of the world.</p>
<p>Community College recruits also play a big role in Big Time basketball schools some of whom have graduation rates that are truly shockingly low. On the other hand if you see what winning national titles has done for Georgetown and Duke as far as making them atractive places for academically gifted students you will know why big time sports exist with atheletes who would never come close to managing admission at some of the best schools in the country</p>
<p>That's interesting background on how the admission practices of other colleges interact with community college sports. Thanks for teaching me something new today.</p>