The Case Against Athletic Recruting

Athletic Recruits
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<p>The Case Against College Athletic Recruiting - Newsweek - Education</p>

<p>What do you think?</p>

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<p>[The</a> Case Against College Athletic Recruiting - Newsweek - Education](<a href=“http://education.newsweek.com/2010/09/22/the-case-against-college-athletic-recruiting.html]The”>http://education.newsweek.com/2010/09/22/the-case-against-college-athletic-recruiting.html)</p>

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<p>While the article briefly mentions Williams, Amherst, and Harvard, the author seems to be complaining mostly about D1 football and basketball scholarships at the powerhouse schools.</p>

<p>It’s similar to the anti-athlete stuff I sometimes read on CC outside of this subforum. It’s easy to assume that many/most D1 football and basketball players are academically underqualified. It’s easy to resent student-athletes who have an easier time with elite college admissions. It’s also easy to conflate these two things into a belief that HYPS level recruited athletes are undeserving “dumb jocks”.</p>

<p>Just don’t talk that way around the father of an Ivy League Championship ring-wearing, academic top quintile at best college in the land (with all due respect to HYS) student.</p>

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<p>This article actually makes me really angry. I don’t think I have ever read a profesionally published article with so many assumptions. The writer should be fired.</p>

<p>“So perhaps it’s time for tennis players and golfers to go back to the country clubs where they practiced as children so colleges can focus on what they are supposed to.”</p>

<p>The author should be ashamed of himself for writing such slander without so much as numeric evidence to back up his claims that overall athletes are underqualified for their respective schools. We have all heard of that kid with barely a 3.0 going to Stanford for football, but those athletes really and truly are few and far between. But how would he know: it seems his eyes aren’t even open.</p>

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<p>Article was a drag. That Tigers face-paint is pretty freaking awesome though!!!</p>

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<p>Oohh - ouch. “outdated and unpopular sports like golf or rowing?” :-O!!!</p>

<p>Well, clearly my daughter chose her sport unwisely, there seems to be very little money in it although it would be a hook into a school she might otherwise get closed out of.</p>

<p>That said, none of the schools she is looking at would consider her off of their radar in the first place, the sport is just a benefit. I do believe that it is true that athletes have lower academics than other students - has that not been proven? But they also bring excitement and add diversity to the school. I just read through that cumbersome blog-type article by the man who took his football player son on a tour of all the Eastern colleges - interesting comment he made about Swarthmore and athletics, his was sort of the anti- to this article.</p>

<p>These are all just rampant generalizations. But I wouldn’t send my daughter to a school for which I didn’t feel she was academically qualified. But some sports open doors in the after-world, such as football. But why do they all major in economics? I never would have thought …</p>

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<p>NEVER GONNA HAPPEN ANYWAY, so why waste any angst?</p>

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<p>This article seems to mix apples and oranges—</p>

<p>–talking about a heavy # of athletes in the uber selective schools
–yelling about the anti-semetic purposes
–and then moving on to rant about the flagship schools etc and all of the athletes who are cheating or doing poorly etc…
–and then moving on to rant about the $Ks spent on the sports in those flagships…and the scholarships…</p>

<p>it doesn’t make sense…he is trying to tie together kids in the ivies (who dont get athletic scholarhips and must have the academic stats)
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the kids who get into the schools/get the $</p>

<p>He forgot to mention the NCAA sliding scale for academics/test scores.
If he wants to see change–raise those standards…</p>

<p>Perhaps the author had a bad gym teacher?</p>