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Do you feel colleges should be granting scholarships to, and/or making provisions for, kids who have a lackluster GPA, but are exceptional with a ball?
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How do you feel about Athletic Scholarships?
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Re: How do you feel about Athletic Scholarships?
by Forgiveness Man Sat Mar 05, 2011 10:13 am
IDK why they should in all honesty. I kind of don't see the overall need.
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Chris wrote:Do you feel colleges should be granting scholarships to, and/or making provisions for, kids who have a lackluster GPA, but are exceptional with a ball?
Too often it's a corrupt system but because of the revenue it does generate for large colleges it probably won't change.
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Chris wrote:Do you feel colleges should be granting scholarships to, and/or making provisions for, kids who have a lackluster GPA, but are exceptional with a ball?
Theoretically, they shouldn't.....but they make the schools money, so financially....it's genius. You can only hope the players would be *smart* enough to take advantage of it.
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No, I don't get the correlation between athletics and higher education. Scholarships should be based on ones academic potential - giving a chance to those smart poor kids who would miss out otherwise.
Of course as pointed out it is just an excuse to get some large bruiser on a football field to make a winning team for the school's image amongst contributors. A shallow sellout.
Of course as pointed out it is just an excuse to get some large bruiser on a football field to make a winning team for the school's image amongst contributors. A shallow sellout.
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Shale wrote:No, I don't get the correlation between athletics and higher education. Scholarships should be based on ones academic potential - giving a chance to those smart poor kids who would miss out otherwise.
Of course as pointed out it is just an excuse to get some large bruiser on a football field to make a winning team for the school's image amongst contributors. A shallow sellout.
You're not an athletic supporter, Shale?
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I've sniffed a few. Depends on how cute the hunk was.alan smithee wrote:
You're not an athletic supporter, Shale?
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Re: How do you feel about Athletic Scholarships?
by MandyPerfumeGirl Sat Mar 05, 2011 2:41 pm
Athletic Scholarships? No. Free money should be given to kids who actually apply themselves in the classroom, not for some dumb jock who can't find Montana on a map.
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I'm fine with athletic scholarships IF the kids have decent grades throughout the length of their scholarship.
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I don't know what the rules are for these things, but in general I think every student there on an athletic scholarship should have at least a 2.5 GPA. Fuck a superior wide receiver....who off the field is a borderline D-student. Let him find another way to be scouted.
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As somebody else said, the money they bring in is the issue and it is what it is. I do think they should have to maintain a certain GPA, less any "favors" from professors.
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Big business for colleges and they don't bother me that much. Not everyone is excessively book smart, and if being able to run with a ball is the talent of some big oaf who otherwise would be limited to a minimum wage sweeping job, then so be it.
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The problem is too many of those big oafs are going to wind up in minimum wage jobs anyway because the chance of making it as a pro athlete are remote. They're just being used and discarded. The problem doesn’t start in college. Star H.S. athletes who read at a fifth grade level are routinely passed.
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