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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 760417" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>Here's Tech's problem. This is an excerpt from John Thompson's posthumous biography:</p><p></p><p>"College sports has a lot of hypocrisy. I believe it’s time for the N.C.A.A. to stop pretending that education is its top priority and pay college athletes.</p><p></p><p>Universities are supposed to be educational institutions, but for too many of them, their self-worth is tied to winning. When you win, you make more TV money. The school receives more alumni donations and student applications. Local businesses fill up with more customers. Enrollment increases, which brings more revenue.</p><p></p><p>The N.C.A.A. is run by universities, so it has a conflict of interest between education and money. We all know how that conflict turns out. I once spoke to a meeting of athletic directors and told them, “All you administrators preach education, but you vote money. When it’s time to make rules, you vote for the rules that will make everybody the most money.” I’m not saying that voting money is bad. I’m saying let’s call it what it is. Capitalism is the system we operate in. College basketball is subject to the laws of supply and demand.</p><p></p><p>The amateurism of big-time college sports is antiquated and needs to be redefined. We shouldn’t act like going to college is a religious experience for everybody. The best basketball players right now are not going to college for an education. They are going to college for less than a year to make millions in the pros, which can be a smart decision. Pretty soon, very few of the best players will attend college at all. Most of them will go straight to the N.B.A., the G League or overseas — or just stay home and work out."</p><p></p><p>(I couldn't include the URL for this because the title of the post includes words on the forbidden list.)</p><p></p><p>This is true, even at Tech, but an open admission of it and adoption of what TheJuice is talking about would as good as guarantee that many students and faculty now coming to Tech would begin to think about MIT or CalTech instead. Admitting that winning in sports was at the center of Tech's reputation could - would is too strong - scare off a lot of the research money Tech currently generates for the state as well. There's no reason for Georgia to take that risk and I don't think that the people who decide these questions at Tech - the administration and faculty - would go along with it anyway. Most of the students probably don't care that much one way or the other, but they would rebel at anything that would diminish the value of their degree.</p><p></p><p>I admit that this is speculative; UNC has suffered less then I would have suspected for graduating illiterates from its athletic program. (I suspect that this is because it is the state's public flagship; sorta like Ugag where similar shenanigans have been overlooked for decades.) But I think the speculation is real enough at TStan's office.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 760417, member: 265"] Here's Tech's problem. This is an excerpt from John Thompson's posthumous biography: "College sports has a lot of hypocrisy. I believe it’s time for the N.C.A.A. to stop pretending that education is its top priority and pay college athletes. Universities are supposed to be educational institutions, but for too many of them, their self-worth is tied to winning. When you win, you make more TV money. The school receives more alumni donations and student applications. Local businesses fill up with more customers. Enrollment increases, which brings more revenue. The N.C.A.A. is run by universities, so it has a conflict of interest between education and money. We all know how that conflict turns out. I once spoke to a meeting of athletic directors and told them, “All you administrators preach education, but you vote money. When it’s time to make rules, you vote for the rules that will make everybody the most money.” I’m not saying that voting money is bad. I’m saying let’s call it what it is. Capitalism is the system we operate in. College basketball is subject to the laws of supply and demand. The amateurism of big-time college sports is antiquated and needs to be redefined. We shouldn’t act like going to college is a religious experience for everybody. The best basketball players right now are not going to college for an education. They are going to college for less than a year to make millions in the pros, which can be a smart decision. Pretty soon, very few of the best players will attend college at all. Most of them will go straight to the N.B.A., the G League or overseas — or just stay home and work out." (I couldn't include the URL for this because the title of the post includes words on the forbidden list.) This is true, even at Tech, but an open admission of it and adoption of what TheJuice is talking about would as good as guarantee that many students and faculty now coming to Tech would begin to think about MIT or CalTech instead. Admitting that winning in sports was at the center of Tech's reputation could - would is too strong - scare off a lot of the research money Tech currently generates for the state as well. There's no reason for Georgia to take that risk and I don't think that the people who decide these questions at Tech - the administration and faculty - would go along with it anyway. Most of the students probably don't care that much one way or the other, but they would rebel at anything that would diminish the value of their degree. I admit that this is speculative; UNC has suffered less then I would have suspected for graduating illiterates from its athletic program. (I suspect that this is because it is the state's public flagship; sorta like Ugag where similar shenanigans have been overlooked for decades.) But I think the speculation is real enough at TStan's office. [/QUOTE]
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