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<blockquote data-quote="ATL1" data-source="post: 25341" data-attributes="member: 26"><p>This is a very sensitive subject for me. Borderline pimpish /plantation economics. </p><p>Do I expect the majority of fans and even average students to care about the athletes personal lives and situations. No</p><p>But when the athletes provide the schools so much in the form of revenues, exposure, and quality of life for these institutions, yet the majority of these athletes receive very little back. </p><p>I realize the personal responsibility angle and these kids are provided the opportunity for a free education, but there's a caveat;</p><p>1. That assumes these students can comprehend the education that is supposedly provided for them. (If they are reading on a 5th grade level the answer is No)</p><p>2. That these institutions willfully and knowingly admit these kids knowing that wouldn't comprehend the education but only for the benefit of their athletic department. That is the exploitation and I find if borderline criminal. </p><p></p><p>Do these institutions provide these kids with any advanced level coaching, program, or plan to get them to catch up or even attempt to make them a sustainable student most likely no. It's highly immoral to me and another reason I'm so solid a Tech fan and I hope the school will continue to have some ethics in this regard, keep it's integrity, and not become like one of these factories.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ATL1, post: 25341, member: 26"] This is a very sensitive subject for me. Borderline pimpish /plantation economics. Do I expect the majority of fans and even average students to care about the athletes personal lives and situations. No But when the athletes provide the schools so much in the form of revenues, exposure, and quality of life for these institutions, yet the majority of these athletes receive very little back. I realize the personal responsibility angle and these kids are provided the opportunity for a free education, but there's a caveat; 1. That assumes these students can comprehend the education that is supposedly provided for them. (If they are reading on a 5th grade level the answer is No) 2. That these institutions willfully and knowingly admit these kids knowing that wouldn't comprehend the education but only for the benefit of their athletic department. That is the exploitation and I find if borderline criminal. Do these institutions provide these kids with any advanced level coaching, program, or plan to get them to catch up or even attempt to make them a sustainable student most likely no. It's highly immoral to me and another reason I'm so solid a Tech fan and I hope the school will continue to have some ethics in this regard, keep it's integrity, and not become like one of these factories. [/QUOTE]
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