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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 533097" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>Ok, we may have to do it, but this whole process is symbolic of what's wrong with college sports. </p><p></p><p>Universities and colleges are <em>educational</em> institutions. The money we spend on sports is counter-productive. Sooner or later - let it be sooner - we will go back to funding post-secondary education at the level needed to catch the US up to other developed countries (our rate of college completion among college age young people is <em>19th</em> among the 34 OECD countries). That will mean some refocusing of educational expenditures at all levels of government, including infrastructural spending for sports facilities and other indirect subsidies to college sports. Let the fans support the athletic associations as they already do, but if they want to get athletes in on faux scholarships or get facilities built, the answer should be no. We need the money for other and, from a public policy standpoint, <em>much</em> more important things. </p><p></p><p>I'll miss big time college sports, but I wouldn't lift a finger to stop changes that would get rid of them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 533097, member: 265"] Ok, we may have to do it, but this whole process is symbolic of what's wrong with college sports. Universities and colleges are [I]educational[/I] institutions. The money we spend on sports is counter-productive. Sooner or later - let it be sooner - we will go back to funding post-secondary education at the level needed to catch the US up to other developed countries (our rate of college completion among college age young people is [I]19th[/I] among the 34 OECD countries). That will mean some refocusing of educational expenditures at all levels of government, including infrastructural spending for sports facilities and other indirect subsidies to college sports. Let the fans support the athletic associations as they already do, but if they want to get athletes in on faux scholarships or get facilities built, the answer should be no. We need the money for other and, from a public policy standpoint, [I]much[/I] more important things. I'll miss big time college sports, but I wouldn't lift a finger to stop changes that would get rid of them. [/QUOTE]
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