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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce Wayne" data-source="post: 92122" data-attributes="member: 231"><p>Jackette I share your anger. I do not like revealing much of anything personal about myself on the internet so am just going to say that I really have a vested interest in higher education both abstractly and as vocation. To me what is done at UNC (still done) and at most every single D1 college with "student" athletes (maybe worse in basketball even) is straight up exploitation. It only gets more uncomfortably sleazy when one looks at the racial and regional dynamics of the people involved. The reason that any of the "pay players" crowd has a leg to stand on at all (and I think they are ultimately vague and misguided in their thinking/proposals) is because of exactly this aspect of the game.</p><p></p><p>You cannot ethically take a kid--even if he is getting under the table booster payola!--and put him in a particular college if he does not belong there simply to exploit his athletic abilities. Nothing at all has changed since Jan Kemp in how supposed institutions of higher learning exploit kids by not providing them with an education or simply keeping them from profitably beginning a career in some field where one doesn't need to go to college if they are <em>just not cut out</em> for the academic challenge. College <em>is not</em> for everyone. The GI Bill and baby boom completely transformed American appreciation for that fundamental fact.</p><p></p><p>But this will never change since the only way to undermine it is to have routes to the pros in football and basketball that do not entail college and the pro players unions will never allow for that (even if the league owners ever wanted to get behind it). It was just as much the reality back when Knute Rockne took George Gipp out of the area pool halls where he spent his days and weeks sharking to play football for Notre Dame on Saturdays. Johnny Manziel may have actually attended more college classes than did the Gipper.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce Wayne, post: 92122, member: 231"] Jackette I share your anger. I do not like revealing much of anything personal about myself on the internet so am just going to say that I really have a vested interest in higher education both abstractly and as vocation. To me what is done at UNC (still done) and at most every single D1 college with "student" athletes (maybe worse in basketball even) is straight up exploitation. It only gets more uncomfortably sleazy when one looks at the racial and regional dynamics of the people involved. The reason that any of the "pay players" crowd has a leg to stand on at all (and I think they are ultimately vague and misguided in their thinking/proposals) is because of exactly this aspect of the game. You cannot ethically take a kid--even if he is getting under the table booster payola!--and put him in a particular college if he does not belong there simply to exploit his athletic abilities. Nothing at all has changed since Jan Kemp in how supposed institutions of higher learning exploit kids by not providing them with an education or simply keeping them from profitably beginning a career in some field where one doesn't need to go to college if they are [I]just not cut out[/I] for the academic challenge. College [I]is not[/I] for everyone. The GI Bill and baby boom completely transformed American appreciation for that fundamental fact. But this will never change since the only way to undermine it is to have routes to the pros in football and basketball that do not entail college and the pro players unions will never allow for that (even if the league owners ever wanted to get behind it). It was just as much the reality back when Knute Rockne took George Gipp out of the area pool halls where he spent his days and weeks sharking to play football for Notre Dame on Saturdays. Johnny Manziel may have actually attended more college classes than did the Gipper. [/QUOTE]
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