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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 52477" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>I'll go you one better: get colleges out of supporting scholarship athletics altogether. If we converted the whole kit and caboodle to Div 3 standards, we might be able to address a good many of the problems that collegiate education now faces. I just ran across some OECD figures on this. The US spends more on college, no matter how you measure it, then any other country in the organization. The reason why is revealing: we spend twice as much as our nearest OECD competitor (the UK) on what their stats people call "ancillary services" (transport, room, and board). Since no other post-secondary system in the universe has anything like the collegiate sports complex in this country, I would guess that the sports expenses ended up in there. Throw in the immense expansion of administration in our colleges - the great proportion of it unnecessary and driven by the need to be more "competitive" in areas that have nothing much to do with education - and you have the solution for why collegiate education has become so expensive here.</p><p></p><p>I don't think that's going to happen, of course. One of the members of the California Board of Regents once asked Clark Kerr what college was for. Kerr's reply catches it, "Sports for the alumni, sex for the students, and parking for the faculty." However, we all, and especially the students, would be a lot better off if it did. Like boxing, I'd miss big time college football a lot, but I'd drop it like a bad habit if the opportunity presented itself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 52477, member: 265"] I'll go you one better: get colleges out of supporting scholarship athletics altogether. If we converted the whole kit and caboodle to Div 3 standards, we might be able to address a good many of the problems that collegiate education now faces. I just ran across some OECD figures on this. The US spends more on college, no matter how you measure it, then any other country in the organization. The reason why is revealing: we spend twice as much as our nearest OECD competitor (the UK) on what their stats people call "ancillary services" (transport, room, and board). Since no other post-secondary system in the universe has anything like the collegiate sports complex in this country, I would guess that the sports expenses ended up in there. Throw in the immense expansion of administration in our colleges - the great proportion of it unnecessary and driven by the need to be more "competitive" in areas that have nothing much to do with education - and you have the solution for why collegiate education has become so expensive here. I don't think that's going to happen, of course. One of the members of the California Board of Regents once asked Clark Kerr what college was for. Kerr's reply catches it, "Sports for the alumni, sex for the students, and parking for the faculty." However, we all, and especially the students, would be a lot better off if it did. Like boxing, I'd miss big time college football a lot, but I'd drop it like a bad habit if the opportunity presented itself. [/QUOTE]
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