The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.
But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.
College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.
I don't think college athletes are given enough time to really take advantage of the free education that they're given, and it's frustrating because a lot of people get upset with student-athletes and say, 'They're not focused on school and they're not taking advantage of the opportunity they're given.'
Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programs, or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.
These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where they go to college. Its in their very nature and it is something they expect.
How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place.