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Who is going to produce the worlds best athletes if the colleges stop their supposedly disproportionate spending on athletics? Athletics standards would go down
by khitchdee 13y ago
Who is going to produce the worlds best athletes if the colleges stop their supposedly disproportionate spending on athletics? Athletics standards would go down if they did that. I think athletics has an equally significant role to play in life as mind training and memorization. To be a good coach and to learn athletics requires a lot of skill and a lot of discipline both qualities that the education system is trying to inculcate anyways.
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoTrue but irrelevant to 99% of the students at any given college. Only the best in their sport get the attention and training. The rest of us look on, maybe cheer them on, then go back to our shabby classrooms and underpaid teaching assistants and try to learn something useful.
- khitchdee 13y agoThat means standards are really high so you're spending disproportionate amounts of money to train the cream of the crop. Most universities have programs for the casual sportsman. From a practical perspective, even thinking about sports or watching it is useful because it helps balance you out. Having trained as an athlete is like any other training, like a monk meditating or a more academic student going deep into their subject.
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoThose 'intramural' programs for casual sportsmen are great. But little or no money is spent on them; they pale to insignificance compared to the giant corporation that is college athletics. That's another issue entirely and almost completely unrelated.
- jackmaney 13y ago"Who is going to produce the worlds best athletes if the colleges stop their supposedly disproportionate spending on athletics?" I couldn't care less if 100% of the world's top athletes hailed from Lower Elbonia. So, to answer your question: someone else, I guess.