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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The universities, whether they are public or private, should stop preferential admissions to legacies, athletes, donors’ children, celebrities’ children.[/quote]

Agreed.  I’d also like to see the big time college sports changed.  The kids on the football/basketball/baseball/hockey teams at these big D1 schools are generally not even vaguely student-athletes.  They should just have semi-pro teams related to colleges.  Never going to happen of course.[/quote]

This is not remotely true and hard to even discuss. Athletes tend to be disciplined in everything including school work. They also tend to keep it together when under pressure. An athlete is a good bet on graduating.[/quote]

OP - I agree that many college athletes are excellent students - our older DC was scholar athlete and unbelievably disciplined and hard working. I think you are right that many college athletes have their acts together in both the classroom and on the fields.

However, when I looked into it more, it seems PPs have a point about the commercialized nature of college sports needing reform. There is something wrong when adjuncts who are often the ones educating our undergrads live below the poverty level, and many professors are paid a barely livable wage, while many sports coaches are earning millions.

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