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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why don’t we talk about how large state universities recruit “student” athletes who are basically free agent hired guns and are exploited and tossed aside. Why don’t we talk about how messed up it is that coaches are the highest paid employees at many institutions purportedly devoted to education?  Why don’t we talk about how backwards it is that so many students are drawn to big state schools for the “culture” of drinking and spectating from the stands and cheering for “their” team of students who basically are not involved in the life of the university at all. And how ridiculous it is to prioritize this kind of thing when picking a university to attend when the whole point is to get an education?

Bottom line, why pick on SLACs. At least athletes in those schools are real students and their actual friends and classmates are in the stands. [/quote]

I think there is legitimate reason to decry the entire athlete-college industrial complex.  For D1, it would seem the NCAA will continue to diminish in power and probably within 5 years, colleges will pay students directly to compete in sports.  It is unclear if those athletes will even have to maintain any facade of going to actually going to college.

All this trickles down to D3.  D3 coaches are all gunning to become D1 coaches and don’t care much about the academic performance of their athletes.

My kid is getting recruited for a sport and you now have D3 coaches at places like Bates and Colby advertising how many of their players used the transfer portal to transfer to a D1 (places like Richmond, Davidson and Ivy schools).  It is now a one-and-mentality that D3 isn’t the end…it’s a minor league for academic D1.  [/quote]

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