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@Techandfut That settle it then. Brandon Blooming disagrees. We can all go home now.
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@landof8 Of course it is and if it helps to expand the library, start new academic programs, bring in the best teachers.....that means nothing to the school, either. "MILLIONS OF DOLLARS!!!". It drives the resentful crazy to hear it.
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@savagetv6460 So, that's the purpose of schools? To produce geniuses? I rather doubt it. This isn't about what it offers sports fans. It's about what it offers the students that are participating in the sport. It offers a free education, deeper life experiences, new contacts, unlimited future possibilities and a chance to develop their bodies and minds through physical exertion. That others can enjoy watching the odd game that they play is just a peripheral bonus to the school and the student athlete.
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@kevm3 They're teachers of their sport, no different than a teacher that teaches physics. He may teach football, hopefully that his students, football players, can go on to a lucrative career in professional sports. If not, the students will also have backup courses, to earn a degree in another field, if a football career doesn't work out.
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@landof8 And those players can get a free education and have the experience of their lives. When it's over, doors will be opened to them in professional sports or in the fields they'd study in academia. I'd say it's great that the school can make money on their sports programs. It might lesson the tuition for ALL students. Why is it that people get so envious and resentful when they see dollar signs? "MILLIONS OF DOLLARS????" Some people react to that phrase like it was a punch in the gut.
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@mr.terrific8037 But I'm not a athlete. I played and played and I loved sports but I just didn't have that natural ability that a couple of my buddies did. One of them went on to have a career in the NHL. When he was a kid, he put on a pair of skates and was zipping around like he'd always skated while the rest of us took years to learn how to skate properly. He was a lucky guy yet he had to work hard to get to reach that level that allowed him to have a lucrative career in sports. Part of it was a scholarship to Cornell, where he received a degree that gave him the background to go on to sports management. A lucky guy that worked hard to achieve success.
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@wilberdebeer4696 Yet that student, who gets a FREE education, can only see cash. The student is exceedingly fortunate, receiving an education that costs MOST of us tens of thousands of dollars, that takes us YEARS to pay back, but it's still not good enough. Never happy. No gratitude. Just more "It's not fair" whining Just dangle the phrase "millions of dollars" and people lose their minds with resentment and anger. It took me 15 years to pay off my student loans yet these student athletes haven't spent a day paying back loans and you want me to feel bad for them. Not happening. Colleges also make money off research that students, like me, did while in universities. Do I get a cut of the endowments from large corporations that make use of the findings that students like me worked hard on? Not a cent. It opens doors for us and I appreciate that but because it's low profile, not a big fan base cheering me on, my work isn't deemed important by people like you.
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@savagetv6460 A school can't produce intelligence. Intelligence is innate and we're all born with our own level brain power and ability. The school's job is to give that intelligence direction, to teach the skills that allow that innate intelligence to flourish within the community that the students live in. If the school isn't teaching those skills, the ability to read, write, do mathematics and to think, that's when that school is failing and too many American schools are failing and miserably. You can thank their unions for that.
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