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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6282335" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>Well, take this guy who wrote that paragraph. Let us take it as a given that he shouldn't have been in college in the first place.</p><p></p><p>Okay. So, where *would* he have been, without the possibility of a sports scholarship? Are you sure that he'd be in a better place? Are you sure anyone else is being harmed by his being allowed to slide through? His degree alone, facade that it will be, isn't going to get him far, into anything he's going to hurt anyone in, now is it? If he doesn't get into the pros, he can get... a job, at least. He may not be great at it, but he has a starting place.</p><p></p><p>As opposed to... whatever a kid who managed to get through high school without an education and no prospects whatsoever will get up to? </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Punishing him, certainly not a solution. Punishing the university might be part of a solution. But, really, the issue at hand is that you're thinking about oversight as a source of punishment, instead of a source of <em>correction</em>. What if oversight got the athlete some remedial English training, as a result of oversight?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>How many pro-athlete jobs are there for a given sport? How many people *want* those jobs?</p><p></p><p>If you had a friend who really wanted to be an actor, would you tell him to just go full-bore for it, and throw all other avenues of earning a living to the winds? Or, would you tell him to have a backup plan? What backup plan does the non-student athlete have?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6282335, member: 177"] Well, take this guy who wrote that paragraph. Let us take it as a given that he shouldn't have been in college in the first place. Okay. So, where *would* he have been, without the possibility of a sports scholarship? Are you sure that he'd be in a better place? Are you sure anyone else is being harmed by his being allowed to slide through? His degree alone, facade that it will be, isn't going to get him far, into anything he's going to hurt anyone in, now is it? If he doesn't get into the pros, he can get... a job, at least. He may not be great at it, but he has a starting place. As opposed to... whatever a kid who managed to get through high school without an education and no prospects whatsoever will get up to? Punishing him, certainly not a solution. Punishing the university might be part of a solution. But, really, the issue at hand is that you're thinking about oversight as a source of punishment, instead of a source of [I]correction[/I]. What if oversight got the athlete some remedial English training, as a result of oversight? How many pro-athlete jobs are there for a given sport? How many people *want* those jobs? If you had a friend who really wanted to be an actor, would you tell him to just go full-bore for it, and throw all other avenues of earning a living to the winds? Or, would you tell him to have a backup plan? What backup plan does the non-student athlete have? [/QUOTE]
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