• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    7 months ago

    Give the ones most likely to get brain damage a shot to higher education.

    The perfect ruse

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      7 months ago

      But no time to be educated. Also the education is the only form of compensation they’re allowed.

      Seriously we need to end athletic scholarships and replace them with minor leagues for non baseball sports and need based scholarships.

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    7 months ago

    I know this is a meme, but I do think it’s worth mentioning most D1 popular sports costs like, coach’s salaries, scholarships, facilities, equipment, and travel, aren’t funded through the university.

    https://www.upua.org/presidential-blog/university-budgeting-and-finances-what-about-athletics

    It’s still a pretty messed up system, don’t get me wrong. Just pointing out the universities aren’t giving scholarships to athletes instead of students… at least not directly.

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    7 months ago

    There’s like three hundred million Americans, and I feel like nowhere near enough of them are passionate about how higher education and unpaid athletes performing for the commercial benefit of rich people should have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

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      I would be passionate about it if anybody would listen to me decrying how ridiculous the entire shenanigan is. But I have a feeling nobody would ever listen to me.

      If Elon musk or Bill Gates or Steve Jobs…sry dead or President Biden or John Cena were passionate about how higher education and unpaid athletes performing for the commercial benefit of rich people should have absolutely nothing to do with each other… then I think people would listen.

  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    still trying to work out the economics of paying for college, and having all my work published under them. And potentially not even owned by me.

    Seems rather weird to pay for that.