Two decades ago, 9 out of 10 of the top research institutions on the planet were in the US.
Today, it’s only 1 out of 10 (Harvard).
You know what did change in the meantime? College sports! There’s even more now — with gambling, too.
Commodified sports have parasitized Universities across the US — our repositories of knowledge and pillars of human civilization are catering to drunk sports fans for money and 40% of the student body at Stanford is just legacies and athletes.
The NCAA should be illegal. Profiting from sports affiliated with colleges should be illegal. Disgusting capitalists and sports fans weren’t satisfied with the NFL you had to infect universities as well with this bullshit.
I don’t know what to say to you if you think that college sports have become more or less commotized in the last two decades.
Division 1 NCAA athletic departments are:
Net contributors to their school’s general fund;
Self-funded and firewalled from accessing the general fund; and
The largest single factor in quality off applicants— the median SAT score of an applicant significantly increases in years following success in football or men’s basketball.
Honestly, I’m surprised that you’re not self aware enough to not comment on a topic on which you’re completely uniformed.
I work in academia and just watched again someone scoring a 23 on the ACT gain admission to one of the most “prestigious” institutions on the planet TO PLAY SPORTS. A spot that could have gone to one of the countless deserving students who have dedicated their lives to science, philosophy, or art, was stolen by someone with ZERO interest in education.
Stanford is rich. It has tens of billions of dollars. It would have no issues funding itself for the next century. I’m not exaggerating. Also, no other country’s higher education works this way. Can you imagine Oxford raising money by recruiting professional athletes instead of academics? Fucking grotesque.
So yes, a school can use televised athletics to fund education, just as a church can raise money by opening a brothel. The point is that this is destructive of the underlying institution and its values.
If you wanna watch sports do it. Why parasitize our educational institutions? Why not just do it independently like every other nation on earth? Because in America the WWE is in charge of the department of education.
People like you are selfish to the point of cartoonishness.
Two decades ago, 9 out of 10 of the top research institutions on the planet were in the US. Today, it’s only 1 out of 10 (Harvard).
You know what did change in the meantime? College sports! There’s even more now — with gambling, too.
Commodified sports have parasitized Universities across the US — our repositories of knowledge and pillars of human civilization are catering to drunk sports fans for money and 40% of the student body at Stanford is just legacies and athletes.
The NCAA should be illegal. Profiting from sports affiliated with colleges should be illegal. Disgusting capitalists and sports fans weren’t satisfied with the NFL you had to infect universities as well with this bullshit.
I don’t know what to say to you if you think that college sports have become more or less commotized in the last two decades.
Division 1 NCAA athletic departments are:
Honestly, I’m surprised that you’re not self aware enough to not comment on a topic on which you’re completely uniformed.
I work in academia and just watched again someone scoring a 23 on the ACT gain admission to one of the most “prestigious” institutions on the planet TO PLAY SPORTS. A spot that could have gone to one of the countless deserving students who have dedicated their lives to science, philosophy, or art, was stolen by someone with ZERO interest in education.
Stanford is rich. It has tens of billions of dollars. It would have no issues funding itself for the next century. I’m not exaggerating. Also, no other country’s higher education works this way. Can you imagine Oxford raising money by recruiting professional athletes instead of academics? Fucking grotesque.
So yes, a school can use televised athletics to fund education, just as a church can raise money by opening a brothel. The point is that this is destructive of the underlying institution and its values.
If you wanna watch sports do it. Why parasitize our educational institutions? Why not just do it independently like every other nation on earth? Because in America the WWE is in charge of the department of education.
People like you are selfish to the point of cartoonishness.