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I'm sure this is not going to be a popular topic here, or on any college fan board but. . . For those of us who get HBO the recent episode of Real Sports ran a piece on college sports costs. Here is a link to the trailer:
Ep. 229 Trailer: Arms Race
The trailer does not do justice to the whole piece. Even as an active college sports fan or because of it, I found the piece deeply disturbing and thought provoking.
In the past I have seen investigating reports of how colleges spend whatever they have to to make their sports departments a loser, allowing them to request more $$$ in their operating budgets. In almost every state the highest paid state employee is a college coach. Gumbel's piece goes one step further, one giant step.
The report questions why. Why do colleges spend absurdly high amounts of money in their athletic departments? Is that the mission of the university? When the university was founded was that their vision?
What happened to the goal of providing the best possible college education at the lowest possible cost to the student?
The way it is now the general student population directly or more insidiously supports the athletic departments in almost all universities. A tax if you will.
One has only to look within the borders of Connecticut to see costs of big time athletics. Forget the costs of building a Gampel. What about the costs of maintaining it through its lifetime - as we plainly see in another current thread on the subject.
[Mod edit: politics]
Somewhere we got off the track. Our priorities are misplaced. The education of our children has to be Job 1. Leaving them with suffocating debt when they graduate is one hell of a legacy.
Ep. 229 Trailer: Arms Race
The trailer does not do justice to the whole piece. Even as an active college sports fan or because of it, I found the piece deeply disturbing and thought provoking.
In the past I have seen investigating reports of how colleges spend whatever they have to to make their sports departments a loser, allowing them to request more $$$ in their operating budgets. In almost every state the highest paid state employee is a college coach. Gumbel's piece goes one step further, one giant step.
The report questions why. Why do colleges spend absurdly high amounts of money in their athletic departments? Is that the mission of the university? When the university was founded was that their vision?
What happened to the goal of providing the best possible college education at the lowest possible cost to the student?
The way it is now the general student population directly or more insidiously supports the athletic departments in almost all universities. A tax if you will.
One has only to look within the borders of Connecticut to see costs of big time athletics. Forget the costs of building a Gampel. What about the costs of maintaining it through its lifetime - as we plainly see in another current thread on the subject.
[Mod edit: politics]
Somewhere we got off the track. Our priorities are misplaced. The education of our children has to be Job 1. Leaving them with suffocating debt when they graduate is one hell of a legacy.
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