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[QUOTE="sufandu, post: 4494647, member: 874"]
With all you're saying, just don't connect athletics to the schools at all then.

Like it or not, your health insurance and any other benefit you recieve are part of your compensation package. Ask the accountants thag work for your company. Ask any management and union negotiating employee contracts. It's why when some big union goes on strike and the news reports on compensation numbers,  they include all of that in the figure.

Your second paragraph doesn't even make sense.

School prestige matters. Why did you choose Lemoyne over your fall back schools? Why does someone choose Harvard over Syracuse? Why does everyone on here make such a big deal over SU's communications program compared to the programs at other schools? Because some schools offer better education and more opportunities than others. So if someone benefits from relaxed admissions standards it shouldn't be ignored.

I didn't tell them not to be an athlete. I said if they don't like the trade offs they don't have to be. So many people talk about college athletes as if they're being raked over the coals against their will. There's trade offs in life. If you want to be a doctor you get an undergrad degree, spend 4 years in med school, and do your internship and residency. If you're willing to give the military a certain chunk of your life, you can get a free education through ROTC. If they want to be pro athletes there are trade offs. Nobody is requiring them to make athletics their profession.
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