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[QUOTE="armory, post: 55400, member: 744"]
I really don't understand why it is OK for colleges & universities to charge $50k+ per year to give intelligent and promising students worthless degrees in 'philosophy' or 'art history' ... but it is not OK for an athlete to get a degree in an athletic sport that may be by far their most promising career. All this NCAA and Pro League meddling has twisted and distorted college sports into a perceived vice of learning institutions. It's like the NCAA has decided that while higher education is supposed to be open to embrace all fields of study... sports is the only field that is not OK.

If I want to pay a huge tuition to learn how to become the best post-modern urban metallic sculpture critic in the world I'd have plenty of schools welcoming that endeavor ... but if I wanted to learn everything there is about a sport that I play which will likely be the career that supports my livelihood & my family ... 'absolutely not, get a real degree'! It's about time that schools should allowed to embrace [I]any [/I]curriculum or program that the students demand, especially those that provide practical value. There's so much talk out there about the looming higher education bubble nearing a collapse, yet the best way to relieve that threat - degrees that provide practical value - are the ones that are being blocked or under attack. Sickening.
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