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[QUOTE="Toga, post: 4306840, member: 365"]
There's another aspect to schools with a no class approach. If "no class" football factories become identified as such in the public perception, that identification could in some ways hurt their recruiting. Sure some elite athletes who just want a shot at the NFL will find it attractive. But it's not like the NBA where an 18 year old kid would have at least a better sense of their ability to make the pros than would a FB player.

A college degree from no class universities would essentially be meaningless to employers and leave employers with a "dumb jock" applying for a job. Decent students and their parents with any sense of rational thinking would understand this and would therefore be more inclined to go somewhere where their degree is actually worth something in the (likely) event the athlete does not make the pros.

Then of course as you point out, do school Chancellors and BOTs want to be known as operating dumb jock schools? Some may not care, but most would.
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