(March 17, 2015 at 4:08 pm)Chuck Wrote:(March 17, 2015 at 3:42 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Not all of them graduate, but there's still a whole lot of Division I and II athletes who may not have ever gone to college that wind up with careers in something other than sports simply because of their athletic ability and the opportunity it gave them.
They stole that opportunity from someone better qualified for college and career.
I would agree that the ones that didn't graduate absolutely took an opportunity from someone else.
But the ones that got to college on their academic prowess and were successful didn't.
The athletics departments from most colleges are what make them viable. Not all colleges have ridiculous endowments like Harvard or Princeton. So the money that those student athletes brought in, even if they took a slot based on their athletic prowess and not their academic merit, helps buy the laboratory that the guy that got in on his academic merit works in. It helps pay for academic scholarships for those kids that can't pay for school. It helps pay the salary for the professor that teaches 400 students a semester.
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