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Ricky Williams, the former running back disagrees saying "that would devalue the education."
With all the reports of ineligible athletes being given a free ride through school, some are suggesting that academically ineligible athletes not be invited to the combine.
Many schools don't make much money off of their football program and some actually lose money, should the school take money from academics to pay their athletes? What about the students from poor backgrounds who busted their tails in school to get a scholarship? Are they less important than athletes? They make the school look good for helping kids from impoverished families get to college, maybe they should get paid too. Many of them have health issues caused by their upbringing, are they less important than athletes who get injured playing a game they love?
I think that the NCAA should have an exit program for college athletes to help them adjust to life after college sports and to assist them should there be lingering health issues, but they don't need to pay them. That would take the focus off the importance of an education and just prove that college sports is more important than academics.
College athletes already get a free pass throughout their stay, and it sends the wrong message, as this article shows:
"We love the game. We love the players, too, even when they scare us.
Like the blue-chip defensive secondary leader who wrote his personal essay for an openly gay professor on the time in high school he gleefully commanded a posse to bash a girly fag near to death, caved the queer's face, and ruined his smile.
Or the hulking offensive star who brought a friend to help him corner a short, pretty instructor alone in her closet office and scare her within an inch of her life for telling the athletic department he was clowning in class.
Or the top offensive player who sought tutoring from me on a plagiarized paper while tweaking on uppers. Or the standout lineman who never showed for my lectures or turned much in except for a term paper written in someone else's voice, then magically disappeared from the class roll when I resisted the team handlers who pressed me not to fail him.
These guys are all starters at Florida State University. They're probably going to play for the national title; they're almost certainly going to go high in the NFL draft. None of them is older than 22, and they already have longer Wikipedia entries than anyone on the FSU faculty.
My colleagues and I—writers and teachers of writing—are on that faculty. Most of us are Seminole fans as well as teachers. We've dashed off tributes to the game and the players—some conflicted, some not."
http://deadspin.com/jameis-winston-isnt-the-only-problem-here-an-fsu-teac-1467707410
With all the reports of ineligible athletes being given a free ride through school, some are suggesting that academically ineligible athletes not be invited to the combine.
Many schools don't make much money off of their football program and some actually lose money, should the school take money from academics to pay their athletes? What about the students from poor backgrounds who busted their tails in school to get a scholarship? Are they less important than athletes? They make the school look good for helping kids from impoverished families get to college, maybe they should get paid too. Many of them have health issues caused by their upbringing, are they less important than athletes who get injured playing a game they love?
I think that the NCAA should have an exit program for college athletes to help them adjust to life after college sports and to assist them should there be lingering health issues, but they don't need to pay them. That would take the focus off the importance of an education and just prove that college sports is more important than academics.
College athletes already get a free pass throughout their stay, and it sends the wrong message, as this article shows:
"We love the game. We love the players, too, even when they scare us.
Like the blue-chip defensive secondary leader who wrote his personal essay for an openly gay professor on the time in high school he gleefully commanded a posse to bash a girly fag near to death, caved the queer's face, and ruined his smile.
Or the hulking offensive star who brought a friend to help him corner a short, pretty instructor alone in her closet office and scare her within an inch of her life for telling the athletic department he was clowning in class.
Or the top offensive player who sought tutoring from me on a plagiarized paper while tweaking on uppers. Or the standout lineman who never showed for my lectures or turned much in except for a term paper written in someone else's voice, then magically disappeared from the class roll when I resisted the team handlers who pressed me not to fail him.
These guys are all starters at Florida State University. They're probably going to play for the national title; they're almost certainly going to go high in the NFL draft. None of them is older than 22, and they already have longer Wikipedia entries than anyone on the FSU faculty.
My colleagues and I—writers and teachers of writing—are on that faculty. Most of us are Seminole fans as well as teachers. We've dashed off tributes to the game and the players—some conflicted, some not."
http://deadspin.com/jameis-winston-isnt-the-only-problem-here-an-fsu-teac-1467707410