[NU Sports] NU Attendance et al

[Arthur Miller]

Not sure how this 'snobbery' discussion got started, but when it comes to the academic side of college athletics, IMO our world needs *more* snobbery.  That is, we need more institutions to enforce and exalt the academic aspect of college sports, not water it down.  We need more programs to demonstrate moral courage and not offer "scholarships" to talented athletes who clearly aren't interested or prepared for a serious university-level course of study.

If that means some current "student-athletes" (and I'm referring to those who skate through their college experience by pursuing worthless degrees with little academic rigor) no longer have a means of participating in Division I athletics, that's fine with me.  Last I checked, nobody was guaranteed the right to play college sports just for being a fine athlete.




--- On Tue, 11/10/09, Dennis W. Brandt <tbng at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Dennis W. Brandt <tbng at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] NU Attendance et al
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 7:52 PM
> > Yikes, you all should try going
> to University in the UK, Scotland is owned
> > by 380 people, really, the whole country, and Oxford
> requires a
> > recommendation  from a member of the house of
> lords for admission, we can only play at
> > snobbery  compared to those experts. I found
> Northwestern very diverse and
> > not at all  exclusionary, we have no skull and
> bones, no hasty pudding, just
> > a painted  rock.
> 
> Nope, just plain old, look-down-on-you informal
> snobbery.  I got money; you don't; so I'm better than
> you.  Some reflect that attitude here. 
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