Back2Lawrence wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 2:08 pm
I'll just be happy when they stop calling them student-athletes.
If I was a professor, and had in my class player(s) making 5-10-more times money than me, I'd be pissed. Just let them come and play their sports ball without the mockery of mixing in an academic experience. The men will still have their pick of the ladies, undoubtedly, so selling points remain the same, minus the financial incentives no longer hush-hush.
To me, we're
decades late in creating a Professional Sports (or whatever) major.
Because I wholeheartedly agree with you that, especially when we're talking about major-level classes, the "student-athlete" fiction is a waste of lots of people's time (including the professors', not to mention the other students').
The educational experience would absolutely serve the players better were it directed toward, you know, their desired career paths.
All of that said - kids make (or simply have) more money than teachers all of the time; should Natalie Portman's professors at Harvard have been pissed at her choosing to take their classes?
That's why, to me, the issue is more the put-upon fiction of shoehorning athletes into courses of study that they really have no interest in pursuing.
