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"We are serving the the semi-pros and not the regular student body." says University of Denver, and former University of Tennessee, professor Linda Bensel-Myers, who leads the radical group of college faculty called the Drake Group.
"It's a professional farm league," she said of college athletics. "That's the thing that needs to be changed."
Then enter the Maurice Clarett saga.
Books, graphing calculators, laptop computers, tuition payments, and a library card are essentials for today's college students who work to earn a degree and an opportunity to earn a decent living.
But such essentials are foreign to most of today's "students" who are a part of the athletic subculture on every campus having a big time athletic program. These athletes are not even in the mainstream of student life. They pay no tuition. They are feed and housed at athletic department expense. Instead of attending math, English and history classes, they watch film of the next opponent. They then go to the weightroom for a workout and after that off they go to practice. They only have to be enrolled in two courses to maintain eligibility. The average student takes 12 - 15 course hours a term, but the subculture just needs six hours to be eligible for bowl games and tournaments. | |
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