Your article fails to address the true issue. That issue is that many players in some specific sports are used as fodder by institutions of higher learning for their own financial gain. To me, education is the path to improving the human condition. This notion has been corrupted by some university presidents and athletic directors. What does it say of your success in the mission of education when you produce an unacceptable number of non-graduating athletes whose future prospects for advancement in society is limited without a degree. So we all blink and look the other way. After all, it is all entertainment and nobody is hurt. It is all just part of the increasing commercialization of college athletics. My response has been to turn it off. My praise goes to those athletes who continue an intellectual pursuit in this cess pool.
NDof LA11:51AM January 27, 2010
Remember last year, of the 15 men chosen one was an All American from Florida state, one was a UCLA starter and one was a UCLA rugby player.
Bob O'Connor12:34PM January 23, 2010
In my over 60 years of living, until now, I have always been of the understanding that going to school, i.e. Jr. High through college has been for the pursuit of knowledge, or learning. Extra-curricula activities were just that, extra. Now we have recruiting in all levels of school. Sports in higher education is big money. Before that it is most likely ego and preparation for more advanced playing. What it all dictates into is money fueled by ego. Thank God we still have students in school. And even better, we still have a few athletes in football and basketball that are also students. Oh, and for those athletes who are there only for the sports and the thought of future mega earnings, have no fear. There are still morons out there who will pay big money to watch you look angry and do your silly little dances.
bwof NJ11:00PM January 18, 2010
It's s a travesty Toby Gerhart isn't mentioned here. 2-sport athlete (the MLB and the NFL both want him), management science & engineering major at a much tougher school (Stanford) than any that were mentioned here. Family, youth, & communication studies reminds me of that one football player's quarter at OSU when he took classes entitled "TV," "Aids Awareness," and "Golf."
Jasonof OH11:02AM December 27, 2009
Hmmmmmm? Three from Penn State! Joe Paterno must be doing something right.
Craigof NM3:35PM December 23, 2009
Seems like you are missing Sean Bedford of Georgia Tech with a 3.66 in Aerospace Engineering?
JeanAnnof GA5:03PM December 22, 2009
Hahaha what, is that degree not good enough for you? Should he forgo what he's interested in, what he wants to do, and instead take some genericized degree in math and science, or the classical humanities? He has a desire to do great things with that degree when he graduates, just as this article says. So what's wrong with it?
"So-called student-athlete," what a joke. There are plenty of scholar-athletes in the world who are successful both on the field and in the classroom, and he's only one specific example. The article chose to talk about him, instead of someone else, simply to make the point that a hot-shot football star CAN be among these great scholar-athletes.
Aaron Thomasof NY1:34PM December 20, 2009
Hahaha family,youth, and communication studies. Its ridiculous that one has to resort to players such as this in order exemplify the so called "student-athlete. What a waste of an article.
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ND of LA 11:51AM January 27, 2010
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bw of NJ 11:00PM January 18, 2010
Jason of OH 11:02AM December 27, 2009
Craig of NM 3:35PM December 23, 2009
JeanAnn of GA 5:03PM December 22, 2009
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