Should Graduation Rates Affect NCAA March Madness Bids?

Let's face it, with incredibly rising student tuition at universities and student loans that are just at enormous rates in a job market that doesn't provide, it's a fact at this point that many many more high school students are reconsidering going to universities. That's partly why the High School drop out rate is increasing at rates we have never seen year by year and also the reason by we are seeing more and more students skip university education for more career and tech schools where they can get a certificate in a computer or medical field within a couple of years and with a lot less money.

I coach basketball and have been doing so for 14 YEARS now straight. And I see middle school and high school students now more than ever not care about keeping up any good grades in order to play Div 1 ball or go to university... They say, "well, Koby Bryant and Lebron James didn't go to college and look at them now, they play in the NBA and make the big bucks." Ya, but how many Kobe's and Lebron's are there? Majority of players need to go through college and we need to make college more difficult to get into. I'm sorry, when I see some of these teams such as Kentucky or Missouri play, they don't see like the educated types such as those players coming from Duke or UCLA or CAL Berkely. You can see the difference.

We're breeding dumb people in the US and basketball is helping in that regard. We need educational reform Mr. President...

THINK4YURSELF of CA 2:56PM March 23, 2010