Between the nil payments and the portal education really is an after thought. No way you can be on track to graduate jumping schools like this. If the kids donāt care about an education and the athletic departments donāt care about it why the hell are we funding it. It used to be the motivation was to get an education and play a sport. Now itās to play the sport and I donāt think the education even factor into kids decision process or the schoolās priorities.
At this point is the educational component a complete farce and a waste of money? Should going to class be optional?
Iām not trying to defend the new structure, but I suppose this heartless, ruthless, money-driven scheme is more accurate to what those players going post-collegiate-professional will face in their careers. In that way, it is a better education for that fraction of players.
With that, I believe the answer to your question is, classes? We talkin about classes. Not the game. Classes.
At this point, classes should be optional. Itās not like all the players are doing the work anyway. I know thereās some who are, but is it most? Maybe outside the money sports. So many are taking all online classes and someone else does the minimal work required. This way, colleges can get back to focusing on quality programs without undermining their educational standards to keep pro athletes eligible. Though for a lot of schools, the real focus is on obtaining research grants, so maybe educational programs arenāt the focus anyway.
The United States is the only country that bolts on costly sports programs to institutions of higher education. It was a unique tradition in our country but if you start paying players that arenāt even students what is the point?
It seems crazy to me that the athletic departments wouldnāt want these kids to get their degrees. I am not saying that I disagree with you guys, but it seems short sighted on their part. It would seem to me that the more student athletes you graduate, the more your donation base is going to grow. With them getting good paying jobs, due to their degrees, the more money in donations for NIL and athletic departments. Letās face it, most of these kids are not going to go on to be pros.
Iām so ready to tap out of all organized sports. If I didnāt care about the 49ers I would have been out 10 years ago completely. Nothing about organized sports seems appealing any more.
Did you guys see the article below this one on line? It was about 7 5* players out of HS that didnāt get drafted and Okie Anoma was one of the ones listed. This is the last sentence when telling his story. Title is " Tuesdays with Gorney: What went wrong for the seven undrafted five-stars"
There were also some pre-draft comments by anonymous NFL scouts about former St. Frances coach and current Charlotte coach Biff Poggi being like a āsurrogate dadā to Okie-Anoma but also an āenabler.ā
