Phil's comment to Regents on race - WTF?

[DBT]

Good call, DBT. Between the racism in this thread and the Paris attack thread I read, I think I'm done at AB .

I'm out.

Haha.

 

[8Jah]

There is a major disconnect on the mission of college athletics within a university versus what players/media/coaches/fans sometimes think.

It is not professional sports. It is not simply "running a business".

If it was a business venture, they'd play football and men's basketball at the college level as scholarship sports and everything else would be a club sport.

But if they did that:

1. It would be in violation of federal law.

2. It would violate the reason that athletics became a thing at US colleges when it's not that way around the world: development of the entire person including the physical goes back to the ancient Greeks as an educational philosophy that was adopted in the US at all educational levels. Within that, inclusion and opportunities to participate in athletics is ingrained in our system. And the athletic competitions where our universities are represented connects students, alumni and the university community in a shared spirit that is overwhelmingly positive.

I think that with so much emphasis on "revenue" that we see reported, people lose site of this stuff and often forget that the operational mission of the University of Colorado is vastly different from that of the Denver Broncos.

Larry Summers used to always say that if Harvard University saw itself as a business it could charge a million dollars a year for tuition and still fill its class with qualified students. If science and engineering professors demanded royalties on the products resulting from their discoveries they would be richer than some small nations. Universities are not businesses. Football just has to generate enough revenue to cover its out-sized operational costs compared to other departments.

 

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[777BuffFan]

I think any athlete who feels strongly that staying at CU is akin to "the plantation" should be allowed to transfer immediately without sitting out a year. Probably should be limited to transferring to a HBC, so that their labors only benefit other athletes of color.

 

[Burrito]

I think any athlete who feels strongly that staying at CU is akin to "the plantation" should be allowed to transfer immediately without sitting out a year. Probably should be limited to transferring to a HBC, so that their labors only benefit other athletes of color.

Not a strong start. Really, separate but equal?

 

[bigbuff44]

I think any athlete who feels strongly that staying at CU is akin to "the plantation" should be allowed to transfer immediately without sitting out a year. Probably should be limited to transferring to a HBC, so that their labors only benefit other athletes of color.