How Big-Time Sports Ate College Life

The wonderful article of the New York Times describes how big sports will affect college life.

"At Ohio State University each freshman has been admired as a" feltest and wisest "freshman in school history for about 10 years. Applicants, test scores, and applicants' GPAs are rising. Successfully transformed scholars from "other public schools" to academic institutions respected

This academic surge was consistent with the Telexell era. This is the best performance of the soccer team for a certain period of time. There are top 10 championship diving, synchronized swimming and boating games. I do not say that the success of sports has brought about progress in academia. But it obviously did not hurt it

Of course, college students skip classrooms to participate in basketball games. Of course, some people disappeared for two days to participate in bowl competition. Yes, I will skip the course to buy a ticket. But people also skip the class to end the work for another class or because they are sleeping. They postponed the paper to attend major concerts. They are doing their utmost to end the work as they are ordering a marathon with friends looking at the law. It's a college life.

College students can always concentrate on something else outside the classroom. Most people will tell you that if they are assigned 24 hours a day, 365 days in the classroom they will go crazy. Did they always say "participate" to us? It is not just for recovery. It is used for connecting, identity, and forming a community. University sports is more than coach's wages and video games. "

Television is welcome. Murray Speer, author of "Beer and Circus: How the University Times Breaks College Era College Education" Murray Speer stated that more and more professional university sports are attracting more non-athletes It is. "Media coverage entered the heads of children," he said. "When they are ready to pick a university it will be a bigger factor than history." Over the past decade, the number of ESPN channel college football basketball games has increased from 491 to 1,320. This does not include games indicated by competitors. Big 10 Network, Fox, CBS / Turner, Versus, NBC. All of these programming means large games scheduled this week, television staff on campus, deadlock, and rear campus.

There is also a question of what a small university will do. Four years ago, I thought that the cost of university sports increased in college days, so that in small schools we will rethink football's role. This is an expensive sport. I might decide that they no longer emphasize sports, they are probably part of the first part and I do not think they are competing with the Power 5 conference. However, I found out that I was wrong. After the attendance fee was approved, universities other than Power 5 almost agreed that they still succeeded in paying the players despite their strict sports budget. If you set a salary limit, you will find methods of payment at universities other than Power 5. I do not think that this is the best result, but the net profit due to the payroll limit exceeds it.