Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
If some basketball fanatics want to use their own money to build UNLV a practice facility [which will include an "academic area". LMAO!], I don't really object. That's the way public education is SUPPOSED to be funded. I won't quibble here about about the annual ~$500K maintenance cost -- especially if the donors have committed to pay for that, too.
But under NO circumstances should a bunch of wealthy sports boosters be able to HIJACK the mission of a *public* university. No compromised admission standards for players. No jockology majors to give them academic cover. No text messaging with the coach during mid-terms. None of this 6 years of non-progress towards completing a degree.
I don't mind professors making *accomodations* for athletes. For example, scheduling make-up exams and arranging special lab times, but otherwise players have to be treated just like ordinary students. None of this going over the head of the English professor, like what happened at SUNY.
And I don't want to hear any more of this "successful Division 1 sports programs boosts recruiting of scholars, raises the profile of the University, blah blah blah ..." When did sports become an ADVERTISING program?
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