The National Football League and National Basketball Association reap huge financial rewards because the nation's colleges essentially run a farm league system for professional sports. The NFL and NBA don't finance their own minor leagues, and young college athletes pay the price, especially when they get hurt. That's one point raised by author Taylor Branch in "The Shame of College Sports" in the October Atlantic.
Loras College athletic teams won three IIAC championships and reached two NCAA Division III Tournaments during a strong fall 2010 season. Here's a capsule look at the 2011 Duhawk fall sports: MEN'S SOCCER
PORTLAND, Maine -- University of Maine Athletic Director Steve Abbott on Thursday talked about the economic impact of college sports and also addressed the sorts of skills that student athletes pick up outside the classrooms. Abbott, who was Sen. Susan Collins' chief of staff from 1997 to 2009 before an unsuccessful gubernatorial run in 2010, noted the "unbelievable anger" that he saw in society, from the tea party movement in 2010 to the "Occupy" movement of 2011. But those movements can only achieve so much, Abbott said, speaking at the Portland Regional Chamber's Eggs and Issues breakfast.
Many American universities are tainted by their million-dollar sports operations. Football and basketball coaches earn vastly more than university presidents or world-renowned professors. Marginal "student-athletes" unfit for college study but gifted at athletics are recruited to win glory and TV cash for the schools. Rah-rah graduates sometimes sneak payola to the stars under the table. A university is supposed to be a place of learning - not an arena for gladiators and screaming fans. But the monumental money at stake has grown to dominate, so the tail wags the dog.
What has happened at Penn State feels like one of those fateful moments when the angry gods hurl thunderbolts to get our attention. The message from on high? If you won't fix college sports, we'll try to illustrate the depths of the problem. We'll use one of the better programs to make the point that even the good ones think they are untouchable.
Prostitutes, booze and bounties have become irrelevant pastimes in college sports. And free tattoos with a little side cash for college athletes? Well, that's elementary stuff. We've moved on to far more sinister acts of moral destruction in this "pure" world of amateur athletics.
Joe Paterno was by far the longest-serving head coach in major college football when Penn State dismissed him three weeks ago. Until Sunday evening, Syracuse head man Jim Boeheim and his top assistant, Bernie Fine, were the longest-tenured coaching tandem in Division I college basketball. It's an odd coincidence, perhaps. But it does makes me wonder. Do these entrenched sports powers, where coaches rise above the university and become venerated like emperors and kings, create a culture of insulation and denial that provides a haven for a child molester?
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