Another mission statement for the University of Miami (and many other campuses), courtesy of the coach of the Orlando Magic.
Colleges shouldn’t be farm systems. It doesn’t make any logical sense. But the schools don’t want to be blatantly in the situation of being professional sports even though they already are professional sports. They just want to disguise it, so they hide behind education. But, really, all you want is enough of your athletes to graduate so it looks like that’s what you care about. Anyone around sports knows it is all a bunch of bull[expletive]… The alumni want the illusion, and so does the school… But the kids know it is all bull[expletive]. Everyone does.