Poor fellows keep taking gambles.
And damned if they didn’t just take another bad gamble.
I know we’re all supposed to have shifted our filthy-university-sports attention from Binghamton to the University of North Carolina, but Binghamton keeps hogging the limelight.
October 10th, 2012 at 9:04AM
It seems to me we’re seeing, largely as a result of the Sandusky affair, a new level of understanding of the risks of overemphasis on athletics. The whole enterprise is justified by external (off-campus) effects, so detrimental internal effects are dismissed; but very bad publicity, especially at Penn State where the football program was relatively “clean” and had in fact been a strong positive for the university (one of only a very few clear cases) has changed perceptions.
Whether this will last is an open question.
October 10th, 2012 at 9:37AM
Mr Punch: I think you’re right. Schools routinely overlook academic fraud – or encourage it, of course – because that’s internal and for some reason not even your faculty care about that.
But the externalities these days!