“The large, well-funded universities have hired large compliance staffs who literally escort athletes to class each day to meet the increased requirements,” complains the latest president (before him there was Patricia Slade) of Texas Southern University, one of America’s most notorious dropout factories. TSU’s president fails to see why schools which happen not to be able to afford escorts should be punished by the NCAA for low grades among their athletes. This outraged columnist agrees that just because some schools can’t afford to service their athletes fully, that doesn’t make them lesser schools.
May 30th, 2014 at 1:44PM
Alternately, the student-athletes might try doing what the student-athletes at my modest DIII school do — come to class on their own initiative.
And by the way, I previously taught at a “large, well-funded” D1 university in the Big 12. Not once did any student-athlete receive an escort to any of my classes.