Where does education fit into all this? It never has. U-Conn. — like many institutions of higher earning — brings in 18-year-old athletes to sell tickets and TV rights to basketball games. In return, the athletes get a scholarship to a university in which they scarcely attend classes.
Norman Chad, Washington Post, on the Calhoun thing.
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:19AM
I doubt it, UD. The athletes may be present in body only, but the big athletic departments have squadrons of minders to make sure the beef shows up for class.