Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Football for College Credit.
Everyone seems to be all up in arms about this but I don't agree. I think the football players should be able to legitimately get a credit in football.
One credit. Two. It doesn't really matter.
I got a credits for athletics when I was in college - kayak was 1 and archery was another. We had to have two PE credits. You showed up. You learned a few terms, shot a few flights, took a silly multiple choice exam. It was a nice break from the 18-21 mechanical engineering credits per semester (on top of the ROTC and the stuff for commissioned officers).
What's the big deal? I like it that the rest of the school can have its courses without the lunkheads slowing everything down. They would never have made it to college other than for football, so it's not like they're being deprived of anything. Any players who do have brains will get their education regardless of what the lunkheads do.
With all the people majoring in FillinTheBlank Studies or some other touchy-feely joke, I can't think that 100 football players is going to skew the median all that much.
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I agree - it makes as much sense as me getting a credit for archery when I couldn't hit the broad side of a barn.
ReplyDeleteI was going to make some tacky comment about Georgia football not counting, but they do work hard in their games and in practice.