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by yupper32
1827 days ago
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Sports are important. Being competitive is important. Having hobbies is important. Taking time to do something other than "real life" responsibilities is important. Much of this relies on the inspiration people get from watching these sports, and exposure the sport gets from the professional leagues. All of this in ingrained in American culture. Whether it's capitalism, or high level sports, or pick up ball. It's all the same ball game. Calling out a single one of these is incredibly disingenuous. Would society worsen if we never had competitive rowing again? No. Would it worsen if we got rid of the 24 sports that the NCAA oversees? Absolutely. |
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Even if I agreed with these unexplained assertions, none of this justifies collegiate varsity sports in the face of all the obstacles it places on the primary objective of university education, or indeed, the oddity of placing SAT scores and minimum GPAs as a barrier to professional athleticism.
Your thesis seems to be professional sports are a priori important, and until we can replace varsity sports that feed professional leagues with a non-affiliated minor league, varsity must not be allowed to end. But there's really only one professional league I can think of that absolutely depends on the NCAA for athlete training, and we all seem to agree they can afford to solve this threat to their highly profitable existence; Congress has even granted them an antitrust exemption so it seems entirely fair society demands they develop a solution.