Where Are The Diversity Police On The College Basketball Court?
Econ and finance prof Dr. Mark J. Perry asks just the right question in respect to affirmative action on campus -- race being taken into account in college admissions, allowing minority students with worse grades and tests scores in ahead of non-minorities who did better.
He first quotes an ESPN piece:
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- "The National Association of Basketball Coaches has told the U.S. Supreme Court it believes university officials should be able to continue taking race into consideration when deciding who gets to enroll in their schools."
And then that question:
Q: Will the college basketball coaches agree to take race and diversity goals into consideration when deciding who gets to play on their teams?
I totally suck at any sport where there's a large ball that flies at you: basketball, kickball, volleyball, and certainly football. My response to the ball coming at me? Ducking -- that is, if I don't have time to drop and roll and curl up in a fetal position.
Shouldn't I have been considered for a college basketball scholarship?
Liberals tend not to operate under bottom line logic like that. They tend to operate under feel good logic
Theirs is a 'we should have X'....and when someone then applies the exact same logic to conclude 'then we should have Y', ad hominem attacks on the person suggesting Y commence. Their favorite subject of the ad hominem attack is racism.
TW at August 26, 2012 12:25 AM
The first six or seven paragraphs of this article are wonderful reading.
Try to remember everything government has done to make academics fat and happy at every level, from grade school through the doctoral programs. Think about the explosion of bureaucracy and debt in academe.
It's NOT ENOUGH. They still want more money.
Crid [CridComment at gmail] at August 26, 2012 12:31 AM
Texas had it right for a while.
There should be a split of college sports from the colleges and universities.
If a college wants to have it's name attached to a sports team it should form a separate league. Put the players on a 4 year contract, pay them and part of the compensation is a scholarship to the named university after the contract is up. If the major leagues want to pick the student up early, he has the option.
Quit with the fakery.
Jim P. at August 26, 2012 2:18 AM
The Hawk.
Crid [CridComment at gmail] at August 26, 2012 3:09 AM
Sun Tzu's The Art of War includes much advice about dividing your enemy to win a war. This fits the ticket.
We just can't be a meritocracy, because of the whine, "It's not fair!"
Radwaste at August 26, 2012 7:24 AM
It's simply about the money. (It always is). College sports teams that win bring in donations from boosters and alumni.
Therefore it is perfectly okay to discriminate against students who pay to attend. But, it is NEVER proper to discriminate against money making operations.
As always, "follow the money."
Jay at August 26, 2012 9:48 AM
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