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Should Student-Athletes Get Financial Breaks?

Posted by Ron Johnston on Mon, Sep 21, 2009 @ 05:03 PM
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Today's opinion piece on athletic scholarships in the Winston-Salem Journal pointed out that that North Carolina taxpayers are subsidizing tuition of out-of-state athlete students.

How? By categorizing them as in-state students if they're on full-ride athletic scholarships. It's been so since 2005, when state senate leaders slipped this provision into the budget.

Foundations paying for athletic scholarships are pleased to save the extra tuition - saying it increases the number of scholarships they can fund.

Other critics don't like it, calling it a "pilferage of state taxpayers."

What do you think? 

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NCAA President Myles Brand had his priorities right

Posted by Jon Fugler on Thu, Sep 17, 2009 @ 01:02 PM
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Myles Brand may have been recognized more for his firing of Bobby Knight than his presidency of the NCAA, but the truth is that he did much to reform collegiate athletics in his term, before his passing yesterday.

ESPN reported, "The first former university president to run college sports' largest governing body, Brand worked to change the perception that wins supersede academics and earned accolades for his efforts."

The NCAA has long been criticized for de-emphasis on academics, and Brand made significant efforts to change that.  At Recruit-Me, we have always felt that the recruited athlete needs to make academics a priority over athletics, so we give Brand kudos for his work.

From the same article:

"This is a sad moment for the Big Ten and the NCAA as a whole," said Big Ten commissioner James E. Delany said in a statement. "Myles Brand was a tremendous leader at Indiana University and an active change agent in spotlighting academic improvement as the NCAA president. He made tremendous progress in moving the NCAA closer to its educational roots and transformed it into an organization concerned about the student component of the student-athlete."

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