Annotations of “A major gain for college sports”
-Offering atheletes a degree in sports would broaden AND deepen their understanding of what they do. They should be offered that opportunity just like anyone else. There is SO much value in getting to understand all aspects of what you are passionate about
-After making sports more available in an academic sense, there will probably so many gateways opened in the industry that no one knew could be opened
-Why should athletes have to be faced with “you have to be elite enough to go pro and make millions off of it or you can’t do it at all”
-Claim: Athletics should be more acknowledged in the academic world.
-reasons: Music and art offer a lot of different majors but sports don’t. Many of the skills that are used for music and art are also used for sports. They are not treated with the same level of acknowledgement either.
Evidence: They devote as much time to their craft as artists do.
Evidence: We tell music students that regardless of their failures, they have acquired something really valuable and should keep going but we tell athletes with big goals that they are impractical.
Reason: College sports exist to merely please donors and raise universities’ rankings. They are treated as unpaid labor, not valuable students.
Evidence: Schools give limited academic credits for varsity participation
Evidence: They don’t get to have the option of education in all the different dimensions of what they do
Words to look up:
intercollegiate: existing or conducted between colleges or universities.
Salvageable: capable of being saved from ruin
commerce: the activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale.
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