As of 8:10am this morning one of the finer programs in the country is lost due to "budgetary" problems.
No one saw it coming and they just recently signed some top level recruits that gave them one of the top 3 recruiting classes in the country.
Fort, have you ever considered the positive effect those football scholarships can have? How many of those scholarships are going to kids who can just barely get their test scores because the inner city schools are so bad? How many of them are giving kids a college education who otherwise wouldn't have had one? I can't speak for football, but I know for a fact that basketball scholarships have given a whole lot of kids a chance at a college education they would have never gotten were it not for basketball, I would assume that it is similar for the other big revenue sports though.
Also, perhaps girls are smarter and perhaps boys are more inclined to athletics, if we are arbitrarily assigning traits to a sex, might as well tack that one on.
You pointed this out in a previous discussion.
I have no problem with giving inner city kids scholarships. But axing women's Olympic programs so that more men can play football for 4 years and then retire? Why is that desirable? And is there something wrong with women excelling or surpassing men? If men need football scholarships and all its accompanying overhead and expense, then there are just less slots for men in other sports. Really, men are not in such dire straits as women were years ago. Just cut the budget for men's football to have more men's sports!! Don't penalize women.
I used the caveats "perhaps" and "seem" with reference to the boy-girl issue. I don't believe girls are less athletically inclined, although you do based on prior posts. If they are, or there is a perception that there is, it's at least partly socially instilled. All the more reason to keep women in sports to refute this inequitable stereotype. I'm sure this perception will be at least somewhat debunked 20 years from now .. the slow plodding nature of progress. I'm also just weary of the "oh woe is me" male attitude. "Male privilege," to use Carlos' term, is not the ultimate goal here. That apparently is a problem we're supposed to remedy, not reinforce.
Just giving you the leftist feminist perspective here ...
Fort, have you ever considered the positive effect those football scholarships can have? How many of those scholarships are going to kids who can just barely get their test scores because the inner city schools are so bad? How many of them are giving kids a college education who otherwise wouldn't have had one? I can't speak for football, but I know for a fact that basketball scholarships have given a whole lot of kids a chance at a college education they would have never gotten were it not for basketball, I would assume that it is similar for the other big revenue sports though.
Also, perhaps girls are smarter and perhaps boys are more inclined to athletics, if we are arbitrarily assigning traits to a sex, might as well tack that one on.
You pointed this out in a previous discussion.
I have no problem with giving inner city kids scholarships. But axing women's Olympic programs so that more men can play football for 4 years and then retire? Why is that desirable? And is there something wrong with women excelling or surpassing men? If men need football scholarships and all its accompanying overhead and expense, then there are just less slots for men in other sports. Really, men are not in such dire straits as women were years ago. Just cut the budget for men's football to have more men's sports!! Don't penalize women.
I used the caveats "perhaps" and "seem" with reference to the boy-girl issue. I don't believe girls are less athletically inclined, although you do based on prior posts. If they are, or there is a perception that there is, it's at least partly socially instilled. All the more reason to keep women in sports to refute this inequitable stereotype. I'm sure this perception will be at least somewhat debunked 20 years from now .. the slow plodding nature of progress. I'm also just weary of the "oh woe is me" male attitude. "Male privilege," to use Carlos' term, is not the ultimate goal here. That apparently is a problem we're supposed to remedy, not reinforce.
Just giving you the leftist feminist perspective here ...
