Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 5:54 pm
That is why I don't like the APR penalties as they are written. Some of what athletics programs are about is taking a chance on kids who would otherwise not get to go to college. If they were scholars, they wouldn't need the athletic scholarship. Coaches have taken advantage of this for years, getting kids who shouldn't be in school, just to win. Designing ways the athletes could pass their classes without ever really working towwards a major. That is what should be stopped. These kids should be working toward a real major and be keeping up with their class work. The APR does nothing to help that, if anything it gives coaches and programs one more reason to cheat.