Reply #17: You know the answer, I know the answer [View All]

[nadinbrzezinski]

I was actually a GTA with the Football program at SDSU, essentially a person to help these kids with history 101, intro to Western Civ... so I got a look inside the beast. Those kids were NOT ready for college and god they were told that they would all reach the NFL if they applied themselves.

I have told the story before, but the Aztecs are not even a good program. not as a football team... but they meet Barely, the NCAA requirements or graduation and retention.

Before that experience I had a few issues with professional sports programs in college and lets not kid ourselves they are. After that experience I concluded they are the triple A teams for the NFL and the NFL should pay for them. You want a football program? Sure no problem... look SOUTH of the border, where intramural sports are something kids do on top of their studies not in spite of their studies. Sure universities have professional teams in the Soccer league... they are separate from academics.

And i mean the finance wall between those programs and the university proper are so tall people here cannot conceive of them. It is as if the teams only carry the name, which essentially they do... and their moneys do not mix with anything else. So the school does not depend on them for any alumni money.