No one says to drop our standards. Stanford, Duke, Notre Dame and others retain academic rankings above UVA's, and can still attract talent and field decent teams. We admit people with all sorts of talents, and is every one subject to the same standards?
College Deans and Presidents have been talking for decades about the SATs being biased, and not being a good predictor of success. Harvard and others don't even require SATs. Could grades be reflective of poor teaching or different availability of learning tools? Every kid in Henrico public schools (Richmond area) has a computer from Elementary School onward. Poorer communities or different states probably can't afford that. Many kids have taken SAT prep courses at a cost pof $600 - $2,000 dollars. Some get a personal consultant costing even more. Schools and students without the financial resources are at a distinct disadvantage. And a fair amount of college football players come from that kind of background.
If it's really about academics, make the scholarship subject to maintaining a certain level of academic achievement. You could even pay NIL for students who achieve academic success by hiring them as spokespersons for the school. Or, let's use NIL money to sway kids that meet our standards to come here. That would easily pay back the NIL money in pure ticket sales alone.
In other words, we could have good football, maintain our reputation, and do financially better using a variety of approaches. But they don't want to find a way to succeed, they just want to squash football. We are too arrogant for our own good.
One good thing will come of this. Next year we'll have all day games since there won't be enough people attending to pay to turn the lights on.
https://augustafreepress.com/news/u...-are-perfectly-happy-with-things-as-they-are/
College Deans and Presidents have been talking for decades about the SATs being biased, and not being a good predictor of success. Harvard and others don't even require SATs. Could grades be reflective of poor teaching or different availability of learning tools? Every kid in Henrico public schools (Richmond area) has a computer from Elementary School onward. Poorer communities or different states probably can't afford that. Many kids have taken SAT prep courses at a cost pof $600 - $2,000 dollars. Some get a personal consultant costing even more. Schools and students without the financial resources are at a distinct disadvantage. And a fair amount of college football players come from that kind of background.
If it's really about academics, make the scholarship subject to maintaining a certain level of academic achievement. You could even pay NIL for students who achieve academic success by hiring them as spokespersons for the school. Or, let's use NIL money to sway kids that meet our standards to come here. That would easily pay back the NIL money in pure ticket sales alone.
In other words, we could have good football, maintain our reputation, and do financially better using a variety of approaches. But they don't want to find a way to succeed, they just want to squash football. We are too arrogant for our own good.
One good thing will come of this. Next year we'll have all day games since there won't be enough people attending to pay to turn the lights on.
https://augustafreepress.com/news/u...-are-perfectly-happy-with-things-as-they-are/
