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<blockquote data-quote="Second and Chalmers" data-source="post: 1402330" data-attributes="member: 527609"><p>One might argue that many D1 athletes, especially in the revenue sports, are admitted despite educational backgrounds that give them little chance for success in college-level work, that programs expend little to no effort to bridge that gap beyond just keeping the players eligible as athletes, and that such cases are disproportionately among black males, reproducing the broader inequalities in society.</p><p></p><p>One might then counter-argue though that an up-front financial incentive to graduate for athletes would create a draw for players, especially those same black males, to commit to schools that will help them graduate.</p><p></p><p>One might then counter-counter argue that the UNC-type stuff would only get worse if programs had to "graduate" their players in order to survive in recruiting.</p><p></p><p>This stuff isn't easy. Gotta be careful. But these are the right questions to be asking.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Second and Chalmers, post: 1402330, member: 527609"] One might argue that many D1 athletes, especially in the revenue sports, are admitted despite educational backgrounds that give them little chance for success in college-level work, that programs expend little to no effort to bridge that gap beyond just keeping the players eligible as athletes, and that such cases are disproportionately among black males, reproducing the broader inequalities in society. One might then counter-argue though that an up-front financial incentive to graduate for athletes would create a draw for players, especially those same black males, to commit to schools that will help them graduate. One might then counter-counter argue that the UNC-type stuff would only get worse if programs had to "graduate" their players in order to survive in recruiting. This stuff isn't easy. Gotta be careful. But these are the right questions to be asking. [/QUOTE]
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