crytical anaylasis
Title: crytical anaylasis
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crytical anaylasis
Games Colleges Play
Parents that have children who are involved in intercollegiate athletics should be concerned about their child’s education. College athletics have taken a toll on their athletes and it is being seen in the classroom first. In 1991 the Knights Commission Report called for a new model whereby intercollegiate athletics would “keep faith with the student athlete” ideal. (Thelin 1980) Today colleges are recruiting and spending more money on athletes then they are scholars.
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they should be the ones to suffer.
The statements that Thelin offers support my thesis that intercollegiate athletics promote scandal make the school a “booster” college, and they have an effect on the athlete’s education. The findings from this book also validate my feelings towards the fact that athletes should be winners in the classroom as well as on the field.
Bibliography
Thelin, John R. “Games Colleges Play” Scandal and Reform in Intercollegiate Athletics. (1980) 3-61.
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