I don't really care enough to actually have an opinion. But I don't mind it either.

I didn't watch that video but personally I hate my university. I love my academic college and the department, but the university itself is the worse. They charge us so much for things we don't use. I paid $250 for a "Student Life Fee"...wtf is that? Why am I paying for gym memberships for jocks as well? Or the huge fucking box office they built on the football stadium while not offering minorities in the areas scholarships? It isn't like having some blacks in my classes would break the school, but they probably can't pay "student life fees".....so having them in those empty chairs so they can hear the lecture is out of the question.

Also, my university has the bad habit of buying every foot of land in the area, knocking down the old Italianate buildings, and putting up the mass produced prefabricated buildings the capitalists love now days, the ones that are made so cheaply I could run through a wall if I needed to like the Kool Aid man and walls of brick are literally sheets made to look like brick glued to a board. They've knocked down so many houses when they're needed more than ever, they ran out the local high school adjacent to campus, they're trying to commercialize the largest public park in the neighborhood (voters crushed that but it was actually on the ballot that is how sickening it is), the cost of parking has come up exponentially, the past several police brutality incidents have been made by University police (not Cincinnati police who are the picture of professionalism)...super gentrification has happened over the past decade and it is mostly due to the rapid expansion of the University and imminent domain. Panhandling it is staggering in my neighborhood...there are homeless people everywhere and living in almost every wooded area, most of them young twentysomething whites or 50+ males of all kinds. The amount of beds available along the public housing continuum has diminished, which is funny, because it makes the numbers look as if less people are in needed of housing but only because less housing is available so less people are being served. Funny thing. That same university is the place that trained me to be a community organizer, case manager, psychotherapist, and future nonprofit CEO. Irony?

/e 10 credit hours of Spanish/other language mandatory for any student to graduate with a bachelors degree from my university, at ~$500 per credit hour. I didn't learn anything in those classes I didn't learn in the 5 years I took Spanish in primary school and still wouldn't consider myself fluent. If I had a Spanish speaking client I would still ask for a translator with an actual degree in Spanish

This post was edited by Skinned on Jan 6 2016 12:30pm

Because if the ticket booth was collecting money for black scholarships less people would support that. When the money stays in a single program its far less pragmatic. My high school dealt with the same problem when the soccer team bitched endlessly about the expensive box the football team got, until the highschool revealed the football team brings in 3000-4000% more revenue (no those numbers arent off), and that the funds came exclusively from a small portion of the football programs treasury.

Well academics definitely is second to sports at my university. The football team should spend money on parking garages then, because people descend my neighborhood like a swarm of locusts when a game is being played. Tow truck paradise. Btw my stolen truck still hasn't appeared (day three), victim of the Industrial Towing Complex here I bet.

This post was edited by Skinned on Jan 6 2016 12:33pm

thats every university. from D1 schools to D5 schools, at least in the way that sports programs see themselves. But that problem will never go away until we have a system that forces colleges to actually educate student athletes rather than renting them from high schools on their way to the NBA-NFL w/e. The NBA placed a rule that you have to be out of school 1 year before entering the draft, and we all know freshmen classes are so tough. Especially when you have a special sports program adviser that can steer you from one attendance based grade class to the next.

edit: sry bout the truck, i lost my cellphone last night and almost blew a gasket in anger.

This post was edited by thesnipa on Jan 6 2016 12:38pm

They should make them take a real major and not "sports management" or "athletic studies" lol.

Like Shaq, dominated the game, dominates the business world, completed a PhD, also works in law enforcement no doubt as a calling or at least some noblesse oblige. He is a product of the collegiate sports system I admire. The system isn't without merit. It just reflects the values of society in general, sports and athleticism is more important than knowledge, expertise, and education.

@bold Emotional Intelligence is a wonderful thing. I was able to stay rational and calm even as my heart rate elevated while I was searching for the right forms in my safe to report it stolen. Comes with training

This post was edited by Skinned on Jan 6 2016 12:42pm

Agreed but TBH if you make any requirements for players to stay out of school longer they will just stop going to college. I can see it now, pre-NBA leagues that highschoolers go to for 2-3 years before the NBA. I'm shocked that more players don't try moving directly to eu or china to hone their skills there in an environment free of academic distractions. And major requirements would be too tough to manage, i agree more people should get quality majors though, that extends beyond sports athletes.



I lost it at walmart, after dragging the wifey through 4 separate sections of the store looking for dinner, before she finally decided we should get subway. Then didn't realize it was lost until i went home 15 miles away. I'm not sure training can handle that sequence.

This post was edited by thesnipa on Jan 6 2016 12:45pm

I honestly think the NCAA is more competetive than EU, they also get name recognition that profession teams want.

This post was edited by nobrow on Jan 6 2016 09:45pm