Over week 5 we concentrated on sports within education and programs teaching young athletes. High Schools are a major part of an athlete’s life finding what they like and what they want to play. Only a microscopic percent of athletes actually play outside of high school so for most people it is the highlight of their sporting careers where they can feel important and participate. For the athletes who make to college and professional sports, they have to be the best of the best and willing to put everything into the sport played.
Problems with young athletes playing sports during their education are facts like not paying attention to school and taking money away from the education parts and not the athletic ones. The article I found was a recent battle in Rutgers where the faculty has had enough at the college with the changes happening like bigger classes in run down buildings not being repaired. Another big problem they are having is with frozen salaries and cuts happening in a lot of important groups. Board members at the University have fought back saying that the athletic programs only take around 1 percent from the budget and has cut $1 million from them already this year. The football and basketball programs generate a lot to support themselves and compete in the Big East with other good universities. Given the prestige from these sports the school is recognized nationally as a great athletic school. If they were to cut from the programs you would see less scholarships to bring in star athletes, higher ticket prices, and less of everything dealing with the sports. Board memebers want students to vote on the issue as even though students say they would rather spend $300 added into their tuition on something other then sports, they would complain about paying for tickets to the games like football and basketball, which are free.
Education is the most important part in a young persons life and should be viewed that way. But with education, sports teach valuable lessons to students as well. By cutting the budgets for Rutgers sports faculty have the right idea in wanting better learning facilities but shouldn’t blame sports for the problems. They should view all aspects of what is important and unimportant to them and the students.
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