Originally Posted by
MulletMan
So you're saying that if a 19 year old athlete makes the decision to leave school to follow an athletice dream, even if that is a fool-hardy choice (see: Joe Forte, Will Avery, etc. etc.), then they are more entitled to receive financial and academic assistance than say a non-athlete who left school to attempt to make a fortune bar tending or who felt like 19 was the perfect age to travel the world for several years? One of these students is more entitled to get help in completing their college degree?
You would prefer Will Avery get tuition assistance over a Duke undergrad who dropped out to participate in a start-up venture but then realized, after said start-up failed (as most do), that she really should have completed her Duke degree?
C'mon. The world doesn't revolve around sports, and the idea that the only thing that generates positive pub for Duke (or UNC for that matter) is sports success is making me ill. The fact is that Complete Carolina is simply a pandering gesture to appease the masses and give UNC apologists something to point to while the administration continues to ignore the facts. If the AfAm scandal wasn't about athletes, then why is Complete Carolina only about athletes? If non-athletes took all these sham courses, then why aren't they being invited back to complete their degrees? What about non-athletes that majored in AfAm (were there any)? Are they being invited back for a "Complete" education? For those AfAm majors who legitimately completed their degrees, what reciprocity are they being offered now that letters after their names are met with ridicule?
Complete Carolina is a Complete Joke.
This reminds me of the story of two divinity students arguing about whether one can smoke while praying. (Hey, I'm in Colorado -- who knows what fashionable these days in the Divinity Schools?) They agreed to consult two professors and came back with different answers. "I am incredulous," said one, upon learning that his colleague had found out it was OK to smoke during prayers. "What specifically did you ask?" His colleague responded, "I asked if it was all right to pray while smoking."
The Complete Carolina program was announced by the AD. Now, it turns out that the Athletic Department has a budget of $100 million or so (maybe more like $80M). It chooses to spend a small portion on getting athletes who left school to compete their studies and get a degree. Who can object to the UNC Athletic Department putting a trifle more into educating athletes?
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013