 | Education Secretary wants NCAA reform...says March Madness Rewards Teams with Poor AcademicsScotty Starnes | March 18, 2011 at 8:30 AM | Tags: Education Secretary Arne Duncan, March Madness, NCAA | Categories: Political Issues | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-4M9 |
Our education system sucks and the Secretary of Education is worried about college basketball teams with poor academics playing in the NCAA tournament. How about concentrating on our public schools and why test scores haven't improved over the past 50 + years?
ABCNews reports:
ABC News' Mary Bruce Reports: Education Secretary Arne Duncan, a well-known basketball fan and former pro player, frequently plays hoops with President Obama, but today he's taking on the NCAA in a full court press.
Guess Duncan is upset because ESPN didn't ask him to fill out his bracket like they did Obama.
Duncan today called for the NCAA to impose stricter academic requirements on teams, saying schools that graduate less than half of their players should be banned from "post season glory."
"If you can't manage to graduate half of your players, how serious is the institution and the coach and the program about their players' academic success? Are you actually preparing your student athletes for success just on the court, or in life?" Duncan told reporters on a conference call this afternoon.
Most of these players couldn't get into college without special treatment and academic exemptions. The only reason they're in college is due to their athletic abilities, not academic qualification.
Based on the Secretary's benchmark, ten of the 68 men's teams in this year's March Madness would be ineligible.
Duncan highlighted financial revenue as a key piece of the puzzle and called out institutions for "making millions on their players backs."
Let me guess. The Obama regime wants a cut of the profit?
According to a report by the Knight Commission, over the past five years $179 million, almost half of the money awarded for appearances in the tournament, went to teams that failed to graduate at least half their players.
...Only eight men's teams in this year's tournament graduated 100 percent of their black and white players in recent years, including Illinois, Villanova and Utah State. In the women's tournament, one in three teams are graduating 100 percent of their white and black players.
Several schools have huge discrepancies. Kansas State, for example, graduated 100 percent of their white players, but only 14 percent of black players, an 86 percent discrepancy. At UC Santa Barbara it's a 67 percent difference. At USC it's 62 percent.
Oh...its about skin color. Nothing shocking considering this administration is obsessed with race.
A significant gap also exists between the women's and men's team. At the University of Connecticut, for example, more than 90 percent of the white and black players on the women's team graduate. The men's team, however, is barely on track to graduate half of their players and only 25 percent of black players earn a degree.
Did they take into consideration that many of these players drop out to turn professional to earn millions of dollars? Concentrate on our public school kids that are suffering from our terrible liberal education system.
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