Jason Gay of the Wall Street Journal asks: "What if Rutgers is Everyone?"
What if this fiasco could actually change something? What if the mess in the athletic department at Rutgers could trigger a cultural shift, or at least hit the pause button, on the consuming madness of college sports? What if it provoked a reconsideration of the whole crazy thing—how students playing games for schools has become such a craven business vulnerable to envy and greed and poor judgment?
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What almost always drags these colleges down are the very things they are pursuing: wins and attention, but mostly money, money and money.
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What if this could happen? What if this kind of thinking was possible? What if this could be a launch pad to re-examine the whole flawed passion that is college sports?
It's probably just hopeless. And it's definitely naive.
What if this fiasco could actually change something? What if the mess in the athletic department at Rutgers could trigger a cultural shift, or at least hit the pause button, on the consuming madness of college sports? What if it provoked a reconsideration of the whole crazy thing—how students playing games for schools has become such a craven business vulnerable to envy and greed and poor judgment?
...
What almost always drags these colleges down are the very things they are pursuing: wins and attention, but mostly money, money and money.
...
What if this could happen? What if this kind of thinking was possible? What if this could be a launch pad to re-examine the whole flawed passion that is college sports?
It's probably just hopeless. And it's definitely naive.
