U Conn is defeated

[MarxSchmarx]

UConn woman's basketball's insane 90 game winning streak ground to a halt in a rather clear trouncing by Stanford. As best I gather the record is only bested in the NCAA or NBA by Iowa's woman's basketball that operated under somewhat different rules.Anyway kudos to Stanford, they played amazingly well and UConn although fighting back couldn't pull this win out. I thought they'd go further but it's a legacy,they should be proud.

[FreeFocus]

Yeah, it's always kind of sad when these types of historic runs are ended. It was very impressive though and generated a lot of excitement about women's bball.

[TC]

I don't care about sports but I like that people of both genders identify with teams of female athletes instead of only teams of male athletes.

That said, the fact that student athletes in America get scholarships, support, and entrance to universities as a result of athletics is ridiculous, a scandal, and should frankly be outlawed (as should giving preference to donors and alumni's children)

[FreeFocus]

I don't care about sports but I like that people of both genders identify with teams of female athletes instead of only teams of male athletes.

That said, the fact that student athletes in America get scholarships, support, and entrance to universities as a result of athletics is ridiculous, a scandal, and should frankly be outlawed (as should giving preference to donors and alumni's children)

I agree about legacy policies, but to be fair, there are many thousands of students who were and are able to attend college as a result of athletic scholarships. Obviously this would be done away with in a post-capitalist society, but for a lot of kids this is a key opportunity right now.

[Blackscare]

I agree about legacy policies, but to be fair, there are many thousands of students who were and are able to attend college as a result of athletic scholarships. Obviously this would be done away with in a post-capitalist society, but for a lot of kids this is a key opportunity right now.


This. I know a lot of poor kids who play sports religiously hoping that one day they can get a scholarship out of it. I also know lots of people who did just that and are now attending University. "Outlawing" athletic scholarships would do nothing to help anyone, it would only take away opportunities from young people who may otherwise have no way of going to school.

[TC]

Scholarships should be based on financial need and academic merit, since the former is relevant to finances and the later is relevant to studying/research - when universities create athletic scholarships they're often directly taking that away from financial aid and academic merit scholarships since the very best funded schools are needs blind and fully fund students according to financial need (and do not have athletic scholarships).

Moreover actually awarding a place at university for athletics is directly taking away a place from another poor kid who studied hard, doing something applicable to college/university, instead of playing a game.

In any cases, university coaches are paid obscene amounts of money and university athletics take advantage of their students even while privileging them against other students.

Why not encourage poor kids to study and write religiously instead - and motivate them to do the type of work that will serve them for the rest of their lives instead of something that is only useful to non-professionals (i.e. virtually all of them) during college applications? The fact that poor people are made to play the game doesn't mean the game is justified it just means that its easy to manipulate the incentive structure if you have the power to do so.

[black magick hustla]

tbh, atleast were i study, football and basketball are self substitent so nobody is "removing" anybody's scholarship. the sport actually generates money for athletic scholarships.

anyway, i dont think in communist societies there will be such things as universities. universities are the failure of will and imagination of a society that makes education a separate institution. school, university, etcetera, are one of the worst aspects of division of labor

[Fawkes]

I'm originally from CT and people follow UConn women's bball here fucking religiously. They're our version of a pro sports team, and yeah, it is nice that it's a women's team in the limelight for once.