excerpt from ESPN article. http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/1...cisco-49ers-becoming-known-west-coast-defense
The real story? Florida State won the final BCS title. In the run-up or the postgame, did you see any media coverage about the Seminoles' 58 percent football graduation rate? The team's 2007 cheating scandal that led to probation? The program's recent history of classifying many players as learning-disabled, waiving most classroom requirements? Any mention that though Florida State had $48 million in football revenue in the last school year, it still charges every undergraduate $245 annually to subsidize NCAA sports?
At Florida State, 65 percent overall of African-American students graduate, but only 50 percent of African-American football players do. Why was the sports media silent on these Florida State issues? Seminoles boosters and alums who are proud of the crystal trophy should feel embarrassed by the football program's subsidies and poor classroom performance. Of the 11 Seminoles selected in last year's NFL draft, eight graduated.
Good for them! But what about the much larger number of Florida State football players who will never take a snap in the NFL, and never walk to "Pomp and Circumstance?" They are used up and thrown away. Florida State and its coaches exploit those players; the sports media is complicit.
You can mock education all you, but at the end of the day that coaching staff in Tallahassee could care less about what truly happens to the young men who join their program once they are no longer able to contribute or are replaced by someone younger. So when you don't make the NFL and don't have a degree you can read about Jimbo Fisher getting another 2 million raiser while you can barely support your family. When Jimbo sits in a parent's home and tell him that he is looking out for the best interest of their child it's a flat out lie.
The real story? Florida State won the final BCS title. In the run-up or the postgame, did you see any media coverage about the Seminoles' 58 percent football graduation rate? The team's 2007 cheating scandal that led to probation? The program's recent history of classifying many players as learning-disabled, waiving most classroom requirements? Any mention that though Florida State had $48 million in football revenue in the last school year, it still charges every undergraduate $245 annually to subsidize NCAA sports?
At Florida State, 65 percent overall of African-American students graduate, but only 50 percent of African-American football players do. Why was the sports media silent on these Florida State issues? Seminoles boosters and alums who are proud of the crystal trophy should feel embarrassed by the football program's subsidies and poor classroom performance. Of the 11 Seminoles selected in last year's NFL draft, eight graduated.
Good for them! But what about the much larger number of Florida State football players who will never take a snap in the NFL, and never walk to "Pomp and Circumstance?" They are used up and thrown away. Florida State and its coaches exploit those players; the sports media is complicit.
You can mock education all you, but at the end of the day that coaching staff in Tallahassee could care less about what truly happens to the young men who join their program once they are no longer able to contribute or are replaced by someone younger. So when you don't make the NFL and don't have a degree you can read about Jimbo Fisher getting another 2 million raiser while you can barely support your family. When Jimbo sits in a parent's home and tell him that he is looking out for the best interest of their child it's a flat out lie.
