Letters to the Editor
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Third Man
It's all a matter of degrees my friend.
The idea that schools do whatever they can to get your money from you is not news to anyone who ever went to one :)
The difference is, they don't make tens of (hundreds of?) millions of dollars off the average dude that dropped out of his Psych program in Junior year, but they sure do make TONS of money on them athletes...even those who do graduate end up with an essentially useless degree. (somebody here had a few brilliant posts about this about a month back - a professor himself? Amerigo I think?).
Which is not to say that the stats you unearthed aren't interesting, they are...it's just that they don't really contradict the fact that university athletes are used (yes used) by the institutions to make hundreds of millions of dollars and they get very little in return.
cheers,