applied economics wrote:
Do you mean athletic grants? This all has to stop. The civilized countries of the world send their teenagers and those in their early twenties to college tuition free. Fully fund public universities and truly show private colleges the meaning of demand and supply. Many private colleges will go out of business. Some will be bought by federal government. Some private college will merge with other private colleges and the big 12, not the athletic conference but the eight Ivy League schools, C.I.T., M.I.T., U. of Chicago and Stanford will survive on their endowments.
* 1550 years ago, who would have predicted Roman Empire would fall;
* 125 years ago, who would have predicted England would be just another meaningless little country;
* 35 years ago, not even in the wildest dreams of Reagan and H.W. Bush could they have predicted Soviet Union would fall in a few years.
No way will this continue forever. A hand full of 6'4" 275 lbs, guys who sprint 40 yard dash sub-4.6 attend college for free but everyone else has to borrow up to 1/4 million to complete their education. No. Fox News and MSNBC can make many of you today argue about gay marriage, trans issues and abortion so no one demands free college, but if we look at my three examples, changes do occur.
I don't think you are right. There are posts all the time about minimum standards to make teams on letsrun. Find any rinky dink tiny college in the US and they have met the number of male distance runners they wanted. Most picked the school to run for a team. Plenty of average hs runners pick a college for academics even though they can't run there or just have no interest in pursuing the sport, but there are enough to fill every ncaa team. They aren't going to attend a school that holds open tryouts though, unless they can't walk on anywhere. Distance runners want to be assured a spot before they show up.
If this weren't the case, nirca wouldn't exist.