Further evidence of how college athletics have corrupted even 'prestigious' schools like the academies. 80% of the people attending the prep schools are athletes who couldn't qualify for admission otherwise which makes them an outrageous waste of taxpayer money and a joke for even existing. Then you conveniently forget the purpose of the academies and turn them into taxpayer funded training grounds for the NFL. Obscene.
Well that’s certainly one take on it.
As a former college athlete I apologize for corrupting Kings Point....
The number of people this would apply to is infinitesimally small and in my opinion is reasonable. We probably lose more cadets and midshipmen to drug busts than this would effect and this would have essentially no effect on end strength numbers.
People argue we spent XYZ dollars on training the person, okay, then have them pay back XYZ dollars +whatever penalty you want.
Oh, they took a spot from someone who would have been a great officer.....you have proof for that? How can you say X person would have even finished the first summer. You can’t, so unfortunately we can’t really use that as a factor.
The academies will become a free factory for pro sports....no, the academies still have control over admissions and the vast majority of high caliber athletes won’t all the sudden come flooding for a free education...they already get that as a scholarship athlete AND no regimental life.
As an educator I will take a college athlete (or really any life-long athlete) over someone else 100% of the time when they are at least similar otherwise. The athlete has proven they know how to take instruction, interpret that instruction, and put it into action. They have also been placed in situations of high perceived value (bottom of the 9th, 4th and goal, PK to win, etc) and performed. An otherwise capable student has no track record and only theoretical application of taking an educational curriculum and interpreting that for a test. While valuable it is nowhere close to the same.