Alabama tracking students' locations to penalize them for leaving games early

Post by LoSboccacc » Sat, Sep 14, 2019, 5:33 AM UTC

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it's self evident if you ever been trough schooling, but since you want to play the evidence game let's start from a systemic study about team sport, socialization and psychological health https://ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1479-5868-...

If I thought the premise was self-evident, I would not have wasted my time challenging you. The review you cited covers effects of participation in team sport on physical well-being and certain markers of psychological well-being, but you claimed that sport builds character. Perhaps I assumed a different meaning from the one you intended, but when I hear people going on about sport building character, they're usually…

Post by kelnos » Sat, Sep 14, 2019, 8:37 AM UTC

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> We let students major in theater, but not in football. Well, we usually don't call it “football” specifically, but “exercise science” or something similar is commonly available. And Baylor has “general studies”, which despite the generic name is intended to support “general career areas of health, fitness, recreation, and sport”, and that's what most of their football players major in.

I’ll also throw out that when I played (D3) football in college, the intellectual load of the sport was higher than in some of my academic classes. We’d spend an hour a day studying film, and on the field we were expected to know understand how our actions would effect multiple other parties in a system. I still think I got more (intellectually) out of college level football than I did out of intro level sociology.

Post by kelnos » Sat, Sep 14, 2019, 8:57 AM UTC

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> Those schools are often actually cheaper than public schools for people without much money. While this is true on paper, it's not always the case in practice. I was able to get multiple acceptance offers to Ivy League schools, and poor enough to have the sliding scale of tuition slide all the way to $0. But all of them had an estimated cost of attendance[1] so optimistic about ancillary expenses during the school y…

If you were accepted into multiple Ivies with full financial aid you were definitely eligible for work study and student loans. Personally, I would recommend anyone in that situation to opt for the Ivy as it really does open doors later in life.

Post by skinnymuch » Sat, Sep 14, 2019, 12:34 PM UTC

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> Why can't the American football industry run itself more like the American baseball industry? I am a very strong opponent of the overwhelming sports culture at American universities, and of the absurd sums of money spent to sustain it. (Example: Dabo Swinney was just given a $93 million contract to remain the football coach of Clemson.) This >Defenders of the current system will often claim that football is profita…

You don't buy it? But here we are... two total strangers with (presumably) no relationship to the University of Alabama, discussing the University of Alabama because of their football program that got their university into the New York Times and onto the homepage of Hacker News. I guess we can debate whether "positive" equals "positive sentiment" or "positive success in generating brand awareness." However, the fact…

Post by lonelappde » Sat, Sep 14, 2019, 12:55 PM UTC

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If you were accepted into multiple Ivies with full financial aid you were definitely eligible for work study and student loans. Personally, I would recommend anyone in that situation to opt for the Ivy as it really does open doors later in life.

> ... and student loans With so many students exiting college with crippling debt, I'm not sure this is still a sustainable way of paying your way. Work study can certainly help, but the pay of even a fairly skilled job will fall far, far short of the cost of tuition, room and board, textbooks, etc.