although my university sucks in many ways, i love the fact that its not sports popular and that most classes are not in session on fridays.

Anyway, this instructor seems funny and interesting. If he knows his subject well, he could make for a great teacher.

Reactions are based on experience. Based on his reactions he’s probably been “requested” to let the sports players get away with things normal students can not or to pass the unworthy… most of the time (but not limited to) unintelligent football players. It’s frustrating. I think he’s wrong for wanting college sports stopped because there are benefits but he’s right in the mind set that it corrupts students. Football brings in alot of money to colleges with good teams but those players (unless actually intelligent) are rendered useless after college…

The show married with children… Al Bundy… football star of his time turned shoe salesmen… that stupid scenario has some truth to it. Some universities put sports above education and the only people that suffer are the students in the end when they can no longer play. It happens every where…..

Why pick on football though? Lets get rid of Greek life as well. We all know that is just an excuse for white people to join gangs and do other illegal stuff under the protection of the University. Not surprisingly, no great classical or modern scientific thinker has ever enjoyed sports entertainment at the amateur or professional level. Touey, I respect your opinion on why you think Football sucks. You teach at Temple. Just don’t try to rationalize this subjective opinion or assert it as though it is some higher moral value. You sound worse than a Fundamentalist Christian trying to justify his faith in the Lawd. Its time for superstitious dogmas and irrational behaviors like hating college sports for no rational reason to cease. Please step back and put this in perspective. You sound like a retard when you say things like this and everyone would agree you are a very intelligent man.

A professor is paid to facilitate subject material to the student, and to challenge the student intellectually. Somewhere along the line, Ramon, a lot of proffs apparently experience a blurring of the line between cognitions and affect. Soon, some proffs regard a challenge as a challenge, without paying close attention to what it is they’re challenging. After awhile, the proffs seem to reduce themselves to challenging the student emotionally rather than intellectually. (Borderline personality disorder, anyone?) It’s supposed to be college, but from what I’ve been reading from some of the proffs on this site, one could almost believe it’s an audition for Jerry Springer.

I remain unimpressed by any proff who feels the compulsion to insult his or her students. It has absolutely no place in the student/teacher relationship. In fact, it eventually becomes destructive to the learning process, since both the student and the proff end up putting each other on the defensive. I’ve seen it occur many times and it’s sad. Is it out of line to expect more professionalism from a university professor than from a 19 year old college kid who lacks self discipline? I can’t imagine that professors are incapable of considering the source.

Important news for you kids: Your parents use vulgar language sometimes. They also have had intercourse and probably enjoyed sex during their lives. And you can rest assured that your grandparents also had intercourse. (Not my grandparents, however.)

It’s good that he thinks he’s great, because damn few others do.

You answered your own question about why he doesn’t support college sports.

Hopefully, you will learn how to think critically your second go around at school.

This is all available if you kids spent less time playing Guitar Hero and more time in a library database. But, you won’t. You’re fully prepared to vote for the next American Idol, so that sufficies for most of you as an “education.”

The Ivy league is also full of students with rich families… who don’t need scholarships..

“How many top rated academic schools have strong athletic programs? Or even the second tier schools?

I rest my case.

Sports are a distraction and most jocks are idiots.”

The ivy league is one of the strongest conferences in a number of sports and they achieve this without giving out scholarships to athletes based on their abilities. The only assistance to athletes at these institutions are those based on academic ability

I rest my case.

Sports are a distraction and most jocks are idiots.

In response to Jordy:
It’s probably because of people and attitudes like yours that professors like Dr Touey dislike college sports. Some of us are on student loans or working jobs just to stay at school. What’re YOU doing? You’re playing sports and skipping class. It’s a terrible irony that those of us who are at an university for the academics find the university dependent on people like you for funding.

Most jocks go the easy route and major in easy degrees like business and physical education. How many get degrees in demanding disciplines? 1 in 100 is a generous estimate.

It’s a rebuttle, it’s his opinion. No one’s saying he’s right… chill out.

On the contrary, I have a lot of admiration and respect for the student athletes who are using their scholarship for the right reason, which is to get a degree, rather than wasting it just to go pro and end up failing at the pro level like a lot of athletes tend to do. I tip my hat to those student athletes who stay in school, get their degree and become a productive person in society instead of risking their education and future by going pro and possibly failing. After they fail, they will just be another uneducated person sitting on their couch telling themselves, “I should’ve done this, or that.”

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go buy my season tix for this upcoming football season…to my college, where almost EVERY player graduates.

“Oh ****, I know I never went to class and oh ****, I never did a reading, or passed a test, but I need a C average to stay on the sports team and its the only reason I’m here…can you bump my grade from an F to a C please? I’d be forever thankful…”

Conversely: I have had the pleasure of having some strong students (who are also varsity athletes) in my class (Logan – posted above – appears to be one of those athletes). Based on my experience solely (in 5 universities I have attended and taught at) I would not agree with the harmful generalization that that ‘jocks are idiots’.

I just happen to see very little academic benefit to university sports in general (extra curricular stuff is fine). We should not be relying on money from corporations or sports teams to fund something like academia. EDUCATION SHOULD BE FREE, and supported by the state!!! What better investment could there be in a Nation?

By the way: don’t get so upset by this discussion. Sports are not going to disappear from campuses any time soon for the reasons stated by Logan primarily (don’t you have a problem with being exploited for the benefit of an academic institution, athletes?).

If you want to get upset, you should all inquire into how much money your universities make on parking & parking fines!

PS: I am a Proff. This diversion was fun, thanks. Keep asking critical questions.