98% won’t get a shoe contract, sign autographs or be inducted into the Hall of Fame. They will get something more valuable, a college degree.
I understand the intent of the ad. But it’s a poor ad. I’m guessing the 2% who get the shoe contract, sign autographs and get voted into the Hall of Fame do better financially.
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98% graduation rate, wow!
While I enjoy the collegiate game(s) across all sports and attend them regularly, I simply cannot stand the NCAA. Yes, the "system" helped my sons go to great schools and get a good education, but I think the NCAA is a lousy organization who routinely fakes what they're really interested in.
The other ad implying everyone is a racist got a little tiring by day three.
RJM posted:The other ad implying everyone is a racist got a little tiring by day three.
That is the one that I hate the most.
Don't think I've seen that one - link?
What is the percentage who get stuck with $50,000+ in student loans to pay off?
justbaseball posted:Don't think I've seen that one - link?
I'm guessing the others are referring to the ad below, though that take didn't occur to me when I watched it. I just assumed that the message was more about labeling people as dumb jocks, or not serious students.
RJM posted:98% won’t get a shoe contract, sign autographs or be inducted into the Hall of Fame. They will get something more valuable, a college degree.
The one I watched says "over 470,000...", not a percentage. And it also doesn't say "a college degree". It just says "something much more valuable." Very carefully chosen words. Slimy.
MidAtlanticDad posted:RJM posted:98% won’t get a shoe contract, sign autographs or be inducted into the Hall of Fame. They will get something more valuable, a college degree.
The one I watched says "over 470,000...", not a percentage. And it also doesn't say "a college degree". It just says "something much more valuable." Very carefully chosen words. Slimy.
That’s the ad. When I posted I wasn't looking back at the ad. I remembered he said only 2% will get yada yada .... To me it means 98% won’t. I hate these NCAA ads. They're very misleading to the general public.
Why not stick to real truths like, at most colleges athletes graduate at a rate higher than the general student population? What these ads are doing is combating the general perception of the Caliparis and Pitinos of the college coaching world where their players don't graduate. The bottom end of a passing team APR score is a joke.
justbaseball posted:While I enjoy the collegiate game(s) across all sports and attend them regularly, I simply cannot stand the NCAA. Yes, the "system" helped my sons go to great schools and get a good education, but I think the NCAA is a lousy organization who routinely fakes what they're really interested in.
I look at the NCAA two ways ...
1) They’re like the Mafia. They extort money from college sports while pretending to protect them.
2) They’re puppets of the powerful major conference college presidents.
I think the APR is a terrible metric only meant to prop up what the NCAA can claim about graduations. It forces coaches to push kids to less-than-useful classes and majors.
Exhibit A: UNC.
I actually laughed out loud when I read that the NCAA "Transfer Working Group" was considering a proposal that would allow kids with OVER a certain GPA to transfer from a D1 to a D1 without sitting a year.
So they are basically incentivizing a coach to make sure his players don't get good grades so that they can't easily transfer ? what the hell?
Apparently this proposal has been scrapped. but it was worth a laugh.
If the NCAA would form an advisory panel of parents of former athletes who are serious about proposing non-direct-revenue related improvements with the 'student athletes' in mind, they could make some headway.
But the reality is, any improvements along those lines would cost them at least some money, so they would have no interest. I completely get that its not a bottomless pool of cash, but their ads pander to the public about caring about these things - which is largely the foundation of my total disrespect of them.
