College spending on sports shows skewed priorities: Your Say

An editorial took universities to task for lavish spending on facilities for student-athletes to attract promising recruits (“ College (Wretched Excess) Bowl: Our view ”). Comments from Facebook are edited for clarity and grammar:

College behavior is far worse than what is described in Paste BN’s editorial. I know. I am a former math professor who most recently taught at an “elite” school.

Not only does the phrase “student-athlete” need to be enclosed in quotes, so does the word “student.” What used to be so quaintly thought of as a student is now thought of only as a customer.

— Mark Feldman

The Louisiana State University sports program gives over $7 million a year to the university to support academics, money it doesn’t get from students or taxpayers. Many successful sports programs help grow their universities.

— Dwayne Landry

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The big money universities spend on athletics just continues the joke that college is a learning experience that prepares students for a career. Professors don’t teach (teaching assistants interact with the students in labs; professors lecture to hundreds of students at a time).

It is a huge waste of money because most of the learning could be accessed online. Throwing in sports is just another distraction.

— Bill Johnson