• What do you think of his argument that academic institutions are responsible to carry out "public entertainment" through athletics? Do you agree?
• Additionally, what specific suggestions did Stoke make almost 60 years ago that you think are relevant for todayand what does he suggest that you believe is not relevant in this era of college athletics?

References:

https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-money-and-march-madness-1/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-shame-of-college-sports/308643/ https://youtu.be/BuIpyyfTIGw

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/march-madness-ncaa-fights-full-court-press-on-player-pay/

http://grantland.com/features/ed-obannon-vs-ncaa/

https://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/9521439/heisman-winner-johnny-manziel-celebrity-derail-texas-aggies-season-espn-magazine

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Agree or Disagree with my answer below?why?

 

• After reading Stoke's ideas surrounding academic institutions' responsibility to "public entertainment", I agree that academic institutions are scrambling to defend their sports programs as "academic" rather than for what they are: entertainment.
• Stoke makes many recommendations throughout the piece that I believe can be applied to college athletics today. Firstly, he makes a point by saying that both college sports and college education will be better off if they both "relinquish" one another. Stoke states one of the first steps he suggests to be made is "the restoration of institutional and personal integrity." Stoke is essentially saying that it is time for colleges to give up the act of defending college athletics as "educational." This statement reminds me of the last discussion post, because Stoke is arguing that there really is nothing educational about these massive collegiate sports programs, and I think he would agree that there is almost nothing amateur about collegiate athletes, too. Stoke also makes a suggestion about "sentimentality," which I think is not as relevant today. I believe that most people understand the business that college sports have become, thus I don't think this suggestion is as relevant as some of the others that he makes.