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ECU should reconsider the areas that they are distributing their funds
Lauren Collins
Issue date: 12/4/08 Section: Opinion
I discussed the coach's salary with a football player, and he seemed to share little concern about Holtz's astounding pay. He informed me that many of the guys playing football are currently working with full-ride scholarships including tuition, books and housing. I'm sure if I could receive the all-expenses-paid package to ECU for playing a game, I wouldn't be so shocked and appalled by the football coach's outrageous salary either. In the players' defense, they do train for almost the entire year, and their athletic ability has allowed them to have their scholarship privileges, but what about the average Joes that walk the campus each day?
All my life, it has been reiterated that grades are important and academic success will determine your future success. It has come to my attention now that the university may seem to care more about the rising status of our sports teams than the academic performance of our students. I will give some credit to Skip Holtz, who implemented a study hall for the players, but his coaching only affects a small fraction of the thousands of students attending ECU, so perhaps ECU should reconsider the allocation of so much money to their football coach and spread it more evenly to other areas as well.
This writer can be contacted at opinion@theeastcarolinian.com.
All my life, it has been reiterated that grades are important and academic success will determine your future success. It has come to my attention now that the university may seem to care more about the rising status of our sports teams than the academic performance of our students. I will give some credit to Skip Holtz, who implemented a study hall for the players, but his coaching only affects a small fraction of the thousands of students attending ECU, so perhaps ECU should reconsider the allocation of so much money to their football coach and spread it more evenly to other areas as well.
This writer can be contacted at opinion@theeastcarolinian.com.
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Matt
posted 12/03/08 @ 9:36 PM EST
Your an idiot!
Lee
posted 12/03/08 @ 9:45 PM EST
ROFL. This bitch is an idiot.
Ryan
posted 12/03/08 @ 9:48 PM EST
Lauren,
You make some very good points and I wish there was more money to go around to help out with supplies, teacher salaries, etc. Although our football team is ultimately the flagship of our great institution. (Continued…)
Brian
posted 12/04/08 @ 12:51 AM EST
Athletics is a sense of pride and also a source of revenue. We cannot hope to be competitive in the state unless we are competitive, and part of that competition comes in academics, but part of it also comes in athletics. (Continued…)
Hmm
posted 12/04/08 @ 2:46 AM EST
And my personal pet bitch about them? They feel it necessary to charter special buses to ferry the entire GD team to the Greenville Hilton, before a HOME game, no less, and then charter buses to ferry them back to the game the next day. (Continued…)
Philippi
posted 12/04/08 @ 3:16 AM EST
Lauren Im sure that when the Wall Street Journal calls you and offers you that $500,000 contract, which is the only reason you are writing this absurd article, you wont have a problem accepting it. (Continued…)
Jason
posted 12/04/08 @ 9:43 AM EST
Lauren, until you're an alumni and can donate your money to whichever cause you decide to, I suggest you write about other subjects. Clearly your knowledge and lack of real research or intelligent thought are clouding your input on this subject. (Continued…)
Joel
posted 12/04/08 @ 10:40 AM EST
That is not true about the aging equipment in the writing center. Those printers get refreshed every 4 years and replaced as needed if they break. The lab coordinators are the ones that set how much a student can print in any given lab. (Continued…)
Vanessa
posted 12/04/08 @ 12:45 PM EST
Just because something has always been done a certain way doesn't make it right.
And -- correct me if I'm wrong -- the football players are all adults, all grown men, right? Shouldn't they be able to get to bed on time without a chaperon?
jimbo327
posted 12/04/08 @ 3:04 PM EST
Let see, were Virginia Tech, Boston College, Miami, Florida State invited to be part of the ACC because of their great academic standing (which most of these school if not all are ranked in the top 100 schools in the nation), no they became part of the ACC because they had great sports teams. (Continued…)
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