Absurdity Quote by Charlie Pierce

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

— Milton Friedman

College athletes are workers, period. They are skilled and disciplined young people who deserve so much more than to be treated, in many cases,…

— Jamaal Bowman

Assimilating college sports into the university would prevent them from being run as autonomies or fiefdoms. And you don't need an NCAA bylaw or…

— Sally Jenkins

If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases…

— Bob Costas

I think it's wonderful that students can get scholarships to play athletics at universities. But the fact that you can't do that in the…

— Dean Cain

I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics…

— Susan Orlean

So much about big-time college sports is criticized. But the worst scandal is almost never mentioned: the academic fraud wherein the student-athletes, so-called, are…

— Frank Deford

Most college athletes are obsessed with getting to the pros, and many of them have proved they will do anything to get there, even…

— Jemele Hill

College athletics are so entrenched and enjoyed by so many people that they will never be discontinued or substantially changed. I know that. I…

— Susan Orlean

In the NBA, it's wins and losses. You don't have to deal with some of the hypocrisy of college athletics.

— Dwane Casey

At some point, universities have to do more to prepare players for university life and help them succeed beyond football. There's so much money…

— Josh Rosen

“College football would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There…

— H. L. Mencken