Professors vs Coaches

WKBW-TV ran a story today on how a representative in Wisconsin wants to cut college costs by having professors video record their lectures and then, basically, dismiss the professors and have the students watch the lectures. This is because professors cost too much?

Why even bother with college at all? Just go to a web-site like the Great Courses, buy the courses you need , and get a college degree. Same concept.

Better idea: look at how much money is being paid to the football and basketball coaches (and others like hockey, baseball, and swimming) and then see how many courses those people are teaching. And I'm not talking pointless phys-ed courses for general education credit. I want them teaching courses that are required for an actual bachelors, masters, or PhD degree.

And then ask – why are these effectively part time positions being paid so much?

Yes, coaching is a part time position. Football lasts how long? August through January (if you are lucky enough to be in a bowl game) and then – poof! Season over. Basketball goes? Hockey? Baseball? Swimming? Is there even a professional swimming league? And what college did Serena & Venus Williams play for before going pro? Seriously.

And when talking about college costs, we need to look at how much of what a college takes in goes to actual education and how much is wasted on sports programs that run in the red year after year. Kind of like that stock that people buy that never makes any money but that they hang onto because sometime in the future it might? This yea we might get invited to a bowl game or make it to March Madness. Don't ask me about the other sports. They are pretty well ignored by the media.

So, parents and college students need to put their collective feet down and say no more of their college tuition for programs that do not contribute to education. At $1.3 trillion in college loans out there, how much of that paid for education and how much subsidized a pipe dream that no one should have been smoking?

And police are arresting who for possession?

They should go into the administrative offices of colleges with those drug sniffing dogs because what the administrators are practicing is far from good business sense.