I really think schools should offer legitimate majors for athletes in “football” or “basketball” and so on. It’s easy to imagine academic courses in sports (history, strategy/theory, analytics, etc) and colleges certainly offer less practical majors (which are also good!)
@mattbrown.bsky.socialNEW EXTRA POINTS:
Forget trying to move college sports further away from academics. What if we tried to actually integrate them WAY more?
From sport majors to athlete classes and more. Here's *research* on why it could work, and who is already doing it:
www.extrapointsmb.com/p/here-s-wha...
extrapointsmb.com
Here's what ACTUALLY integrating college sports with academics could look like
With real world examples and everything!
