universities should not have competitive sports teams

Competitive sports are not educationalCompetitive sports are not educational for the spectatorsMy opponent argues that watching sports is "education", but clearly, the educational aspect of watching sports is close to 0, because: Almost all spectators already know the rules of the game. There is hardly anything more to learn. There are no teachers, no explanations, and no exercises. The sports arenas are clearly not designed as educational environments. The main objective of watching college sports, is entertainment, not education.Competitive sports are not educational for the student athletesSure, the athletes themselves may learn something in their sports training. But do they get a degree in Football,or a degree in Basketball? No! Their sports is supposedly an extracurricular activity. Their involvement in sports distractsfrom earning an actual degree.CON:"Again, this deals with the student and how he or she is able to wisely delineate their time. It is unfair to say that any given student who plays a college sport is automatically going to be incapable of keeping up with his or her academics. And for the students who do have trouble with time management, there are resources that exist for the sole purpose of providing effective strategies to pursue college academics as well as athletics. At the end of the day, how academically successful a student becomes is not based on sports. It's based on the student."A wise time management for a student would be to study for the degree for most of the time, and do a bit of sports on the sidefor physical health. But there is enormous pressure on the student athletes to perform, to do rigorous training, weight exercises,etc. etc. On top of that, they have to travel all over the USA to play games. We cannot just blame it on the student. The problem is,that it is nearly impossible to have a semi-professional career while at the same time obtaining a degree, without one of the twohaving to suffer. Lowering standards for student athletesAs I have shown, there is evidence that universities lower the standards for student athletes for acceptance and for the evaluation of their academic performance. Some of the student athletes at the University of North Carolina could not even read or write.http://www.cnn.com..."As a graduate student at UNC-Greensboro, Willingham researched the reading levels of 183 UNC-Chapel Hill athletes who played football or basketball from 2004 to 2012. She found that 60% read between fourth- and eighth-grade levels. Between 8% and 10% read below a third-grade level.""The issue was highlighted at UNC two years ago with the exposure of a scandal where students, many of them athletes, were given grades for classes they didn't attend, and where they did nothing more than turn in a single paper. Last month, a North Carolina grand jury indicted a professor at the center of the scandal on fraud charges. He's accused of being paid $12,000 for a class he didn't teach."The problem is, that athletes who want to have a professional career, have to attend a university, even if they are not academically inclined. Instead, it would be better if academics and (semi-)professional sports were separate. Then a talented athletewould have the choice of taking classes at a university, local community college, learn a trade, or take no classes at all,and still have a pathway to the NFL, NBA, or other professional league.The stakes in professional semi-professional football are very high, which leads to corruption and lowering standards.Athletic Departments take away resources from AcademicsContra to what one might think, athletic departments are often not profitable.http://www.usatoday.com...Athletics takes away resources. This leads to increase in tuition, which make university less affordable for many students."There is no evidence provided that supports the claim that football coaches earn more money than the school president. But even if that is the case, this information does not support my opponent's reasoning as to why sports should be eliminated from schools."Well, this supports my case that sports takes away financial resources from academics.Salaries at the University of Michigan (just as an example, I'm from Michigan):President, Mary Sue Coleman, $603,357.00Director of Athletics, David Brandon, $800,000.00FINALLY: There is no good reason FOR combining (semi-)professional sports and universitiesUniversities in Europe do not have professional sports teams like in the USA.My opponent has not given a SINGLE argument for the ADVANTAGES of having the two together. So vote PRO!!!