It is important to keep these teams associated with the colleges and at the same time, drop all the restrictions that now apply. No more hypocrisy or exploitation. The players of the teams will still be playing on campus and will be associating with other students on campus. Generally, they get warehoused in one of the departments that's easy on athletes, and if they do get a degree someday, it isn't worth much. Athletics administrators and coaches must be removed from responsibility for academic integrity in college athletics.
Academic matters are the business of the faculty.
Placing responsibility for academic integrity in the hands of athletics officials and coaches is not only inappropriate and misplaced, it also is unfair to coaches and athletic officials, and most important, it allows faculty to avoid accountability. Our job as coaches is to win. That s what we get paid for, and that is our primary concern. The community support would also remain the same under this proposal. We will still be providing the community with high quality athletics that the entire town can be proud of.