California Community Colleges may lose all sports????

[anonlooker]

Tfarrier - to which specific community college are you refering when you say all but 1 sophomore graduated and went on scholarships to D1 and D2 schools?

[blackwidow]

**California has 2.5 million students in its community colleges - more than any other state. At the same time, California ranks below the national average and below similar states in the proportion of full-time, post-secondary students who earn four-year college degrees. The state spends more than $73,000 per degree earned, which exceeds the national average and spending in most comparable states.


**From this report requesting more "support" (ie. more money) to improve the situation.
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/9427

From a larger report that can be read here.
http://gse.berkeley.edu/research/pace/r ... B.07-2.pdf

Peace

[Surehitter]

tfarrier - You are an #@#!&^$ !!!!!!

The CC system was set up to educate and help young adults either learn a skill/trade or move to the next level. It was not until later that sports were introduced at the CC level so these young adults would not feel left out and get there feelings hurt. The level of play at CC programs is that of a strong high school varsity program, most the time it's worse and just like high school the attendees are parents / family and maybe a few students. If these athlete"s did not have there act together enough to make it to a Div 1, Div 2, Div 3 or a NAIA school than let them be a student.

[Imperial SB Dad]

No reason for name calling. Your opinion is your opinion and his is his. Let it be.

[BenAround]

I think Indian Hills CC should be the first one to go. They have a joke of an athletics programs plus they spend way too much money on exclamation marks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tds]

Well after reading all this dribble, it's clear that only the athleticaly gifted DD's and Sons should be aloud to play any sport.......... In California.

Allowed, not aloud.....guess you didn't go to college.

[Surehitter]

Imperial SB Dad - He started with the insults first and he is an #@!^%$!!

[AM Softball]

tfarrier - You are an #@#!&^$ !!!!!!

The CC system was set up to educate and help young adults either learn a skill/trade or move to the next level. It was not until later that sports were introduced at the CC level so these young adults would not feel left out and get there feelings hurt. The level of play at CC programs is that of a strong high school varsity program, most the time it's worse and just like high school the attendees are parents / family and maybe a few students. If these athlete"s did not have there act together enough to make it to a Div 1, Div 2, Div 3 or a NAIA school than let them be a student.

Good thing Crystal Bustos didn't listen to that. She played a JC and went straight to the pros and then Olympics. :/ smh If you've played the game, you don't want to be a student. You want to be a student-athlete.

[PDad]

The CC system was set up to educate and help young adults either learn a skill/trade or move to the next level. It was not until later that sports were introduced at the CC level so these young adults would not feel left out and get there feelings hurt. The level of play at CC programs is that of a strong high school varsity program, most the time it's worse and just like high school the attendees are parents / family and maybe a few students. If these athlete"s did not have there act together enough to make it to a Div 1, Div 2, Div 3 or a NAIA school than let them be a student.

Good thing Crystal Bustos didn't listen to that. She played a JC and went straight to the pros and then Olympics. :/ smh If you've played the game, you don't want to be a student. You want to be a student-athlete.

I don't think producing some professional athletes is an appropriate mission for a public school. That said, here is an excerpt from an interview with Crystl (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/sport ... =2&_r=2&hp):

She loved the palm trees and the idea of playing softball for two more years. She agreed to play there, not even realizing where “there” was.

“What’s really sad is, and this is how badly educated I was at the time, I didn’t even know where Florida was,” she said. “I’m in class and they pulled down the map and I go, ‘Holy crap, I flew from there to there?’ I came home and I was like: ‘Ma, you’ll never believe where I went. I went to Florida. It’s on the other side of the map.’ ”

Evidently, Crystl went to CC to play softball and benefited from continuing her education. Too many kids go to college to be an athlete and don't apply themselves enough as a student.

[Surehitter]

I would not use Bustos as an example of the problems we have with the CA CC system. Out of state CC's have $$$ for athletes, they recruited her to hit the ball and that she did. She attended for two years and did not continue her education. Great softball hitter !!

From the same article you took the other info from -

I’m 30 years old, and I’ve been traveling all over the world. I’m going to have, hopefully, three gold medals. And I’m going to go home to the same place doing the same old thing that I was doing probably 10 years ago: Not knowing what’s next.”

The only certainty is that it will include, after all, sitting on the porch, drinking beer.