TMC team GPAs

These are unofficial averages - not for distribution.  I'll bring the rest to class.

Football = 2.84 (lowest)
Men's tennis = 3.78 (highest)
Women's golf = 3.44

Generally, the women's teams are higher than the men's.

NCAA graduation rates

This just in!   http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/research/summary-division-iii-academic-success-rates

Things I Learned at the DIII FAR Fellows Institute

* I like being a FAR.  DIII student-athletes are cool.
* 40% of NCAA collegiate athletes are DIII.
* There are several lawsuits to watch for: O'Bannon on NIL (name, image, likeness) compensation, the Northwestern unionizing case, and another focused on paying student wages.
* The NCAA makes $800,000,000 in a 3 week period.  Almost all of that comes from football and March Madness.  $400,000,000 goes to the tournament schools. $100,000,000 goes to a fund to help athletes with basic expenses.  3.18% comes off the top of the 8million to fund all of DIII.  A little more (4.1ish%) for DII.

Q: What percentage of high school athletes play NCAA collegiate sports?
Q: What percentage of collegiate players go on to be professionals?
Q: T or F: There is NCAA grant/scholarship money available for grad school?

Eight Men Out - Questions and Research

Answer one of 2-6 below until they are all answered, then collectively discuss 1.

1) Were the White Sox players being exploited?
2) How much was a baseball player paid in 1919?
3) How much were average wages in 1919?
4) How much did the owner of the Sox make?
5) When exactly did Prohibition start?
6) When was the Depression and how many people did it effect?

Cheating in Sports vs. Cheating in Life

If you cheat in sports, won't you cheat everywhere?  Argue for or against, then respond to a classmate who has taken the opposite side.

Oct current events

23Oct14 Fake Classes for Athletes at UNC
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/23/sports/university-of-north-carolina-investigation-reveals-shadow-curriculum-to-help-athletes.html?referrer=
OMG.

16Oct14 Searching for Adult Supervision in Sayreville - NYTimes.com 

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/16/sports/adult-supervision-failed-at-new-jersey-school.html?referrer=

Discussion questions:
1) do high school students always need to be supervised?  Don't they know that, e.g., sexual assault, is wrong?
2) are high school boys more in need of supervision?  are high school athletes?  are football players?  What happened here -- how could the assaults have happened?  (Let's be clear -- rape and sexual assault is about power not sex.  You shouldn't be any less appalled when a male rapes a female.)
3) What's the responsibility of the coaching staff here?  How could you coach a team and not be clear that rape is unacceptable, immoral, unforgiveable?
4) If there were players who knew what was going on and said nothing, are they morally complicit?  As guilty as those who actually committed the crimes?
5) How does hazing work?  Was there a pattern here?  Where there earlier incidents?  Or did a group of players just wake up one morning and decide that sexually assaulting their teammates was a good idea?  Who does that?

14Oct14
Sierra Leone’s Soccer Team Struggles With Stigma Over Ebola Outbreak - NYTimes.com
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/14/sports/soccer/sierra-leones-soccer-team-struggles-with-stigma-over-ebola-outbreak.html?referrer=

NCAA allows MSJ to reschedule a game so a terminally ill player can get in her last game.
http://www.si.com/college-basketball/2014/10/14/ncaa-terminally-ill-basketball-player-lauren-hill-mout-saint-joseph

Genetics - a Public Service Announcement

http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=122​