[Redrum]

UC Regent on rejecting UC policy tying athletic coaches pay to graduation record:

One regent, Eddie Island, even said that graduating from UC isn’t all-important for student athletes. He said what matters is that they have a chance to attend.

Degree may not be goal

“Raising that bar too high suggests we don’t understand properly the role of athletics for students from cohttp://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/UC-rejects-its-own-policy-of-tying-coach-pay-to-6033918.pmmunities in distress,” Island said. “A college degree is not the goal of every athlete that comes to the university. They come for the athletics. They get an opportunity to leave their communities and come to a great university. They get mentoring and tutoring.

“That it does not result in a college degree is not necessarily a bad thing.”
 

I'm sure Jeff Tedford and Sandy Barbour agree.  But one other take is refreshing:  the standards are so low as to be meaningless for actual enforcement.

[http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/UC-rejects-its-own-policy-of-tying-coach-pay-to-6033918.p

[Redrum]

UC Regent on rejecting UC policy tying athletic coaches pay to graduation record:

One regent, Eddie Island, even said that graduating from UC isn’t all-important for student athletes. He said what matters is that they have a chance to attend.

Degree may not be goal

“Raising that bar too high suggests we don’t understand properly the role of athletics for students from cohttp://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/UC-rejects-its-own-policy-of-tying-coach-pay-to-6033918.pmmunities in distress,” Island said. “A college degree is not the goal of every athlete that comes to the university. They come for the athletics. They get an opportunity to leave their communities and come to a great university. They get mentoring and tutoring.

“That it does not result in a college degree is not necessarily a bad thing.”
 

I'm sure Jeff Tedford and Sandy Barbour agree.  But one other take is refreshing:  the standards are so low as to be meaningless for actual enforcement.

[http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/UC-rejects-its-own-policy-of-tying-coach-pay-to-6033918.p