[ebarker]

The sports versus robotics debate is annoying on the surface. Sports is valuable and robotics is too ! Sports funding often has a contribution from the school system, robotics not so much - unfair, not right !!

(a) us, making less sports less valuable than robotics will get us no where
(b) sportsters, making robotics less valuable than sports, will get the country no where !

We need support for athletics and robotics.

The NCAA is a membership-led nonprofit association of colleges and universities committed to supporting academic and athletic opportunities for 408,364 (2007) student-athletes in 28 men's and 27 women's intercollegiate sports with 17,713 teams participating at more than one thousand member schools.

Last year our team graduated a "Gatorade Player of the Year" - she received a full 5 year ride to Virginia Tech and will be majoring in a STEM career.

Student need to understand that the probability of them going pro in sports is extremely slim........ if you are an NCAA athlete, your best opportunity is to take advantage of the educational opportunity. That is what a smart student does.

If they are fortunate enough to receive athletic and STEM scholarships, even better.