NCAA Should Consider Offering Sports as Major

I came across this provocative, yet simple idea that I think would help address many of the problems with school athletics.

Oriard observes that athletes devote as much time to their craft as a student violinist, and “there is an intelligence that is required of athletes that is similar to music, too.” We congratulate music majors for their passion, and tell them that even if they don’t make it in the symphony, they are acquiring an art and a method of thought that will be theirs forever. But for some reason we tell athletes who aspire to the highest levels that they are academically illegitimate, and look down on them as vocational students (forgetting that without vocational students, our cars wouldn’t start).

NCAA colleges should consider offering sports as an academic major [Washington Post]