tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2525637499307892535.post7958094435880970231..comments2024-03-19T02:39:12.846-04:00Comments on Playing to Win: My NCAA Bracket Thoughts (Well, sort of)Hilary Levey Friedmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07292393262675604139noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2525637499307892535.post-10456483602584834142011-03-16T22:15:02.617-04:002011-03-16T22:15:02.617-04:00doc has it taped
check espn they may be showing ...doc has it taped<br /><br />check espn they may be showing it again<br />it was a 2hour special om march 13 thus it maybe on again<br /><br />alas i may keep it as i taped it<br /><br />go tigers but i think it is the year of ohio state or duke againAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2525637499307892535.post-1902730260455984162011-03-16T21:29:31.955-04:002011-03-16T21:29:31.955-04:00I keep hearing about the Fab 5 doc-- I need to see...I keep hearing about the Fab 5 doc-- I need to see it.Hilary Levey Friedmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07292393262675604139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2525637499307892535.post-39024708142831625452011-03-16T21:25:35.029-04:002011-03-16T21:25:35.029-04:00Last month on ESPN there was a 2 hour show hosted ...Last month on ESPN there was a 2 hour show hosted by Bob Ley on the status on the africanamerican athlete in college sports.Jalean Rose one the fab five from unv.of michigan stated college athletes are really semi-pros and not true student athletes.at at one time the NCAA had 16 then 32 then 64,now 68 it all revolves around the green dollar.<br />John Clapari and Spike Lee stated for the black athlete either hit a 3 pointer, be a big kineman and play football or sell drugas in the ghetto. A sad commentary.<br /><br />A recent ESPN 2 hour show i=on the fab five show chris webers #$ jersey was being sold at a store in ann arbor for $75.00 and he at that time needed lunch and clothes money. The NCAA earns billions for all its teams from tv contract etc.<br /><br />Harvard wins 29-29 makes more sense in true student-athlete coleg competetion;plus women know they can only play basketball in pros after college and need their educations.<br /><br />sorry Dr. Leveyfriedman the tigers of princeton will not go very far. Their players are too smart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2525637499307892535.post-77691417097414833372011-03-16T21:06:46.762-04:002011-03-16T21:06:46.762-04:00There's little reason to think that sports abi...There's little reason to think that sports ability and academic ability are positively correlated. [I'm aware of the finding that participating in organized sports helps some high school and college athletes with their work ethic / time management / academic performance, but I doubt that there is a correlation > 0 across the whole population.] So if you want to identify the best boy basketball players out of the whole population of teenagers, many of them will not be well-qualified for college work.<br /><br />Then you identify the SES issue. It could be that the poor urban population tends to be the biggest source of men's basketball stars (for biological or sociological reasons). I don't know if that's actually true, but that is definitely the popular perception. If that's true, then it could be that these kids are bad at academics because they're poor and good at basketball because they're poor.<br /><br />But I'm BSing here without any data!Snoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2525637499307892535.post-18751947646802309092011-03-16T20:54:11.086-04:002011-03-16T20:54:11.086-04:00Yes, I think that's right-- and being academic...Yes, I think that's right-- and being academically marginal is tied up in other sorts of socioeconomic issues.<br /><br />Girls also just generally perform better, as a group, on these sorts of measures than boys do. Would be interesting to see a breakdown by GPA or major/concentration.Hilary Levey Friedmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07292393262675604139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2525637499307892535.post-24261530007573149272011-03-16T20:51:14.902-04:002011-03-16T20:51:14.902-04:00On the male-female grad rates, my simple (and prob...On the male-female grad rates, my simple (and probably not entirely correct) explanation would be: Men's bball is a cash cow for the university. Women's bball is not. The university has a big incentive to accept academically marginal boy basketball prospects as freshmen, while the university doesn't have this incentive for girl players.Snoreply@blogger.com