Education Secretary Arne Duncan suggested in an op-ed published Thursday that colleges could improve graduation rates for marquee athletic programs, including basketball and football, by fining coaches when players don’t graduate.
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“If universities and colleges want to readjust a coach’s priorities, they need to change the penalties and incentives they offer coaches,” Duncan and co-author Tom McMillen wrote in USA Today.
The op-ed comes as the NCAA began its Final Four college basketball tournament on Thursday.
But the pair warn that the current model of big-time college sports is “neither economically sustainable nor morally defensible” and advocate “a healthier balance between academics and athletics.”
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