Research Blog #7: Your Case

My chief argument/case is that the attitudes of universities towards its intercollegiate athletics has direct effects on student-athletes and their ability to succeed academically.  Each university puts a larger focus on beefing up its athletic's department and spend a significantly larger amount of money in its athletics than its academics.  They are focused on creating a revenue stream in order to become a "first-rate university" through their athletics, at the complete expense of its academic standards and chief principle of educating its students and allowing them to reach their fullest academic potential.