Slate Takes Swipe At Dodge

[UNTflyer]

That sort of [recruitment] cheating is almost never caught in high-school sports, much less punished. Unlike at the college level, prep athletics runs on an honor system. The principals, athletic directors, and coaches who are profiting from the supposed purity of high-school sports are the ones who determine if their sports are indeed pure. And there are certainly profits to be made. Southlake Carroll's most recent head coach parlayed his team's high national rankings into the head coaching gig at North Texas, where he reportedly earns more than $400,000 a year.

http://www.slate.com/id/2173804/

This is a non sequitur. How is Dodge's success at SLC leading to a higher paying job at North Texas a form of profiteering??

[Got5onIt]

The writers mother must be a professor or something.

I heard UT pays their top ranking Professor $500,000 a year and at teh beginning of each year the top rated professor can change. Does UNT do anything similar?

[greenminer]

Didn't really see it as a swipe against Dodge. IMO, a pretty weak article. Comparing advanced scouting to awarding a Northwestern soph a car?

...and I don't think he'd deny his Northwestern bias screaming from between the lines.

My favorite team has enough problems as it is.

sums it up.

[meangreendork]

That sort of [recruitment] cheating is almost never caught in high-school sports, much less punished. Unlike at the college level, prep athletics runs on an honor system. The principals, athletic directors, and coaches who are profiting from the supposed purity of high-school sports are the ones who determine if their sports are indeed pure. And there are certainly profits to be made. Southlake Carroll's most recent head coach parlayed his team's high national rankings into the head coaching gig at North Texas, where he reportedly earns more than $400,000 a year.

http://www.slate.com/id/2173804/

This is a non sequitur. How is Dodge's success at SLC leading to a higher paying job at North Texas a form of profiteering??

Here's the leap of that logic:

Start point is here ->x Endpoint is 50mi from here ->x

So then, I'm profiteering and engaging in less than moral activity by taking my degree in something and then getting a high paying job? Or getting promoted? Or finding a better paying position? This is horrible writing.