Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Putting the Student back into Student-Athlete
I would hope. Chip's piece focuses on football, but the "arms race" applies to basketball as well.For years, coaches impressed recruits with the number of seats in the stadium or the square footage of the weight room. But there's a new element in that game of one-upmanship. More schools are beginning to tout the number of computer workstations, study rooms and tutorial assistants in their academic support units...
MSU's Clara Bell Smith Student Athlete Academic Support Center, financed by former Spartans basketball star Steve Smith to honor his mother, was one of the nation's first such facilities, opening in 1998. "When [former MSU football coach] Nick Saban got to LSU, the first thing he asked for was an academic support center," Marlowe said. "And he got it."
