On the TunneySide of Sports April 18, 2022 #896 Up next… The Last Bastion
After further review… I have often thought that sports or the field of sports would be the last bastion in maintaining truth and honesty or at least doing it the right way. Let me lay out the definition of bastion which is: (as I understand it): “An institution, place, or person strongly defending or upholding particular principles, attitudes, or activities.”
This was the lesson I learned playing on the playground after school and on weekends. I guess I shouldn’t say after school since what we were learning on that playground were life lessons that would serve us well. On the playground, we were the last bastion. There were no coaches or referees or umpires to guide us. We had to figure it out ourselves. And do it quickly since we were running out of daylight! Time was of the essence as we needed to be home before dark. Oh, yes, we argued about a foul or a procedure but settled it quickly.
The thinking behind this article is what we are seeing daily through our media. Elected officials are being charged with crimes that we always assumed were being committed by known criminals, not those we elected to represent us. Crime is rampant in our streets –always has been, always will be – but we, hopefully, draw the line when it happens in institutions we hold as sacred.
The case(s) in point are those colleges and universities that have succumbed to outside brokers who have fallen into the hands of private citizens who want to get their young people into that school by offering financial “bribes.” Granted these brokers are not part of or held accountable to said college but are only in this “scheme” to make money – legally or illegally – the latter is the issue.
However, that broker is working with an employee of that college who have the ways to make it happen. That person associated with the college has to be that “last bastion” who says STOP – we are not interested in this way of enrolling students who don’t meet our admission standards. Colleges and universities need to do a better job vetting these types of employees.
Let’s not be naïve enough to think that this has not happened in the past. It certainly has, but hopefully, the law has come forward to stop it or at least slow it down.
Will, you, if ever involved, avoid being part of a scheme to go against standard procedures?
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