Over time, however, the increase in negative attitudes attributed to athletic department behavior brings into question their congruency with the university core values.
Trainers will have to rely on knowledge, finesse, athletic development, horsemanship, nutrition, behavior, husbandry and their jockey to win a horse race, sort of like horse racing was always intended to be.
The CBSK consists of six perceived competence subscales: scholastic competence, social acceptance, athletic competence, physical appearance, behavior and conscience, and global self-worth.
The dancing and jiggling that goes on after these plays often seems like show-business behavior and cheapens athletic excellence.
Your point that the public is often seduced by excellent athletic performance into forgetting bad behavior has general validity.
A New Jersey father arrested last summer on charges that he punched an umpire while coaching at an all-star baseball game for 10-year-old boys has been indicted under a recent state law intended to curb rowdy adult behavior at youth athletic events.
In "Kith and Kin," James Samson and Amy Young are parental figures from the 19th century in austere brown clothes (in her case, a long dress) who school eight young people, adolescent in behavior and far more athletic and modern in clothing and manner.
As long as schools place winning -- and the ticket sales winning generates -- above the welfare of the students, it seems unlikely we are going to see athletic directors and presidents alter their behavior.
It is time to measure athletes for more than just their athletic accomplishments and to hold them accountable for their behavior outside the arena, to recognize their significant impact on a large segment of society.
