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Agreed. And I get very upset at the notion that college should be for a select few. Just like I believe in public school education. When it came time for my kid to start school, I refused to consider a private school, much to the dismay of my in-laws, because I believe that kids need to learn...

I guess that is the difference, then. I still find it bothersome.

I get it from the quote about "intellectually brilliant students who happen to be athletes" and from this paragraph: The counterpoint, for Dr. Dowling, was the college experience he had savored as an undergraduate at Dartmouth. The bookish and athletic child of a working-class family, he won a...

Very true. He's a moron and has demonstrated it repeatedly.

He paints all student-athletes with a broad brush. That's wrong.

The fact that anyone's family gets threatened over sports in any way, shape or form is sickening. The NCAA/college athletics machine is way out of control, agreed. And there are deserving kids who are not athletes getting the shaft. My best friend certainly did. But the way it gets fixed isn't...

I think most students are unprepared for college. I was, and I graduated 13th out of a class of 325. And I went to the original land grant university, Michigan State, no scholarships, no grants, and I worked. As I said, I get a sense that where Dowling draws the line of who's worthy of going...

And I didn't say he was being racist. I just get the feeling that he looks down on everyone but that top echelon as being unworthy.

Then I guess I am reading the story wrong. I just get the feeling from the story that he is one of these people who believes college should only be for the top 1 percent. That's all.

Rutgers doesn't present itself as a Harvard type of school, though, not here in New Jersey. It actively markets itself as the place EVERY New Jersey student should want to attend and it has going back to when I was in high school 25 years ago.

He makes a blanket, black-and-white statement, however, and there are plenty of athletes who are there to do more and be more than just athletes. I still say his comments betray an overall attitude toward the rest of the world that is offensive.

OK. I don't think that's how Dowling defines it, however. I mean, do you really think he believes the masses should be attending college? Do you think he believes that the less-intelligent, middle-of-the-road kid who decides to go to college and spends his share of time of time partying...

OK, I'll bite. How do you define scholars?

I guess I am, because from what I read, he seems to think that scholars are the only ones who deserve to be in college. There's a tone that says anyone who's in college for reasons other than ones that mesh with his lofty ideals doesn't belong there. And that's just wrong.

What he said was exceptionally elitist, though, and it's just one more reason I'm glad I didn't go to Rutgers. I live in Jersey and went out of state because I didn't want to go to college with the people I went to high school with, and Princeton was well out of my parents' reach. Not that I...

I just read the whole story, and I have to say I'm more outraged than I was based on just the comments quoted in the AP story. This guy is an elitist who believes that ONLY the best and brightest should be on the receiving end of college educations, and that is a bigger bunch of garbage than...

Ryan's decision to start Scurry was just idiotic and indefensible ... and quite frankly, unfair as hell to Scurry. If Solo had been hurt, that's one thing, but you don't take someone who hasn't been playing and stick them in on a whim. It messes with everyone's head -- not just the goalkeeper's...