{"id":37,"date":"2012-03-29T12:50:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T17:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/?p=37"},"modified":"2012-12-11T11:58:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T16:58:17","slug":"college-hoops-a-dissatisfied-public-on-many-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/2012\/03\/29\/college-hoops-a-dissatisfied-public-on-many-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"College Hoops: A Dissatisfied Public on Many Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As NCAA college basketball heads for the Final Four, the overall public voiced discontent over a number of issues related to the sport.<\/p>\n<p>57% felt the proposal by Education Secretary Arne Duncan &#8211; that a 40% graduation rate be imposed to make a team tournament eligible \u2013 should be higher, with only 19% saying there should be no requirement.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>76% felt that, some, most, or almost all colleges break the rules in recruiting athletes.<\/li>\n<li>59% felt that it hurts the game when players leave school early to turn pro.<\/li>\n<li>\n77% felt that coaches \u2013 both basketball and football \u2013 should be more tightly supervised by their universities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than 1 in 4 \u2013 28% &#8211; think that college basketball players intentionally influence the outcome of games because of gambling interests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese results run consistent to polling in previous years,\u201d said Gentile. \u201cPeople tend to want the college experience to be more about college than a training ground for professional athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As NCAA college basketball heads for the Final Four, the overall public voiced discontent over a number of issues related to the sport. 57% felt the proposal by Education Secretary Arne Duncan &#8211; that a 40% graduation rate be imposed&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/2012\/03\/29\/college-hoops-a-dissatisfied-public-on-many-issues\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-college","category-poll-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}