While logos and ethos help an argument, the use of fallacies can hinder an argument’s credibility to the reader. In the entire editorial, Pielke references that the addition of a sports major will bring together the separation between academics and athletics. He does not refer to any other method of solving this problem and in one instance, he says that creating these types of degree programs will bring the two issues closer together. This is assuming that the action he wants universities to take is the only one that will provide a positive outcome of a closer knit community between the academic and athletic departments. There are other possible ways to decrease this separation other than adding an entirely new major only specific to those
