Posted on 06/01/2012 11:01:38 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
When Justin Combs turned 16, his father, hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, gave him a $360,000 silver Maybach.
When Justin Combs decided to play football in college, UCLA gave him a $54,000 scholarship.
As UCLA confirmed this week that the recent graduate of New York's New Rochelle Iona Prep would enroll on a full athletic scholarship, some questioned if the cash-strapped school should pay for the education of the son of a man worth an estimated $475 million — and whether the 18-year-old should have accepted the offer.
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A school with a $2 billion endowment is hardly cash-strapped.
That is what is most important for children from families such as this. Too many just accept Daddy as their welfare and live in dependence and with out their own gonads. Daddy's money can remove a man's gonads faster than anything whereas achieving personal accomplishment or success is a major gonad reinforcer.
As a former college administrator it seems like a smart move by UCLA. They are paying out a little now in hopes of reaping a lot in the future. If the kid graduates either dad or kid may give big bucks to UCLA in the future but also if you are from an affluent family and going to college wouldn’t you think, “wow, I want to go to UCLA too.”
I am proud of this kid. He could just be a lazy ass and he clearly is not.
Or it could really hurt them when UCLA goes to the CA legislature begging for more money.
There are scholarships awarded based on need, and others are awarded based on academic or athletic prowess. Plus, a $56K scholarship to young Diddy is likely to result in contributions equaling that amount or more from Diddy Sr.
Well, the rich man’s kid is more or less self servingly characterizing it as an “investment” — let’s wait, watch, and see. Will the kid found a set of scholarships himself or be of other tangible benefit to the college as an alumnus? Maybe he will.
Still, I wonder what the kid’s own net worth is; if he did not wreck that car then that alone is still worth a chunk of change. It should be less an issue about the father. If the kid couldn’t garner any dough on his own (and the scholarship is such a thing)... THEN we would be on solid moral ground to cast aspersions at the father for not stepping up to this plate according to his ample ability.
In the end I don’t know if this was clearly wrong, or what went on at the school to get it to happen. Sounds like the school is expecting a rich alumnus to benefit it. Nothing wrong with schools thinking that way. It’s capitalism.
Big time football schools have always and should give out football scholarships based upon talent, not need.
That said, it would have great for Combs father to pay his son’s way, and have him play as a walk-on, not for the good of the “cash-strapped” school, but for the good of the team, so they could offer an extra scholarship, to improve their chance of winning.
Well, the rich man’s kid is more or less self servingly characterizing it as an “investment” — let’s wait, watch, and see. Will the kid found a set of scholarships himself or be of other tangible benefit to the college as an alumnus? Maybe he will.
Still, I wonder what the kid’s own net worth is; if he did not wreck that car then that alone is still worth a chunk of change. It should be less an issue about the father. If the kid couldn’t garner any dough on his own (and the scholarship is such a thing)... THEN we would be on solid moral ground to cast aspersions at the father for not stepping up to this plate according to his ample ability.
In the end I don’t know if this was clearly wrong, or what went on at the school to get it to happen. Sounds like the school is expecting a rich alumnus to benefit it. Nothing wrong with schools thinking that way. It’s capitalism.
Whoops I do not know how this appeared twice. Network problems.
The financial justification for sports scholarships is that the football program as a whole turns a profit for the school. If young Mr. Combs is a good football player, he’ll be part of that profit center and “paying his way” in that sense.
If he can make UCLA win, he deserves every penny. ;)
The kid earned his free ride at UCLA.
What kind of $$#!thole country makes these morons like him and kardoochian famous?
Hate the successful who have worked hard and earned it!
Using this stupid argument, the kid should not even bother with an education or a job, since his daddy is rich and can pay for his every want or need.
What parents (except for parents of SPOILED CHILDREN) would buy their kids a car over $3,000. (BTW, what is the insurance cost on that car!!)
When Justin Combs decided to play football in college, UCLA gave him a $54,000 scholarship.
Liberals schools love LIBERALS!!
I doubt if UCLA is very worried about that. Probably many CA legislators graduated from UCLA or else their children do or will.
Schools are only allowed a certain number of athletic scholarships and I wouldn’t think that a school like UCLA, so hard pressed to have a winning team, would waste one on someone without talent. UCLA is doomed to be USC’s whipping post this year anyway.
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