I used to teach at a basketball powerhouse university. My first semester there, it was about 2 weeks before the final exam and two BB players came in and said; “We’re here for the final.” I reminded them it was still 2 weeks away. They said they knew that but they wanted a copy of the final now so they could “use it to study for the final”. I said no. After arguing for a few minutes, they realized I wasn’t going to change my mind, so they left.
About 13 seconds later, a full professor who was so far to the left he was invisible, came into my office literally screaming at me that I denied the two players a copy of the exam. I asked why I should do that, and I got the usual drivel about how they are disadvantaged and need a break. I told him that these two players were not going to make it in the NBA, but they will find a job as a ?? University graduate. It will take their employer about a day to figure out they didn’t learn a thing in school. They will get fired, but they also destroyed the chance of other ?? University grads from ever getting a job there. So, my answer remains “No”.
I never had another athlete in any of my classes during my 4 years there.
The only time that dynamic is mentioned is when some pro athlete gets injured young and ends up living on the street; then everyone bemoans the fact that he never really received an “education” (despite his degree).
Watching interviews with pro athletes of certain groups exposes the hoax...
When I was a university instructor many moon ago I once has three football players in the same class. Two were black, one was white.
The black players missed class.
The white player did not.
The white player aced everything.
The black players barely got by.
The black players seemingly had no plans for their lives.
The white player said he had wanted to be a surgeon but that would never happen now. I asked why not (knowing he had the intelligence needed to be a surgeon). He showed me his hands. His knuckles were all busted up from playing football. He was going to become a medical doctor, he said, but he would never really be able to perform fine surgery.
I hope he made it. I hope the other two also made it.