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Posted on 07/17/2020 7:36:29 AM PDT by C19fan
Tom Brookshier was right!
‘Denny Crum always has a great team at Louisville .. They have a collective I.Q. of about 40 but they can play basketball.’
- Tom Brookshier
There was a time when I dreamed of being the first affirmative action hire in the NBA. There’s a distinct shortage of short overweight white guys who can’t jump in that league.
Grades and tests are racist, of course.
Uh, does anybody believe these guys ever took their own SATs or didn’t do it with a special fix, like the whole college admissions scandal?
I smell Boeheim Pitino in this. The coaches opinion here means absolutely nothing. They would “hire” players off the streets that couldn’t read or write. I was in this business as a high school coach and I’ve seen them in action. Remember how Black coaches whined about Prop 48 which merely required basic academic skills? John Thompson and Roy Williams made that into a joke.
So, college basketball players aren’t really students? They are minor league professionals?
OMG—wonder why???
PATHETIC!!!!!!!
This sort of thinking brings me back to the idea that no college should have sports.
Exactly.
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College athletics should be disbanded and replaced with a sponsored club model organization. It is a farce to believe that many of these athletes are actually college level students. The grade point averages reported by teams often appear like the team is made up of real students, but the real students are the third team walk-ons and student managers. It is those back benchers that boost the gpa and the graduation rates. It does not mean the athletes are stupid because they are victims of a terrible public school system that teaches them little to nothing, and leaves them totally unprepared to do any kind of academic work above an elementary school level. The colleges corrupt themselves by pretending they are able to address the athletes inadequacies when they really just provide the athletes a means to cheat the system.
If we could go to a club model then colleges could still sponsor teams, but athletes could work at a job, go to a vo-tech, or go to college. Why is it so important that we link amateur athletics to colleges? The club model would end the farce. We know, however, the answer to the question is money and who will control it. Colleges, the power five in particular, are not going to give it up no matter how ridiculous the pretense that these are student athletes becomes.
Disagree they become judges.
Isn’t Craig Robinson the brother of Michelle obama?
Really? Did they say this with a straight face? This has to go down as one of the most self-serving, pass-the-buck, let's-dumb-it-down-even-more statements I've ever read.
Make it a felony to possess a basketball.
Those grade stabilizers on the team are called the “swimmies” in the late Tom Wolfe book...I am Charlotte Simmons...they kept the team gpa above the stated gpa goal(water level)
Ah, the old “let me shroud my racism in nobility” angle.
Replace them with a basketball skills test.
If they can sign their name with a “X”, well, that’s good enough. We have remedial reading programs as well as classes in basic arithmetic.
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