I’m surprised anyone thinks this is news
They’re getting ready for the big leagues where the motto is, “My felon is bigger, better, and meaner than your felon.”
Being illiterate is a problem. Reading like an eighth grader? Not so much.
Yeah, it is pretty disgraceful. What happens when one of these players gets permanently injured? Then they’re a crippled illiterate. Good luck finding work in that situation, even with a worthless college degree.
If they can’t read or write, how do they pass the SAT??? /sarc
This reminded me of the interview with the Florida State Defensive Player of the Game following the BCS Championship. As soon as the guy opened his mouth you realized he was incapable of constructing a sentence in the English language (AKA: Dumb as a Rock). How some of these athletes get in college and maintain any kind of GPA is disgraceful. By the way, while on the subject, the FSU QB (Wilcox) has a lot of talents, but his potential as an NFL QB is questionable because of what is between his ears. Kind of reminds me of the Oakland Raiders 1st Draft Pick years ago of the QB from LSU which was a complete bust.
Or was it strictly an attempted hatchet job like the one SI tried against Oklahoma State back in the summer?
Or was it something in between, you know, like water is wet and the sun rises in the east?
(And why do they run with it now, two days after the national championship football game? )
My cousin’s sole job at LSU is to teach some of their scholarship athletes how to read and write.
Why is it disgraceful?
Nothing new. I once tutored a guy in one of my college classes; he was at about that same level. Nice guy, but didn’t belong in college. He was only there because of football.
The NCAA is a joke. This org needs disbanded. Nobody believes it’s about the student-athlete anymore. AJ McCarran’s Tweet was correct about Jameis Winston. He should never have received a high school diploma.
Is there a demographic breakdown on which college athletes suffer from this problem?
I helped put myself through college by working in a Learning Resource Center, and some of the football players I tutored needed to go back to first grade readers to find something they could struggle through. I used a homeschooling philosophy. Find out where they were at. Start there, and move them forward as fast as they could go. I figured the university was going to use them as long as it could, and the only education they would ever have was in the LRC.
We had a girl working in there, intelligent, and a world class beauty with class. When guys would come in too stubborn to try an learn I would pass them onto her. In no time they would be trying to read and do basic math.
Is anyone surprised by this?
Haven’t we known for ages that many athletes are promoted for their ability to win on the field?
But that can’t be the blame. No, and we can’t blame any of the dumbing-down PC issues brought to us by leftist policies.
So the answer must be that we just don’t care enough about the poor.
This is looking like a branch of the inequality tree leftists are nurturing.
During the O.J. trial, O.J. had to read something aloud. He was barely able.
As a Duke alum, I would note that a decent percentage of Duke former starting basketball players go on to coaching or announcing careers (where they at least have to read a teleprompter (and work hard get a word in once in a while around Dick Vitale).
