Posted on 07/21/2018 3:09:44 PM PDT by EveningStar
Full title: LaVar Ball: 'If you want to be a professional athlete, you don't need to spend 50 percent of your time in class'
Now, the idea behind his league is solid. It provides his sons, LiAngelo and LaMelo — and countless others — an opportunity to play competitive basketball outside of the NCAA while they make a push to play professionally. It also offers athletes a chance to make money while doing it.
Except in a recent interview with SBNation’s Ricky O’Donnell, LaVar gave a weird piece of advice: One doesn’t need an education if they want to be a professional athlete.
“If you want to be a professional athlete, you don’t need to spend 50 percent of your time in class, which you’re not gonna use anyway, and 50 percent trying to play ball,” LaVar told SBNation. “Now you can be 100 percent in. If you really that guy, this is the way to go. If you’re only going be in college for a semester anyway, if you really that guy.”
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Worked for Moses Malone.
Yeah....just keep on believing that.....
Living in a bubble and it’s gonna get popped
Living in a bubble and it’s gonna get popped
Living in the Pro Sports bubble!
College BassetBall needs to be eliminated.
Too Racis’.
In theory minor league pro basketball. Minor leagues which is something that should exist for all professional sports (already exists for pro baseball!). It would spare colleges & universities the hypocrisy of the modern student athlete. Unfortunately the “Big 2 - Football & Basketball” generate so much revenue a lot of universities can’t do with out them.
He’s right. Heaven forbid that the athlete is educated enough to make sure an agent, manager, or lawyer doesn’t take most of their money. Bell has got those sleazebags backs.
once you make your first million you’re home free. Then it’s what you do with it-like sez. Problem is most people don’t.
“if you really that guy”
Find the verb.
I don’t remember his name but he played for the Lakers when they won. Black man...really nice man. Marty Levin of tmz on his Objectified show interviewed him.
He said his parents told him to get a college degree. He did. He bought his son a brand new Lambo and told him he couldn’t drive it until he graduated from college.
I really enjoyed that interview. Dang wish I could remember his name...big tall guy, went to a Florida team after he left the Lakers. Used to get into it with Kobe all the time.
He’s basically right. The overwhelming majority of NCAA Division I basketball players are unqualified for and uninterested in the academic programs offered by the colleges and universities that they attend. It’s a farce to classify them as student-athletes when everyone know they’re really only there to play basketball. Going through the motions of earning a degree in sociology or similar really doesn’t to them any favors and wastes university resources that might otherwise be devoted to actual students.
You are correct on both issues.
As usual, it often boils down to follow the money.
The money raised in college football and basketball is tremendous.
Wasn’t/isn’t this moron on Sesame Street? Talk a poor role model. Any athlete worth a damn will tell kids to stay in school because your odds of getting into the pros are slim to none.
Oops. Just realized I confused him with LeVar Burton
If a professional league of college level athletes was formed to play on Sunday and honor the Flag and National Anthem, I’d watch it.
Shouldn’t play games on the Sabbath.
Football.
and if your kids can ball you can be loudmouth idiot and get your name in the paper every other day.
Also college football.
At the Big 10 university I attended most of the football players were getting Health & Physical Education degrees (HPE). The HPE department teachers were mainly a bunch of overpaid gym teachers who coddled the sports players. They actually had a class that was nothing but fly tying and canoeing. A ten week class on tying flies and canoeing, and getting credit to boot!
At that time the University had what was called University Requirements. These were a number of certain types classes that every student had to take (Humanities, English, History or Social Studies, and at least one Political Science class). Every student enrolled in the university expecting to earn and receive a degree had to take those classes. I found out that the athletes had free tutors available to "help" them with every single class that fell under the umbrella of University Requirements.
Shaq?
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