Posted on 07/17/2020 3:52:13 AM PDT by karpov
Is this a Babylon Bee article?!
College basketball coaches see no need that academics should matter for their recruits! Hah Hah!
Honestly its about time for college athletics to be ended, or just bring the sports back to a club level.
Some years ago, during the Jim Valvano era, NC State had a player that scored 400 on the SAT. You get 200 for signing your name.
The player went on to get kicked out for theft, played pro for awhile.
Having a biden moment vis a’ vis his name.
Give athletes that don’t do scholarship Certificates of Attendance instead of Diplomas.
Chris Shackleford.
Led to the downfall of Valvano.
This must be because some think that some race or other won’t perform particularly well as a group on such tests.
ML/NJ
Maybe teams should be required to stay within race ratios to the ratios in the schools.
I’m curious as to the earnings average of the vast majority of college football and basketball players who aren’t qualified to go pro.
I personally know young people who said their SAT scores were low. I happen to know that they did (or are doing) very well in college.
IQ really is racist.
It’s odd, really. Blacks tend to dominate is sports/activities that involve athleticism. Few, except when being sarcastic, question this and no one seriously believes that there is a deliberate movement to exclude whites from the sports involved. Pro sports tend to be a meritocracy.
But to even hint at the idea that blacks, do not do as well as whites in any endeavor whatsoever, is to be accused of racism. Don’t even think about comparing test scores—if the scores of blacks are lower than whites, there must be something wrong with the test.
IQ, or the idea of ‘smart/stupid is possibly the only human attribute that can be measured that cannot be allowed to create a bell-shaped curve.
No Child Left Behind, Ted Kennedy’s parting gift to the nation (yes Bush signed on, but the Bill was Ted’s) actually had as its goal that 100% of school children would test out as ‘proficient’ in both math and reading. Wrap your mind around that idea for a moment and think of the truly dim bulbs you’ve encountered in your stay on this planet.
And those students happen to be conservative, too.
Correct Translation: "The players ("mutants") who receive free training, room & board and publicity to display their ability before the NBA Draft Lottery and subsequent bazillion dollar salaries..."
These college players are not FORCED to play. Being on a college basketball team is like being paid (in room & board & a college degree) to audition on "America's Got Talent!"
You avoided my argument. What are they studying at school? SATs are a good predictor in the schools of Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Engineering.
Race ratios in sports will be the next requirement.
Boston talker/columnist Howie Carr went to UNC, and watches the games when he can.
It must have been Shackleford in a story Carr related, talking about a UNC vs NC State match-up, UNC students were holding up a sign behind the color commentators that read "[Star Player] Can't Read This Sign".
Couldn't remember or recognize what actual name was used.
“ Many students don’t score high on SAT/ACT and still do very well in college. That one test on that one day doesn’t mean you’re not college ready. ”
If so, they are the exception to the rule.
There is a huge correlation between how well one does on ACT/SAT/LSAT/MCAT and how well kids do in school.
This goes way back...
The James Brooks Illiteracy Scandal
https://diverseeducation.com/article/10/
And believe me, Auburn was far from the only school where these kinds of stories took place.
Just be like Archie Bunker: always pick a Jewish lawyer or doctor.
“Craig Malcolm Robinson (born April 21, 1962) is an American college basketball coach, basketball executive, and broadcaster. ... Robinson is the older brother of former U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama and the brother-in-law of former U.S. President Barack Obama.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Robinson_(basketball)
Exactly, it’s just a pretense already there.
he was recruited by duke and Carolina. he would have been a Rhodes Scholar at either of those places.
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