In American EVERYONE has the right to say “NO” and walk away.
Why is it, that college football and basketball have evolved into being farm teams for the pros? Why is it that college baseball doesn’t function that way for the most part? Why is it that baseball runs their own minor league system, rather than depending on colleges to develop players?
Colleges give blacks free tuition if they can spell basketball, and know how throw a ball into a basket. So STFU.
OK. End college basketball now.
The slavery comparison is idiotic, but it is a stupid system that creates household names out of some college athletes and doesn’t provide them with enough money to go to a restaurant or buy a bike.
Not as if a lot of those players are going to graduate anyway, so what’s the point of offering them a scholarship?
It's a damn travesty and something should be done.
Yeah they are forcing them to attend,it’s all attitude,go get the free education while you travel and play ball,enjoy it,meet friends make your connections,life long friends.
If you make that your goal you won’t have a problem..
It’s time to start to listen to this constant litany of “X is just like slavery”.
On the one hand, no, starting for Duke as an apprenticeship to pro ball (I agree the “education” is worthless) is NOT like slavery.
But I believe for many American blacks, performing a service, ANY service, however well compensated for “the man” IS exactly “like slavery”, and once understood this way, it’s one more piece of evidence that people who feel this way can’t coexist with people who don’t.
OK, let me get this straight. If you are blessed with a degree of physical ability, skilled at basketball, have a good work ethic and are offered the opportunity to obtain an education in exchange for playing a game which you most likely love, it is akin to slavery? (Nice run-on sentence, eh?) What universe does THAT come from?
Oh, right...the Democrat playbook.
That does it. Cancel Basketball.
We must immediately defund all college basketball programs, fire everyone that has ever touched a basketball, investigate everyone and return the savings to the tax payer.
If they were talking about the NBA it’d be laughable.
As they’re talking about college, it’s still laughable but much closer to truth.
The colleges/universities make MILLIONS off those kids and the kids can lose scholarships, get kicked off teams if they so much as receive a free meal from the wrong person. It’s FAR from slavery so the article comparison is a joke but the kids in that system get the super-duper short end of the stick.
SO WALK AWAY FROM THOSE AWFUL MILLION DOLLAR CHAINS AND GET A REAL JOB. Contribute to society, do something besides slap a ball.
So Deveney and Haywood, when will you be sharing your money with us? Or are you both just more BS and FOS retards spouting off crap?
It is not slavery, but it is exploitation. Many of these kids have been sold the idea that they are going to make it big in the NFL or the NBA. I have even worked with community college bench warmers who think they are one step, one shot, one game away from a first division NCAA basketball program and then the NBA. Meanwhile, the big universities rake in the millions and these kids fall away to the side and are forgotten. Many of them never graduate, and those who do often have worthless degrees that lead nowhere. I live in a state that is consumed with athletics, and whose legislature doesn’t give a damn about common education of the majority of kids. Once a big fan of all things sports in my state, I now hate every facet of college sports and refuse to watch it. Society would be much better off without collegiate sports. Maybe it is more akin to prostitution than slavery.
Same message the Democrats give. “Stay on the porch and we’ll feed you.”
They weren’t conscripted. The scenario wasn’t unknowable to them. They’re getting a free university education. They travel and get applause and special attention (unlike chemistry students). They have a chance at lucrative pro bball.
But, they are miserable, mistreated slaves. Victims. Deserving pity.
My response: https://youtu.be/KIikqPmbgvI
Slaves were educated with college degrees. I never knew that.