Want to Try Out for College Sports? Forget It

The NY Times ^ | 21 September 2002 | BILL PENNINGTON

[irish guard]

So, the moral of this story is to say "screw your dreams" and just live life as a dullard, because it is impossible. To quote General McAuliffe, "nuts"!!!

I went to Notre Dame.....yes I was there with Rudy, he lived down the hall from me. the guy was nothing special. Some of my football player friends said he was absolutely psycho in practice and clearly got the attention of the coaching staff.

This past weekend, another walk-on, Pat Dillingham threw a 60 yard touchdown pass with less than 2 minutes left to lead Notre Dame to a 21-17 win over Michigan State.

Sorry, this stuff actually can happen and this story is garbage!

[irish guard]

Oh and by the way, if it were easy, then everyone would be able to walk on. Just watch that Rudy movie closely and you will understand the kind of dedication it takes to walk on. This author makes it sound like it should be made easy to walk on.

[On the Road to Serfdom]

From Article: "But there are always exceptions, and they are frequently on the football team, where the lore of the walk-on remains strongest."

Your football walk-on example does not refute the article in any way.

[jimkress]

Sure it does. It clearly makes manifest the internal inconsistecy in the article which, when taken into acount, results in the complete negation of the inital proposistion advanced, by the qualifiers included later in that piece of trash.

[johnboy]

" ... my schools should be ashamed.)"

i didn't read steinbeck until my mid-twenties.

when i finished grapes of wrath, i was stunned, and sat there, and wondered: how could i have been allowed to graduate high school without reading this?

are you really a teacher? i have, btw, a very, very, very low opinion of teachers (witness, e.g., the fea's interference in florida's governor's race ... i could continue endlessly. [my wife is a teacher. ugh. otherwise, she is very desireable.])

[Teacher317]

I was... I'm in Law School right now. I may return to teaching again someday, though. I love it too much to let the idiotic liberals scare me away forever.