Black? Play football at OSU? Wanna graduate? Good luck with that.

No, colleges are the problem, because they're admitting kids who otherwise have no business being in college. Which brings up the question of whether or not to pay college football and basketball players.

 

But it does go back to their home. Some(not all) are not being told to finish school, they are being told to go to college to play football and then go to the NFL and make millions of dollars. When they do get to college, they are ill prepared to do well because they didnt have the college prep that they needed to get in high school. By the time they get in college, some can be saved, others...its just too late.

 

That's my point. These 'kids who otherwise have no business being college' are oftentimes victims. The reason they don't have business being in college is because the education system and all the adults in their lives failed them.

 

To an extent...yes. I dont believe all the adults failed them...just the ones they pay attention to.

 

Does it say what percentage of the black and white football players would not have been admitted to THE Ohio State University, but for their football prowess?

 

I couldn't possibly care less if any college athlete, of any race or gender, gets a degree or not, for precisely this reason.

And no intelligent person should, either.

 

I think there is some merit here as well. LSU built a massive academic center at Nick Saban's urging (and with his financial help), and that place is incredible. I've checked it out in detail, and the resources are simply amazing. If you are on scholarship there and leave without a degree, shame on you.

 

Just for the record, at virtually every single one of these major-university "student-athlete academic centers," normal students (that is, non-scholarship athletes) are not allowed to use the facilities, and will be escorted from the premises instantly should they happen to wander through the door.

So whoop-dee-fucking-doo for the wonderful "student-athlete academic centers." The already pampered, privileged and coddled jocks get pampered, privileged and coddled a little more.

 

It's my understanding "regular" students can use the services at the LSU student-athlete academic center, but I could be wrong.

 

If so, that's very unusual. At most, if an "ordinary student" wanders in and starts walking up the halls, an athletic-department flunky will grab them firmly by the elbow, and steer them gently in the direction of the main campus library.

 

I've graded term papers submitted by football players. They are really beyond description.

Remember that OSU is the same school that belched forth one of the all-time meatheads in Andy Katzenmoyer, whose mother also complained that he couldn't major in football. And remember one of his summer courseloads (AIDS Awareness and Golf, among others).