Ok, some people might have heard of this little story going around the ether yesterday.
"Why should we have to go to class if we came here to play FOOTBALL, we ain't come to play SCHOOL classes are POINTLESS..." -- Cardale Jones
Well first off moron, "we ain't" is probably one of the reasons you SHOULD be going to school AND paying attention to classes. Second in one of those classes about statistics (or you know basic math on your part) a troubling fact for you might come-up. The number of college athletes that make a PROFESSIONAL (I know a big word, try to stay with it) living out of their sport. It's dismal... never mind for 3rd string QBs. Thirdly even if by some miracle you actually make it to the NFL (or more likely Arena Football if at all) the odds of you making it past the first few seasons are well... lets say dramatically reduced. What then? With your evident grasp of grammar it's fairly obvious that any employment in an education field is out (we hope!) or for that matter any field that requires any writing, or typing since clearly you don't know when to capitalize either. All of this leads us back to the assumption that I made when I first read of your tweet.
You are an idiot....
and ungrateful, which probably incensed me the most.
Do you know how many Americans do not get to go to college?
Or how many hours many of us have to work to be able to afford college, if we can even do that?
Or how many MORE years we have to work to pay off college loans?
Yet YOU are allowed to go, nay even encouraged to go because you are good at a sport. A FUCKING sport, which while we are discussing it, you aren't even that good at since you're a 3rd string and not at a 10 ten college either. You get a scholarship, you get assistance from your team, you get a system that is designed to help you succeed academically (that apparently you really need to start taking advantage of the sooner the better in my humble opinion). All of these are advantages not afforded many other students.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?
Now lest some bring-up the issue that you are a college freshman and "haven't we all said things we regret" and shouldn't we cut the kid some slack and all that ilk. To you I say, "yes", he is a freshman, "yes", clearly if Cardale had known beforehand the firestorm it would cause then the tweet might never have been flung into the public sphere. But I say no to the shouldn't you cut him some slack crap. Frankly speaking, I can't think of any student in the history of the World that didn't dislike (or was bored out of their mind) in a class at some point or another. Unfortunately Cardale clearly understands the mechanism of his college education, "we were brought in to play FOOTBALL".... the sheer disdain to which he further compares his classes with playing a sport implies a certain cynical assessment of his place in college life. So no the "kid" doesn't get cut any slack and in fact I further use Mr. Jones as an example of the declining values and direction that the US educational system is headed towards.
We shouldn't be paying these kids, these "athlete-scholars", we should be rewarding the ones that go to school, that take heavy course loads in order to make something of themselves and contribute to a BETTER society in a measurable way. We should be paying the way for engineers, teachers, doctors, writers, artists, journalists and yes even lawyers. SPORTS athletes should be dead LAST on the list of students who should get a free ride. Unfortunately, I'm not a college administrator nor do I influence the directions of laws or programs for schools.
I'm just a fat, unemployed, couch potato... who had an undefeated year in high school basketball, was on the track and field team at my city college, and the crew team at a medium-sized college.
Oh yeah, AND who WENT TO CLASS.
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