Field Marshall Bradley
Veteran
Man....You know this is a lot of foolery you just posted right?
Most NCAA Athletes are barely reading at a 4th Grade Reading Level. While $chools make Million$
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Man....You know this is a lot of foolery you just posted right?
basketball & football
now do you only see all black kids on those basketball or football teams
various ethnic groups are on there being exploited
Field Marshall Bradley
Veteran
The majority are overwhelmingly black...Matter of fact....The NCAA didn't have these arbitrary rules when colleges were segregated....
godkiller
"We are the Fury"
I don't know if you're being ingenuous or you're just stupid but professional/semi-professional basketball is composed mainly of black athletes. They are the bread and butter of the sport. Their inclusion and visibility is part of the reason I think many people have a problem "paying" players or letting them choose to leave early. Many people have no connection with and feel little guilt from a guy from the hood that's playing football in college. To these people these guys have it "made" coming from poverty. They get a "free education" in "kinesology" or whatever unemployable nonsense football players major in. The entire thing is a farce. There are no sports where minorities dominate which have as restrictive racketeering rules as basketball and football.
fine only black kids are being exploited then if saying that makes it better for some reason, but for whatever reasons you wanna disregard the other races of kids on those teams cool.
i'd rather focus on all races of the kids being exploited
like i said before, if you wanna disregard all the races that play these sports just to cherry pick fine. if you actually watch these college sports you see there are many different ethnic groups that on that field or court, but fine lets not worry about all lets just focus on black kids. that line of thinking is stupid in my opinion. but whatever.
now paying athletes, exactly how are they gonna do this. we've had threads on here before discussing this topic and no 1 has came up with a solution to paying all athletes. you offered no solution in that matter
godkiller
"We are the Fury"
I'm not cherry-picking or disregarding other groups who play; I'm merely saying that the majority of players are black and they are also the most visible, which I think works against players in a discriminatory way.
I've already dismissed your "thinking" as disingenuous and/or idiotic. So there's nothing left to be said about your lame points.
I didn't even say colleges should pay athletes; I said that part of the reason athletes don't get more support is because of who plays the sport and what the sport's general percetion is as a result. As for how athletes would be paid, if that were to happen, well I would think the NCAA could pay athletes the same way employers pay employees but what do I know about salaries and compensation?
They will make millions and can't read
And those same people don't read their contracts or understand their financial statements which leads them back to nothing. Support illiteracy brehs.
godkiller
"We are the Fury"
And those same people don't read their contracts or understand their financial statements which leads them back to nothing. Support illiteracy brehs.
They can choose to become finally literate at any time they want after they have the money. Most players live a great life. Although some players not being able to read is a concern, what's more concerning to me is players not having the freedom to cash in on their talents. And instead being shuffled around by NCAA pimps and told to dance for coin or get lost.
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
You can
all you want, no way in hell a 9th grader should feel ok knowing the highest level of literature they can stammer through is "the cat in the hat". I'm not asking all these kids to go be 4.0, AP class, 2000 SAT students, but academic complacency at 7th grade and up is a mark of a lazy kid - it's just as big a strike against the kid as it is against the parents who aren't involved in their kids' learning and the teachers who pass them. Reading at a 4th grade level? Really breh? You're going to try to defend this?
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Yum!
By looking at these high flying dunks, you would be led to believe this guy is one of those athletes who read at a grade school level. When you get the privilege of hearing how well he speaks, you wish more black student athletes were like him. This student athlete is from Chicago and went to Whitney Young, the same high school our first lady went to.
That may be part of if but the larger part is that if the schools had to pay the football and basketball players then it opens up numerous cans of worms.
1. Where is the money coming from that is being used to pay the players? Is it from the school itself? If so then schools like Texas, Alabama, Florida, etc...could pay their players and it wouldnt hurt their budget at all. But what about schools like Northwestern, GT, Wake Forest, UCF, etc...? They couldnt afford to pay their students the same amount as Texas does and not wreck their budget. Those schools would have to get rid of their baseball, volleyball, tennis, and every other non-revenue sport just to support the bball and football teams.
2. How do you decide which sports have paid athletes? If the womans bball team is the money earner at a school do they get paid and the mens team gets nothing? What if its the baseball team?
3. Do all the players on a team get paid or just the superstars? If all the players on the football team get paid then if im a decent football and lacrosse player then im going to try and get on the football team and forget about lacrosse. I need that money to help me during my time at school. If only the superstars of a team get paid then im not going to school A and be the 2nd best lineman, im going to school B which may not be as good but since i will be the best there im going to get paid. That ruins your depth.
I think they should go to the rule they have in baseball. You can go to the league out of high school but if you go to college you have to stay 3 years. I dont see anyone in baseball complaining about that.
Interesting topic. At my university, I encountered what could have possibly been the dumbest motherfukker in existence. This nikka would sit in class and stare at blank pieces of paper and the sky. He never said a sentence that was more than five words. 
No way that cat goes to college without football. I personally overheard a white athlete give directions to someone writing his paper.
As a teacher, some of the most lazy and downright idiotic students were the athletes (a sizable portion of them were special ed students). I will say they at least tried in my class because they knew I'd fail them with the quickness
If anything, I coddle the smart athletes who work hard in class
No way that cat goes to college without football. I personally overheard a white athlete give directions to someone writing his paper.As a teacher, some of the most lazy and downright idiotic students were the athletes (a sizable portion of them were special ed students). I will say they at least tried in my class because they knew I'd fail them with the quickness
If anything, I coddle the smart athletes who work hard in class