[Magdalen] Major athletic scandal

[Cantor03 at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/23/2014 10:10:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com writes:

few  members of U.N.C. sports teams >>>
 
You know, I get pissed by the enormous attention athletes get  starting
at the high school level.  I guess this is heavily because I was  not
the least bit athletic.  OTOH, I excelled in speech, debate, sang in  the
high school choir, and played a mean Sousaphone in high school, and
you never saw anyone fawning over me or my peers.
 
It's all part of this continued (male especially) fixation on sports,  
particularly
football.(pronounced locally at a very fast, clipped  pace as  FUH-buh).
 
I am naturally interested in the Big Ten, but I have to check on the
Notre Dame scores weekly so I can talk with any of the natives.  Ditto  the
Eagles and the Steelers.  ("What do you think of those Eagles?")
 
Of course they are fixated here on Penn State, but I have flags of
Wisconsin and Minnesota flying from my deck (I have degrees from both
schools) in order to shock the natives.
 
Anyway, I'm not surprised at the athletes' fudged courses and grades.
The big money maker for colleges is football, and they'll do anything
to keep the teams going.
 
 
 
D.