Sports scholarships = oxymoron?? nyuk nyuk

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In a message dated 98-02-12 13:50:31 EST, you write:

<< "I play football.  I'm not try to be a professor.  The tests don't seem
 to make sense to me;  measuring your brain on stuff I haven't been through
 in school."
 - Clemson recruit Ray Forsythe, who was ineligible as a freshman because
 of accademic requirements. >>

Me:

Reminds me of the Bradley University basketball team that won the NIT
basketball championship quite a few years ago. One of the players had been
placed on academic suspension; as near as we (the engineering students) could
figure, he got in trouble for attending classes.

The real oxymoron- "Student Athlete"  (sad, but true)
BTW, don't say this around a football player,..... you could be in real
trouble if someone explains it to him. (He might also think you are calling
him an ox-like stupid person).

I remember when the NIT championship team members had all been cut from the
NBA teams that had drafted them. When asked his advice, Dick Versace,their
coach at Bradley (and later assistant coach of the Detroit Pistons, and then
an NBC commentator), suggested that they might want to "enroll in college and
pursue a degree". Glad to see the coach made the most of their college years.
I guess it took him 4 years to figure out that they might need an education.

Pastor Joe