As if student athletes needed an excuse for falling asleep in class, they’re being given a doozy. But this one carries a little more cache than “F*** school, I’m on varsity.” Their games are ending too late.
This isn’t an east coast kid watching the NBA finals start at 9:30. This is high school basketball parents and coaches getting wound up over late game times. How late are we talking here? “After midnight.” Won’t somebody please think of the children?
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The hometown paper ANN ARBOR NEWS won’t roll over and fluff the Michigan Wolverines, even if college counselors are that way with student-athletes by pointing many of them toward lenient general studies majors and enrolling in the classes for them.
In a four-day exposé, the newspaper compiled not exactly startling, but rather sobering information about the decisions in college courses that student-athletes either make, or are made for them. And would you believe it? Some of the former scholarship players regret not focusing more on the unique gift of free edu-ma-cation. Read more…
