The funniest part of all of this is the fact that coach K is selling kids & their parents on the superiority of a Duke education.
The facade of duke being some sort academics bastion died a long time ago. Their athletes are no more academia than any other school in the country. Just frauds with puffed out chests and danglers at ESPN and every major "journalist" promoting their hypocrisy.Sexual Pleasures of the Modern World
History of Hip-Hop
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Copy of Writing 101: The Disney Version
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The athletes are no more intelligent or academic minded than any other kid in the country. It's been a fraud and fake narrative all along.I think you have to have a 30 minimum on your ACT to get accepted at Duke, unless...
Gotta love them private universities.
duke, their school, their whole thing is the epitome of hypocrisy. It is nauseating.Say it ain't so. But, these parents want their sons to go to Duke because it is such a premier academic facility. I can see why they wouldn't want to send them to UK with such classes as English 101, American History, along with a science and math course. I mean who would want to waste your time with those, when you could study the history of hip hop, and Disney movies? What hypocrisy.
But but but he’s such a great kid!
The fact those classes exist show what a money racket college is. Smh.
I went to WKU as well. I remember getting pumped to take "Astro-bunny" because I was looking forward to at least one easy class. Unfortunately, I drew the head of the dept teaching it who was out to dispel that rumor. Ended up with a C in the class that required 40 pages a night of reading and tests that had physics/calculus questions on it related to astronomy calculations. Yeah, times have changed.
What happened to the good ole Duke Sociology degree?
How do you know he’s a good kid? He took money to play college basketball, takes phony classes, and yet all you all can say is how good a kid he is.He seems like a pretty good kid to me. What do these classes have to do with whether or not that’s true?
I went to WKU as well. I remember getting pumped to take "Astro-bunny" because I was looking forward to at least one easy class. Unfortunately, I drew the head of the dept teaching it who was out to dispel that rumor. Ended up with a C in the class that required 40 pages a night of reading and tests that had physics/calculus questions on it related to astronomy calculations. Yeah, times have changed.
Try 34
Hey I took a music history class. History of Rock and Roll.
The funniest part of all of this is the fact that coach K is selling kids & their parents on the superiority of a Duke education.
One of the funniest things that happen to me at WKU was walking into my Biology class. The first day the professor proclaimed that the source of all the problems in the world was... wait for it...
Walt Disney.
No crap.
I dropped the class immediately and took a different professor for Biology. He laughed when I told him who's class I transferred in from. Apparently that was pretty normal practice every semester.
Freshman and sophomore level classes in college are a cakewalk anyway. Which is why I always get a kick out of comments about all our guys who “hate school.” No longer than they’re here school is a cakewalk. You don’t get into the relevant meat of your college courses until you get into your major/graduate level courses. Which none of these guys ever do. So why do we pretend to give a shit about what level 100 or 200 level classes they take? None of it matters.
The athletes are no more intelligent or academic minded than any other kid in the country. It's been a fraud and fake narrative all along.
One day, folks will realize college is the biggest scam in history
It only matters because society has said it matters, but now college degrees are like old high school diplomas - everyone is getting one and watering down the white collar labor force.
Blue collar jobs pay more and require less initial debt to access. I'm hoping the next trend leads to the gradual abandonment of the philosophical emphasis and placed more emphasis on skilled labor.
One of the funniest things that happen to me at WKU was walking into my Biology class. The first day the professor proclaimed that the source of all the problems in the world was... wait for it...
Walt Disney.
No crap.
I dropped the class immediately and took a different professor for Biology. He laughed when I told him who's class I transferred in from. Apparently that was pretty normal practice every semester.
Pretty sure Zion was Hard during that PowerPointKentucky has never pretended to be the Hard of the South.
It only matters because society has said it matters, but now college degrees are like old high school diplomas - everyone is getting one and watering down the white collar labor force.
Blue collar jobs pay more and require less initial debt to access. I'm hoping the next trend leads to the gradual abandonment of the philosophical emphasis and placed more emphasis on skilled labor.
It's sad as a HS teacher to watch the decline of higher education.
It's scary as a parent of a 7 year old (who has been adamant since he was 3 years old that he was going to be a Paleontologist) to watch it.
I read that article, I think I’ll go vomit now
How do you know he’s a good kid? He took money to play college basketball, takes phony classes, and yet all you all can say is how good a kid he is.
There is nothing wrong with any of those courses on an individual basis (assuming they are legit and done well). The problem would be taking only those kind of courses. I wonder to what extent one and done players around the country take only fun elective type classes? Is there no NCAA requirement about taking core classes?
And, I don’t see how any of this is some kind of commentary on the value of college in general. Good luck to those of you who think that going to college is worthless.
There is nothing wrong with any of those courses on an individual basis (assuming they are legit and done well). The problem would be taking only those kind of courses. I wonder to what extent one and done players around the country take only fun elective type classes? Is there no NCAA requirement about taking core classes?
And, I don’t see how any of this is some kind of commentary on the value of college in general. Good luck to those of you who think that going to college is worthless.
Sexual Pleasures of the Modern World
History of Hip-Hop
The Theater Today
Copy of Writing 101: The Disney Version
https://www.slamonline.com/nba/zion-williamson-cover/
The indoctrination is real.
As a TA this year, I saw it first hand. The gospel of Karl Marx.