Coach Cal VS White America and the College Athlete Indentured Servitude System
I’ve always been curious as to the difference between Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and millions of other human beings who stop short of graduation at Universities to fulfill their goals and pursue their dreams.
Perhaps, it’s because so many “One and Done” Basketball players are Black and Whitey in America can’t stand to see a Black human being shorting the byzantine “education” system which they themselves cannot short.
There’s that old race card. Doh!
Seriously, though, why is it a “crime” for a person who wishes to pursue a career (albeit a short career) as a professional Basketball athlete to do so without obtaining a College Degree? What about Basketball requires a 4 year degree? Nothing that I can see. A more mind boggling aspect of this asinine argument is that most college degrees are worthless while pursuit of said worthless scrap of paper is creating more debt for Americans than home ownership. Yet, an athlete who has the opportunity to earn millions of dollars over a 3 to 15 year period is supposed to desire a college degree so much so that he (or she) delays earning said millions in order to obtain said worthless scrap of paper while putting himself at risk of injury and a loss of possible future earnings. Is that insane or am I not seeing some “big picture?”
Also, why is it not a viable course for these persons, if they should wish to acquire/earn a degree, that they not return to college AFTER they have finished their career as an NBA or other league professional athlete?
This seems to me to be naught but the “hating” of untalented people upon those persons blessed with the talents necessary to pursue the NBA profession.
No one seems to care all that much when Baseball athletes go to the league straight out of HS or two years out of College.
No one cared when Tiger Woods quit Stanford to pursue his goal of competing professionally at Golf.
No one cared/cares that Bill Gates didn’t finish at MIT. Same for Steve Jobs.
The only gnashing of teeth and faux concern seems to be for Basketball athletes.
This seems odd to me.
Then we have Calipari who is teaching/coaching/mentoring/advising some of these top kids on their way to their professional goals. In any other endeavor, Calipari would be seen in a positive light. Not so, though, because he is doing so with athletes who wish to pursue a goal of playing basketball in the NBA.
I find this odd. I find it hypocritical. I find it lunatic.
But…you guys go on gnashing your teeth, pulling out your hair, flagellating your backs and lamenting to the heavens the horrible sin of coaching young men and assisting those who wish to pursue the goal of reaching the NBA.
Cal has a fairly decent track record of placing these top recruits into the NBA. No other coach comes close.
But Cal is a villain for helping these guys reach their goals.
Only in White America is it possible to help folks and be vilified for having done so.
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