Am in no position to defend NCAA $sport$ policie$. I did graduate work at one university that was good enough to play Larry Bird's IU team way back when. There was a small scandal. Our Aggies had a player I might not name but his nickname was 'Slab'. He failed a Botany course (not easy to do) and upper management wanted that to go away. Bio. grad student involved in grading (also nameless) said "heck no". Actually her last two letters were ck but the first two might have been fu. A single instance proves nothing, yet it may delight. Overall I assume that most NCAA players obtain a typical amount of 'college' from college. Perhaps it is not so. But surely most do not go pro, and if afterwards they were profoundly uneducated and destitute, would we not here more about that? Another way to view situation is that most students do not obtain as much 'college' from college as they really should. This would set a low bar for NCAA-ers.
i can't argue with that, as that is how it was for me personally. but i don't have any stats, and i wouldn't know where to go to find them. when i was in school, ('73-'77) student athletes were treated like royalty, but did not have to go to class and passed all their courses. when my children went, ('99-'07) it didn't seem much different. there are plenty of smart athletes, but plenty who, after not making the pros have to fall back on whatever their high school graduate counterparts are doing.
Turf@36 was somewhat unsettling. I had a perfectly capable lab tech here whose undergraduate major was turf management. He taught me stuff about that I did not know. Do not belittle without good cause. Same fella, while married with kid, was sick in love with Li Na the tennis player. While doing my stuff on one computer, he was watching her games on another. Just goes to show that technology does leaps and bounds, while human nature stays the same. Please pardon this distraction from...whatever it was we were talking about.
did not have to go to class@43. Well, that seems wrong, and I offer no cure. Care to disclose what shoddy school that was?
i graduated from umass school of turf management in 1979. i thought ray was being facetious, like basketweaving.
boston college@47. A very fine institution. 'Twas there as I recall, an ecology conference with a 'Guyana'-themed luncheon. There was also a kool-aid machine. I said "Dudes, are you really doing this?"
there are lots of good nematodes, but also some bad ones. what you learn is to send a soil sample to the local extension office for testing, if you are having a problem. turf management is more about overall maintenance, recognition and identification. there is less science than you might think, or maybe that was just me.
Smelled like almonds I suppose there may be some youngish, ill-read viewers here with no idea what we're going on about. But I crack myself up with humorous recollections.
Some just don’t get our sarcasm and force us to look back at what post we were. And isn’t Underwater Basket weaving what you get your Masters in.
nematodes@51 are neither good nor bad. They simply work for or against your narrow goals. NCAA fans here may not appreciate that there are more nematodes on earth than any other multicellular organisim. Approx. a fuckazillion at latest count. There. I said it.
I'm going to fess up. Back when DePaul almost made it to the Final Four, I helped one of the players cheat. I did Clyde Bradshaw's programming homework for him to get into good graces with my roommate. Obviously, it didn't help much! Posted via the PriusChat mobile app.
Hey Ray! my college was also Beavers! So we have that. But as you spoke of filled sports stadium, yours must have been a different one.
Clyde@55. Any idea what he's up to now? One would not suppose Information Science. Just trying to get you off the hook.
The only school I can think of whose mascot is the beaver that probably wouldn't fill an athletic stadium would be MIT... Posted via the PriusChat mobile app.
I am not one to chastise anyone for their level of education . I work with plenty of coworkers whose highest level is high school, and they have done well for themselves . Work ethic and integrity go a lot further.
