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kybassfan

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These are truly becoming bush league semi pro teams based on college campuses. I’m waiting for the legal disclaimers to begin. Something like “we feature today the Kentucky Wildcats which in no way are affiliated with the university of Kentucky…..”. Insert your favorite semi pro team.

I am glad that Kentucky finished as the best college basketball team of all time. Surely college sports has ended.
 
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Sawnee Cat said:
Why even require college athletes to go to class. 75% are there for the sole purpose of playing ball. Make them Independent Contractors free to jump from one school to another.

College athletics has been a fraud and a joke for many, many decades. It is time to pull back the covers and allow the light to shine on what it really is. A money making endeavor for the Universities that has nothing to do with academics.

Let them by pass college academics and pay them to represent the university, not as a student but as a paid athlete. Then no rules that apply to other students will apply to them. Why not?
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UNCheats has already established that model and the NCAA will follow. The NCAA wants to follow the Carolina Way.
 
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THE_HOOK said:
I'm going to say it because no one else will, "lib***ls" have totally f'''ked up this country. Coming to a hospital or doctors office near you in the very near future, a doctor with an IQ of 1. They WILL NOT STOP with just college athletics.
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Substitute the last line to "no, but I did go to college without having no know anything."
 
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According to the ESPN crawler where I first saw this announced, the purpose is to promote minority "equity". WTF does that even mean? FYI, equity does not equal equality. So, equity in what?...a failing educational system?
Basically, we're going to compromise the entire system because someone thinks minorities aren't well represented on college campuses? Have any of these people actually been on a college campus???
 
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Blueworld_3.0 said:
According to the ESPN crawler where I first saw this announced, the purpose is to promote minority "equity". WTF does that even mean? FYI, equity does not equal equality. So, equity in what?...a failing educational system?
Basically, we're going to compromise the entire system because someone thinks minorities aren't well represented on college campuses? Have any of these people actually been on a college campus???
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So maybe they must mean self worth... That has nothing to do with equality.. Must have been one of those UNCheats or Duke professionals who come up with this crap..


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Long overdue IMO, for a lot of these kids an athletic scholarship is going to allow them to completely change their lives. Most of these kids aren't 'stupid' they just come from upbringings where the support system around them makes it more difficult the succeed academically. I'm sure the first time it benefits UK a lot of the negative comments in this thread will quickly change.
 
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CapnBlubs said:
I teach college biology and have colleagues who regularly argue that we should have no tests and no deadlines. This will soon be the norm.

Many of these students are headed for medical careers. Good luck to all future patients.
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My chiropractor used to tell me this joke:

Q: What do you call a med student who gets As?
A: Doctor.

Q: What do you call a med student who gets Cs?
A: Doctor.
 
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It's funny to see the people who believe the universe was created by one mystical being is now decrying the "dumbing down" of society.

First, why do you all care if standardized tests are used, or do you just like to ***** about anything that challenges the status quo? Second, standardized tests have been proven to be biased and they don't prove anything. All they prove is that you know how to take a test.
 
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THE_HOOK said:
I'm going to say it because no one else will, "lib***ls" have totally f'''ked up this country. Coming to a hospital or doctors office near you in the very near future, a doctor with an IQ of 1. They WILL NOT STOP with just college athletics.
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Kentucky votes conservative almost all the time, why is our education so poor compared to rest of the country?
 
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kb22stang said:
Kentucky votes conservative almost all the time, why is our education so poor compared to rest of the country?
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Trillions of $$$'s have been spent on education in the US since 1980 and this nation regularly ranks in the 30's globally. Liberals currently hold both houses of Congress and the White House. We just suffered through 8 years of another liberal named Obama. Why is American education so average compared to the rest of the world? It isn't because we haven't thrown good money after bad repeatedly for decades.
Maybe we aren't demanding enough from students and teachers for the dollars being spent?
You know, like asking them to have a minimum test score to be accepted into a so-called institution of higher learning?
 
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I love this place. Do some of you all know that many schools don't require standardized tests anymore? Arizona, SMU, Wake Forest, NYU, Arizona State, Texas Tech, Ole Miss, Nebraska, Oklahoma State, UNLV, Kansas State, Kansas, LSU, Marquette and Oklahoma to name a few.

What are we supposed to be upset about again?
 
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kb22stang said:
Kentucky votes conservative almost all the time, why is our education so poor compared to rest of the country?
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Maybe try looking at the public school system and their union. Students from the private schools seem to do very well. When teachers are allowed to take paid days off work to go the the state capitol to protest then what do you expect?
 
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Colonial Farm 80 said:
Major college athletics is about major colleges. As Bill Gates proved, people don't have to attend college to make money. But it is destructive to the society to weaken and remove the traditional standards that made America successful in the first place.

There is nothing wrong, and never was anything wrong, with receiving a free university education, food, and housing in return for playing amateur baseball, football, or basketball for 4 years. It is ridiculous how much this basic social compact is becoming corrupted for immediate gratification and greed.

The corruption of our system of education is in progress. The US used to have the best system of education in the world. That won't be the case much longer. Our primary schools have already been dumbed down by the teachers unions. The universities are being slowly destroyed by people who don't grasp the difference between money and higher education, not to mention malevolent foreign actors corrupting our campuses. It is an unfolding tragedy, and hopefully people are waking up to this.

What does all this have to do with college athletics? Young people are being taught to envy other people's money, hate traditional values, and follow false idols. College athletics, like many other traditional activities in the culture, are being sucked into the greater struggle between instant gratification and methodical construction of solid life and family habits. This is just another stumble down the rabbit hole. But a lot of people don't see it coming because it is a slippery slope.
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If they are dumbed down enough they are easier to control
 
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THE_HOOK said:
I'm going to say it because no one else will, "lib***ls" have totally f'''ked up this country. Coming to a hospital or doctors office near you in the very near future, a doctor with an IQ of 1. They WILL NOT STOP with just college athletics.
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The reason no one else is saying it, is because you are a moron and what you are saying is empirically false.

Conservative run states and conservative run school systems routinely rate at the bottom of academic rankings. They spend their time trying to prevent specific aspects of science, history, and literature from being taught because they disagree with it, often using religion as a crutch to defend their indefensible actions. Look at how many conservative politicians have whipped their constituents into a fervor over "critical race theory." CRT is a COLLEGE LEVEL COURSE. At no point has CRT ever been taught at the public school level. Yet look at all the conservative politicians wasting time and money "fighting to stop CRT indoctrination in middle and high schools." And uneducated people, also known as the conservative base, eat it up with a spoon. You are probably one of the dumbasses who has posted something on Facebook or Parler about the righteous fight to keep CRT out of your local public schools.

Ignorant people like you are the exact reason why conservative politicians keep dumbing down the education the kids receive in their local schools. They know you have to be an absolute idiot to swallow the BS they spout on the campaign trail. You have to be one of the dumbest mother f***ers on the planet to see a politician ranting about CRT in public schools and think "I agree with that." Meanwhile, educated people sit back and wonder why are people getting upset about GRADUATE LEVEL COURSES that have absolutely nothing to do with K-12 public education.
 
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Cotaay said:
Long overdue IMO, for a lot of these kids an athletic scholarship is going to allow them to completely change their lives. Most of these kids aren't 'stupid' they just come from upbringings where the support system around them makes it more difficult the succeed academically. I'm sure the first time it benefits UK a lot of the negative comments in this thread will quickly change.
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I don’t change my values for sports.
 
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Kerwinwaltonsafro said:
The reason no one else is saying it, is because you are a moron and what you are saying is empirically false.

Conservative run states and conservative run school systems routinely rate at the bottom of academic rankings. They spend their time trying to prevent specific aspects of science, history, and literature from being taught because they disagree with it, often using religion as a crutch to defend their indefensible actions. Look at how many conservative politicians have whipped their constituents into a fervor over "critical race theory." CRT is a COLLEGE LEVEL COURSE. At no point has CRT ever been taught at the public school level. Yet look at all the conservative politicians wasting time and money "fighting to stop CRT indoctrination in middle and high schools." And uneducated people, also known as the conservative base, eat it up with a spoon. You are probably one of the dumbasses who has posted something on Facebook or Parler about the righteous fight to keep CRT out of your local public schools.

Ignorant people like you are the exact reason why conservative politicians keep dumbing down the education the kids receive in their local schools. They know you have to be an absolute idiot to swallow the BS they spout on the campaign trail. You have to be one of the dumbest mother f***ers on the planet to see a politician ranting about CRT in public schools and think "I agree with that." Meanwhile, educated people sit back and wonder why are people getting upset about GRADUATE LEVEL COURSES that have absolutely nothing to do with K-12 public education.
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Please give us a link to show that conservative run school systems rate at the bottom. Lexington Catholic and Lexington Christian academy rate at the top of the academic rankings and they are both conservative run school systems. Might want to get your facts correct before posting.
 
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THE_HOOK said:
I'm going to say it because no one else will, "lib***ls" have totally f'''ked up this country. Coming to a hospital or doctors office near you in the very near future, a doctor with an IQ of 1. They WILL NOT STOP with just college athletics.
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This is not true. I will say it
Liberal have ****** up this country and everything that it stands for. I hope they are happy with gas prices being doubled since your liberal hero Biden has took office and they will continue to go up. Let me say it again liberals suck and they always will
 
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