Brady'sButtBoy
2nd Team Getting Their First Start
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Mainefan's intention may be honorable in defending low scorers on standardized tests in general. However, the gentlemen in question here just spent several years IN COLLEGE, not some under priviledged public high school.
Even if the football program has a set up to let players off the hook and demand nearly zero genuine schoolwork, the opportunity for gaining knowledge literally surrounds the players shoud they choose to tap into it. Coaches, administrators, boosters, et al, deserve some of the blame for allowing athletes to avoid study but the players themselves bear a great deal of the responsibility for only managing a 4 or a 9 on the Wonderlic. When you consider that the test score has some bearing on how they will be viewed by NFL teams, and thus could directly impact a player's future earnings, the lack of effort to gain even a modicum of general knowledge by a COLLEGE football player becomes a personal embarrassment - an embarrassment he surely could have avoided in spite of any cultural disadvantages. Major college campuses are crawling with sources of assistance for students struggling with their studies, it is a simply conscious choice not to employ them.
Mainefan may mean well, but IMHO he's off base on this issue.
Even if the football program has a set up to let players off the hook and demand nearly zero genuine schoolwork, the opportunity for gaining knowledge literally surrounds the players shoud they choose to tap into it. Coaches, administrators, boosters, et al, deserve some of the blame for allowing athletes to avoid study but the players themselves bear a great deal of the responsibility for only managing a 4 or a 9 on the Wonderlic. When you consider that the test score has some bearing on how they will be viewed by NFL teams, and thus could directly impact a player's future earnings, the lack of effort to gain even a modicum of general knowledge by a COLLEGE football player becomes a personal embarrassment - an embarrassment he surely could have avoided in spite of any cultural disadvantages. Major college campuses are crawling with sources of assistance for students struggling with their studies, it is a simply conscious choice not to employ them.
Mainefan may mean well, but IMHO he's off base on this issue.