Graduate Assistant Describes Athlete Classes

[kinch]

I don't think that this is quite worthy of posting in the football forum.

Reddit.com has an "IAMA" section: a section of the board in which someone says "I am a ____, ask me anything." The person may be a pilot, a Burger King employee, or in fact me.

Well yesterday one was a graduate assistant who described the silliness of "student athletes" and how their classes were not real, and that they never missed an "A" and were given no real work, and were in fact given the answers: otherwise one was not allowed to teach the class. He eventually admitted he worked in the SEC, then admitted it was Florida, and he finally freaked out and deleted all of his association with the thread for fear of getting caught.

You can find the thread here: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/gavlh/iama_graduate_student_who_was_in_charge_of_a/

All of what he said would lead to NCAA violations. It is easy to see his posts: they are the ones that are obviously answering questions and show the username for those posts as "deleted."

So anyway Gatorubet, what do you have to say?

 

[JBaney45]

Yeah, don't think a forum post is going to make the ncaa get off their asses though.

 

[Gatorubet]

I don't think that this is quite worthy of posting in the football forum.

Reddit.com has an "IAMA" section: a section of the board in which someone says "I am a ____, ask me anything." The person may be a pilot, a Burger King employee, or in fact me.

Well yesterday one was a graduate assistant who described the silliness of "student athletes" and how their classes were not real, and that they never missed an "A" and were given no real work, and were in fact given the answers: otherwise one was not allowed to teach the class. He eventually admitted he worked in the SEC, then admitted it was Florida, and he finally freaked out and deleted all of his association with the thread for fear of getting caught.

You can find the thread here: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/gavlh/iama_graduate_student_who_was_in_charge_of_a/

All of what he said would lead to NCAA violations. It is easy to see his posts: they are the ones that are obviously answering questions and show the username for those posts as "deleted."

So anyway Gatorubet, what do you have to say?

I say I was a fan before Charlie Pell came, and after he went, and I'll be a fan no matter who we hire. If we cheat and get punished, then that is cool, as long as it was not like the NCAA investigating 1985 and punishing the 1990 team that did not do a thing wrong, and none of them were involved.

If we are doing academic bullshit the same as FSU after the trouble they got in, then we are doubly stupid and deserve even worse penalties.

 

[MaxBuck]

Athletes cheating, enrolling in Underwater Basketweaving 101 for 8 credits, and getting blowjobs from TAs? I can't imagine any of these things happening at any credible university.




Oops. Meant to say, I can't imagine any university with an athletic department where this stuff doesn't happen. My bad.

 

[Deety]

I remember a football player down my dorm hall freshman year who asked me for some help with a paper. He'd gone into military service before his original freshman year started and was having trouble getting back into academics after a few years away. After we worked on the first few paragraphs together, he wandered down the hall to find snacks and didn't come back. I went to hang out in the lounge with the rest of the hall. When he showed up late that evening he was pretty surprised not to have a whole essay ready, and we all laughed at him. I think that's when he realized that some schools are D1, and others are very much not. :p

 

[kinch]

I never got an underwater basket blowjob. :(

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

I'm shocked to find barely literate D1 football/basketball players hiding out in phys ed majors. Shocked.