donbosco
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A sure-fire one-and-done basketball player’s matriculation: some musings.
Help me out here ZZLPers. Note the tag here of *sure fire one-and-done* - presumably the *hopefully one-and-done* would need to pay more attention to maintaining eligibility given they might be returning for a second year.
So this student-athlete likely arrives on their campus in early to mid-August to begin playing pick-up with their teammates. Do they attend summer school? There doesn’t seem to be any reason for that actually. The player is financially well-off and can afford a very nice place to live, maybe even buy a house. Do one or both of their parents quit their jobs and relocate with the young man and serve as their paid personal manager at this point? Puts a new spin on parenting for sure.
When the fall semester begins presumably the player must enroll in classes. The requisite number of credits is something like 12 I suspect. What DOES the NCAA mandate? Let’s say 12 credits is four courses. Whatever they are they must not be ‘fail-able.’ We called such courses “slides” when I was a student and quite a few existed. HealthEd 41, Poli Sci 41, many of the intro courses in the Social Sciences fit the bill. I took Geology with L.T. and Portuguese with Dudley Bradley. “Slides” are a hallowed institution - the phrase “Rocks for Jocks” is known nationwide. Their existence dates back generations.
So the player enters the fall semester armed with a Sugar-Daddy of a schedule of simple, undemanding classes taught by cooperative faculty and passes all 12 credits. Are paid note-takers legit? Tutors? Book-carriers? Chauffeurs to drop off the player at class on-time? After all, the young man is a millionaire already and bears even more massive earning potential. Are his classes useful in any way? Are they designed to educate him for his future as a millionaire? Might they be independent studies or smallish seminars conducted by finance professors? Diet specialists? Kinesiologists? How does the one-and-done factory serve their charges in the realm of education? Do they even try? Could such things even be part of the inducement (along with the $7 million of course)?
Entering the spring semester the player acquires a new schedule. At this point do the courses chosen even matter? This student will, after all, only be officially affiliated with the academic sector of the school through the month of March - first weekend of April - at the most - and since they are not returning for their sophomore year won’t need to give classes any attention? Or is there some mid-term semester NCAA or institutional hoop to be jumped? No doubt those sorts of things can be arranged.
Thus by the second week of April the one-and-done bids his school farewell, moving on to prepare for the fully professional ranks and a contract that will put to shame the pitiful $7 million or so his once-potential Alma Mater has paid him for his eight months of work.
Where might I have missed details here? Just gotten it wrong?
Help me out here ZZLPers. Note the tag here of *sure fire one-and-done* - presumably the *hopefully one-and-done* would need to pay more attention to maintaining eligibility given they might be returning for a second year.
So this student-athlete likely arrives on their campus in early to mid-August to begin playing pick-up with their teammates. Do they attend summer school? There doesn’t seem to be any reason for that actually. The player is financially well-off and can afford a very nice place to live, maybe even buy a house. Do one or both of their parents quit their jobs and relocate with the young man and serve as their paid personal manager at this point? Puts a new spin on parenting for sure.
When the fall semester begins presumably the player must enroll in classes. The requisite number of credits is something like 12 I suspect. What DOES the NCAA mandate? Let’s say 12 credits is four courses. Whatever they are they must not be ‘fail-able.’ We called such courses “slides” when I was a student and quite a few existed. HealthEd 41, Poli Sci 41, many of the intro courses in the Social Sciences fit the bill. I took Geology with L.T. and Portuguese with Dudley Bradley. “Slides” are a hallowed institution - the phrase “Rocks for Jocks” is known nationwide. Their existence dates back generations.
So the player enters the fall semester armed with a Sugar-Daddy of a schedule of simple, undemanding classes taught by cooperative faculty and passes all 12 credits. Are paid note-takers legit? Tutors? Book-carriers? Chauffeurs to drop off the player at class on-time? After all, the young man is a millionaire already and bears even more massive earning potential. Are his classes useful in any way? Are they designed to educate him for his future as a millionaire? Might they be independent studies or smallish seminars conducted by finance professors? Diet specialists? Kinesiologists? How does the one-and-done factory serve their charges in the realm of education? Do they even try? Could such things even be part of the inducement (along with the $7 million of course)?
Entering the spring semester the player acquires a new schedule. At this point do the courses chosen even matter? This student will, after all, only be officially affiliated with the academic sector of the school through the month of March - first weekend of April - at the most - and since they are not returning for their sophomore year won’t need to give classes any attention? Or is there some mid-term semester NCAA or institutional hoop to be jumped? No doubt those sorts of things can be arranged.
Thus by the second week of April the one-and-done bids his school farewell, moving on to prepare for the fully professional ranks and a contract that will put to shame the pitiful $7 million or so his once-potential Alma Mater has paid him for his eight months of work.
Where might I have missed details here? Just gotten it wrong?
