Back in the 70's-80's watching college football, I was always amused by all of the "hospitality & hotel management" or communications majors on all of the major college football powers that got announced when introducing the lineups.

Uh, eh, eh, I, I, I, look again, you talk about the walking rectums, the human assbags, the UUUUH PEEEENUSes in college baksetball, uh, eh, he, Bobby Knight, Coach K, uh, eh, eh, and look, again, there are the good guys like Bob Huggins, but uh, eh, eeeeee, and I'm, uuuuu, look, for the love of God, Roy Williams is one of the worst!

I always respected the guys who were Phys Ed majors. It seemed honest.

Seeing first hand what went on at DePaul & Illinois (in the Mike White/Neal Stoner era) and hearing about what happened at most schools just leaves me flat on stories like this.

For the life of me, I distinctly remember Boers thinking Huggins used to be among the worst of the worst, especially with his lack of a graduation rate. I always thought his feelings were wildly exagerrated, but when did Terry do a 180 degree change.

I'd only have a problem with it if there were players that wanted to concentrate more on school and couldn't.

If a guy wants to go to college and mess around for four years on someone else's dime that is their right. A lot of rich kids do the same with their parents backing.

My guess is at North Carolina, they were encouraging these players to do this and not simply making it an option.

General Studies

So when I took "Philosophy of Sports", "Repelling" , "Referee class" at U of A with Steve Kerr, Sean Elliott and Kenny Lofton....you are saying this might not have been the fine education my parents invested for me???????????

I always respected the guys who were Phys Ed majors. It seemed honest.

So when I took "Philosophy of Sports", "Repelling" , "Referee class" at U of A with Steve Kerr, Sean Elliott and Kenny Lofton....you are saying this might not have been the fine education my parents invested for me??????????? NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOO!

One of the easier majors, and one that a lot of athletes took was Organizational Leadership Studies. Though, that also ended up being one of the majors with the highest job placement ratings especially when compared to most of the other easy majors.

My roommate was one and got a pretty good job right out of college. It was basically an easier version of a business degree.

I'm pretty sure you and I have a different philosophy about the purpose of a university education. I see it as a quest for knowledge. You seem to view it as means to getting a job. That's what trade schools are for.

It's only a quest for knowledge if you come from a rich family. If you need to support yourself, it is a way to get a good job and then you can go to your library once your student loans are paid off.

But that's part of the problem. We've simply created a system where a college degree is the new high school degree. It's simply the base line for getting a job at all. I understand what you're saying practically. So now we have an entire country full of college grads that don't know shit.

Did. Not. Happen.

I'm a big believer in the specialization of knowledge. I'd rather be an expert in one subject rather than know about a lot of different things. We all serve our purpose. If my purpose doesn't require a solid knowledge of french literature then I don't need to worry about it.

My biggest regret from college is that I took history classes over business classes. The only thing those history classes gave me was a few ironic truths about myself and a greater understanding of punk rock. I'm probably the only guy on this whole board who took a college level history class on the History of Rock and Roll and I'd rather listen to Nelly over The Beatles.

I'm a big believer in the specialization of knowledge. I'd rather be an expert in one subject rather than know about a lot of different things. We all serve our purpose. If my purpose doesn't require a solid knowledge of french literature then I don't need to worry about it.

My biggest regret from college is that I took history classes over business classes. The only thing those history classes gave me was a few ironic truths about myself and a greater understanding of punk rock. I'm probably the only guy on this whole board who took a college level history class on the History of Rock and Roll and I'd rather listen to Nelly over The Beatles.

But what you're describing is not education. It's training. There's a huge difference.

I took a 400 level course in college called Drug Education, I am fairly certain I remember it being nothing but athletes. The instructor was the basketball coach. They had a small tournament to start the year and he told the rest of us if we worked the tournament we would get a A in the class. That was a fine tournament.