Buy/Sell: Going to class is like pulling teeth for most FB players

[DamnitDog]

per DP's lack of class attendance....Is going to a class, any class, that hard for these guys?

Seems like some of these guys think gettting out of bed, going to a damn room, sitting in a freakin' desk, possibly opening up a damn book, probably not even taking notes and maybe not even listening to a teacher talk about stuff for 1 hour is the equivalent to an Al-Qaeda terrorist being torchured at Gitmo or something?

Come on guys, we're taking about PE courses, health classess, maybe Business, marketing or Inter-disciplinary studies...its not rocket science IS IT! and plus this is MSU not Harvard right?

If you're a freakin' human being with the ability to drive and walk around, read, write and breathe in this world and you think going to a damn class at MSU is hard then to hell with your weak ***.

 

[DovaDawg]

I'm going to go the opposite route here. How many days did I wake up and think "Man, I think I'll play volleyball and get drunk today. Screw class."
These kids are working out, running, etc all summer. I can tell you if I had to get up at 5am and run and then go to class, 4 is the minimum I would have missed.

 

[studentdawg87]

They might not like going but Croom makes them go, I have had alot of classes with football players and they hardly ever miss. Alot of them put a good bit of work into school, but I had a class with Dixon in July and I'm almost positive he had a 0 average. He didn't turn in a single assignment the whole semester and laughed when the teacher asked him where his homework was. It was pretty amusing.

 

[Barkman Turner Overdrive]

that you are a 17in idiot!

equivalent to an Al-Qaeda terrorist being torchured (sic) at Gitmo or something?

Let me guess, you are at the wonderful age where you are a college student and you know everything.

 

[DamnitDog]

Al-Qaeda terrorist being torchured (sic) at Gitmo or something?

you're in Al-Qaeda?

(sarcasm)</p>

 

[Todd4State]

One is their daily schedule, I had a class with Kelvin Love and he told me one time that his day was something like this:

Get up at 5.

Go work out until about 7:30
Go to class at 8
Go to another class at 9
Break
eat lunch
Go to class
Go to practice
Go to study hall
Sleep

Not to mention all of the "other" stuff that they deal with like nagging injuries.

The other problem is a lot of the players all think that they are going to go to the NFL and be the next big thing. They've been told this their entire life. They have been allowed to get away with murder in high school. So, when they take a business class, I'm sure the thought "what's the point? I'm never going to use this anyway." crosses their mind a time or two.

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

At least it was for this engineering student. What pissed me off was, I was over 18 and an adult. I was paying thousands of dollars a year to go to class. If I wanted to skip the whole semester except for tests, and passed, who should give a ****? Yet, they would call roll like it was preschool.

Not only that, but they'd send report cards to my parents....HELLLOOOO!!!! I was the one paying my way through school. Heck, when I was in Elementary, Jr. High, and High School I'd get the report card from the teacher to send home to the parents, so what's so hard about sending a report card to the student?

Maybe we need to rescind the "Anyone over 18 is NOT a kid" rule. Apparently, anyone up to the age of 25 is now a titty-sucking, diaper-soiling baby.

 

[Porkchop.sixpack]

Apparently nowadays, they only send a report card to the parents if the student consents.

And back in my day, most of my instructors didn't care if I showed up for class. Therefore, in the easy classes, I DID just show up for the tests. I always determined up front whether the teacher cared about attendance or not before I plotted that course of action, however.

As for football players in class. No, it is not like pulling teeth to get most football players to go to class. I would guess that their class attendance, as a group, is much better as freshmen than the freshman class as a whole. Now, some of that is because there are people who are keeping track whether they they go, etc. But, Croom insists they go to class. Most all of them do -- despite years of preferential treatment in their hometown schools.

 

[RebelBruiser]

I'd say that the only reason athlete class attendance is better than your average student attendance is because they have coaches making them go to class.

If we're talking football and basketball, the average football/basketball player is typically less motivated about school than your average college student. However, they are forced to be at class more often because of coaches needing to keep them eligible.

If it were solely up to the players, and they didn't have an eligibility requirement to meet, I bet that probably half of them would never show up.