Ralphy wrote:
Yes that attitude is no so uncommon when you compete for a large state school. It's not like it's any harder for the kid that's not doing athletics. Fact of the matter is academics at a state school are pretty slack when it comes to final grades (ie they basically hand out As) unless you're in a pre-med or engineering track. As I used to say in HS, "What's my GPA? It's 15:07, BICH!"
I've been a student-athlete at a large State school that put way more emphasis on its sports than on its academics, and I gotta say you're wrong, well sort of. At this school athletes were taken care of very well, but that didn't necessarily mean they automatically got A's. There were classes for the types of students who's only desire was to play sports and get a piece of paper saying they had a degree in something, but it wasn't like all athletes were like that. I had teammates who took online classes where they would just wait until the end of the semester and put in two 10 hour days and get their A for a 3 credit class, and I had teammates who did a legitimate degree in 3.5 years and finished their masters by the end of year 5. I've said this before on here, and I'll say it again: one's education in college is largely up to them. Obviously some schools are better than others, but for probably 90% of college students in America, their own effort and initiative plays a bigger role than the particular school they go to. If you want to take 12 credits a semester and major in Communications you can. If you want to take 17 credits a semester and dual major in math and physics and get involved with a prof's research, you can do that too.
As far as the guy who made an ass of himself on facebook, whatever. Either he really is a genius (unlikely), or he just announced to everyone he's a lazy piece of crap who doesn't care about his education.