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<blockquote data-quote="spartansstink" data-source="post: 131291706" data-attributes="member: 1488840">Darth, agree with you 100%. However, the view you and I share could be construed by others as being &quot;racist&quot;.The problem is, they are being held to the same standards. The bar has just been significantly lowered. Now, every school has that major or majors that anyone with half a brain can pass. At WVU, that is athletic coaching education whereby students must grapple with such quandaries as being able to answer how long a football field is, how many points is a touchdown worth, and, for the final, how to construct a game that involves a large parachute. At other schools, it may be Travel Industry Management or some such.The schools have to do this. This just doesn't apply to athletes. Kids today can't form a basic sentence that is grammatically correct. You can forget about constructing a paragraph. All they know how to do is copy and paste other people's pre-thought thoughts. They lack imagination and initiative.Raising the bar for everyone would negate college football as we know it. Heck, it would negate the number of colleges as we know it. They'd likely go out of business for lack of supply.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="spartansstink, post: 131291706, member: 1488840"] Darth, agree with you 100%. However, the view you and I share could be construed by others as being "racist". The problem is, they [U]are[/U] being held to the same standards. The bar has just been significantly lowered. Now, every school has that major or majors that anyone with half a brain can pass. At WVU, that is athletic coaching education whereby students must grapple with such quandaries as being able to answer how long a football field is, how many points is a touchdown worth, and, for the final, how to construct a game that involves a large parachute. At other schools, it may be Travel Industry Management or some such. The schools have to do this. This just doesn't apply to athletes. Kids today can't form a basic sentence that is grammatically correct. You can forget about constructing a paragraph. All they know how to do is copy and paste other people's pre-thought thoughts. They lack imagination and initiative. Raising the bar for everyone would negate college football as we know it. Heck, it would negate the number of colleges as we know it. They'd likely go out of business for lack of supply. [/QUOTE]

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