My college has “Pride”. What kind of pride? It’s hard to discern from the picture.
The story on the inside announces the reason for this prideness – 4 basketball players are actually going to graduate this year! Now that is something pretty unusual, wouldn’t you agree?
I do agree. And don’t let anybody tell you those communications degrees aren’t worth anything.
For a time, my next door neighbor in the dorm was a basketball player. He was right at the upper limit of age for college eligibility – had a wife or girlfriend and a child. He literally could not even write his name. The coaches tried to help him out by giving him teacher’s editions of the textbooks with all the answers. Not being stupid, he sold them. There was a bit of tension between the professors who wanted to actually run a school and the alumni who wanted winning sports teams. About 1/6th of the students were on sports scholarships. Few of them made it to graduation.