| 13and3 |
03-27-2014 09:56 AM |
Ok, for all you haters out there, I am a hater too and that is how I know what you are truly feeling inside. Here is a little insight on why I am for these players getting coin. It is a purely egotistical and selfish reason, not unlike a lot of you who want the opposite.
Some years ago I while I was attending UMKC school of engineering, a pretty hot girl would sit beside me in English class and we would chat. I would attend school all day 8am to 9pm Tues and Thurs and then have to go to work Mon, Wed, Sat, and Sun, to support myself. Just so happened we got paired up on some lame as research paper. The only day I had free was Friday so I told her we need to get together that day to make this thing happen. She told me it was no way for her to make it to the library because she just had to attend Mike Washington's party. Who in the **** is Mike Washington, I asked her. " You don't know who Mike Washington is? She replied." come to find out and for those who don't remember he was the star basketball player for the Roos. Needless to say I did the paper myself and she got the credit.
I had to work to support myself through school, Mike Washington had a scholarship, and all the girls because he could dribble a damn basketball. Now a days I have a degree in engineering, have my own company, married and make more than a 100 grand a year.
I look back and realize now, growing up in the hood I was around lots of Mike Washingtons in my childhood. From my perspective They hung out way to much on the basketball court. They lost lots of valuable time studying, doing chores, or cutting grass and finding some way of earning some money. Most have ended up in either in jail, dead or still on those street corners and playgrounds. What I have now is better than what he had then, and I can live with that. So while they get all the attention, free school, and girls. Most aren't smart enough to make it count later in life. I am going to do my own thing and let them do theirs. Im not going to hate on some dumb college athlete because he can get paid now, that's way to petty for me. In the end I am living the good life, a job that offers the satisfaction of actually producing something the world needs, a family I love, a nice house in a good neighborhood, and a decent ride. In the end I could care less if the student athlete got paid or not, It just bothers me that people hold the basketball player rapper types in such high regard that them having a little money in their pocket makes them feel less secure, so they come up with lots of lame paper thin reasons why they should be happy with what the school gives them. What they are really saying he has more than what I had in school and I cant stand the idea of him having more. If that is the case you are still in competition with the Mike Washingtons of the world. Im my opinion **** him, **** Wiggins, **** Beasly, **** Embiid, and who ever the next major recruit is. It makes no difference, I still have to get up and go to work in the morning, and cut the grass on Sundays before the Chiefs Game. Why do we even care what some 18 year old kid does with a Basketball, he doesn't even know you exist, just as I am sure Mike Washington didn't miss me at his party. All I am asking is quit spouting out all this bullshit and own your own truth, and to all you English majors out there who are going to piss on my grammatical skills with regard to this post **** you too.
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College athletes on their way to a union.
(https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=282594)