Whenever I see NCAA President Myles Brand, my blood boils. This two-bit bureaucrat continues to spout his assertion that NCAA athletes on a whole out-perform the general student body in the classroom. I’ve always stated that his statement is a lie, or if technically true, is the result of gender equity. Women carry the men.
When people complain about reduced emphasis on academics for “athletes,” Brand refuses to acknowledge that “student-athletes” in question are football and basketball players. As I opened up my Sunday paper, I noticed information released by a major SEC powerhouse that illustrated how Brand and the NCAA twist GPA statistics. Take a look.
Team GPA (Spring)
- Women’s track/cross country 3.367
- Women’s soccer 3.325
- Men’s soccer 3.262
- Women’s golf 3.257
- Softball 3.240
- Women’s swimming 3.235
- Women’s tennis 3.219
- Volleyball 3.087
- Rifle 3.086
- Gymnastics 3.047
- Women’s basketball 2.954
- Men’s swimming 2.951
- Men’s tennis 2.897
- Men’s golf 2.880
- Baseball 2.804
- Men’s track/cross country 2.694
- Men’s basketball 2.560
- Football 2.490
Notice anything? That the men’s basketball team is carrying almost a 2.6 GPA and the football team nearly a 2.5 GPA is commendable. Hell, I was usually happy with a 2.5. And while you can twist stats however you like, if you want to compare apples to apples – for the general student body at this university during the same spring semester – the men’s GPA was 2.75 and the women’s was 2.99.
So Myles, just once come clean and stop spinning. Your NCAA presidents are now paying head coaches $3 million a year. Assistants are making $200,000. We know they are going to take a kid who can help them win even if their main academic goal with that kid will be to keep him eligible. We can accept that. Heck, you should be bragging that the combined GPA of the 85-man football team is only .26 behind the general student body. With all the added time those guys put into spring football, give them credit for how well they are doing. The NCAA has been lying for so long about so many things, they don’t know how to stop.
It’s their Brand management.
Miles Brand died from pancreatic cancer - well that was the official version of the story.
We know God Himself reached down and choked the life from that frittering popinjay masquerading as a man.
Miles Brand never played an organized sport his entire life. Well, he did manage to carry the ball sacks of the heavyweight wrestlers at his high school. But that’s only because he lost a bet. However, after finding he enjoyed the experience, he continued to volunteer as a sack-carrier, even though it placed him between the knobby knees of the wrestlers. He was forced to cease and desist under orders of the Jesuit priests, who preferred to reserve that delicate task for themselves.
Miles Brand rose to power as a pipsqueak. A mouth-piece for liberal sh*t-eating administrators.
Miles Brand appointed himself head nazi of the sporting world.
May his bones be dug up and scavenged by un-earthly creatures.
His image will be one spat upon and pissed on by all Good Sporting Humans - Especially those former NCAA athletes whose images he stole to sell to corporations in order to fill his filthy mother-f*cking pockets.
Comment by Delphinias — September 24, 2009 @ 3:33 am
Pretty sick stuff.
Comment by ConspiracySam — September 24, 2009 @ 8:23 am
“Sick?”
Just a humble horse’s opinion.
Are you looking for Kind Words simply because he’s dead?
Well, in that vein, despicable as they were, Hitler was a snazzy dresser, and Mussolini sure gave a rousing speech.
And yet, they still roast in the toasty fires of hell….wait. If Dante was correct, they’re still making their way down towards those warm reflections of their personal choices.
Comment by Delphinias — October 3, 2009 @ 3:01 pm