Y’all remember
being in the seventh grade? It wasn’t that long ago for
us here at PTB…we remember it like it was yesterday. After all, seventh grade was three of the best years we ever had. But that’s a
crux of a different biscuit…
Seventh grade was the time in our life when
girls stopped having cooties, our music tastes changed from
kiddy pop to
rock & roll and we started counting the days ‘til we were gonna get our driver’s license (1,460). Ah, the joys of youth. Now, the NCAA wants to really screw things up.
Famous for giving birth to the
BCS, the “
student”-athlete and
Dick Vitale, the NCAA has squirted one out of their pooty hole that surprised even us. Last week the NCAA
voted to allow college basketball coaches to recruit kids as early as seventh grade. Aye Caramba! All through high school, jocks got preferential treatment from teachers, administrators and, of course, the
PoPo. Now, this ruling bestows
BMOC status on kids who are barely out of their
Underoos.
WTF would a seventh grader know about which college to go to? Nothing.
This is just another example of how the culture of the athletic circle jerk is ruining the USo’A. Don’t believe us? Most people couldn’t name you one single
Supreme Court Justice, the
capital of Djibouti or even the
biggest planet in the solar system…but almost everyone knows who
won the last Super Bowl, or who
Michael Jordan is, or that
every baseball player in the 1990’s was juicin’. That’s our biggest problem…we put all our time, money and effort into kids playing sports that we ignore the fact that they need to learn readin’, writin’, and ‘rithmetic. What’s worse, is that if you’re a jock-strap, you’ve got little chance of playing beyond high school and an infinitesimal chance of playing beyond college. Meanwhile, the future doctors, lawyers and scientists of America are getting their funding cut and their needs ignored. This is the kind of crap that’s gonna bite us all in the ass one day. Luckily,
most of us will be sitting on ours…watching sports on T.V.
(8.-)
