Reason #1,688 to hate big-time college athletics?

[rosslynhoya]

"Earlier this month, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported that the University of Kentucky basketball team had compiled its worst GPA in eight years and the worst among the school's varsity sports during the fall semester. Included in the stark academic reality was the fact that two players finished with GPAs of 1.667 and 1.765 in their fall semester.

"And yet no one was ineligible for the spring. It doesn't sound possible, yet it's entirely aboveboard."

sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/story?columnist=oneil_dana&id=5206806

A thoughtful column by Dana O'Neil, as is often the case....

[hoyarooter]

Welcome to the world of John Calipari.

[hifigator]

Come one guys ... it's not fair to blame the players' "poorformance" in the classroom on Calipari. That's just not right. Besides, he wasn't even there! He was busy illegally recruiting next year's "student"-athletes.