[jacket3ree]

(In my best Dean Wormer voice] OK, smart guy, how many baskets have you ever woven while underwater? Honestly doesn't sound that easy.

Anything can be hard or easy, depending on how it's taught. Physical education was compulsory for me in junior high, but not high school, but for my undergraduate degree. Junior high PE is so far in the rear view mirror that all I remember was playing "Air Force" football where there were no limits on the number of forward passes during a play, running a sub-five-minute mile while the girls laughed at my legs, and the pedo-creep gym teacher that insisted on watching us shower. As an undergraduate I got easy As in Aerobics (mile time had crept a little bit over five minutes but still good enough that the track coach who taught the class said something positive) and Drownproofing, which was derived from Navy Seal training and had to be passed to graduate. I got a hard-fought "B" in the sport science/fitness class my first freshman quarter. Classroom tests plus fitness tests. It boiled down to the final, like most class grades do, which was a decathlon of sorts but limited to what they could do inside the Student Athletic Center. I pumped out 59 sit-ups in a minute, which was below the 60 I needed for an "A" in the class after all was said and done. So, I got a "B". (Today I'm not sure I could sit up 60 times in a day.)

I even took Ceramic Engineering 1001 to flesh out my spring senior quarter when I basically majored in trips to Hilton Head.  Dammit. I thought we would be making mugs or something and we had to figure out space shuttle tile chemistry. Lesson for you kids: pad your graduating quarter schedule so that you can drop something if needed.

In all seriousness, they should offer majors in football, basketball, whatever. Just cut right to it. Pritchard said he got his PhD at the Commanders. It will never happen, but they could make a rigorous course that sets players up to be in the NFL or coach later with a good financial head on their shoulders, able to communicate, and ready for what comes after football. That's stupid, what would anyone do with a football major if they flame out of football?  Same can be said for dozens of majors at any university.

[jacket3ree]

(In my best Dean Wormer voice] OK, smart guy, how many baskets have you ever woven while underwater? Honestly doesn't sound that easy.

Anything can be hard or easy, depending on how it's taught. Physical education was compulsory for me in junior high, but not high school, but for my undergraduate degree. Junior high PE is so far in the rear view mirror that all I remember was playing "Air Force" football where there were no limits on the number of forward passes during a play, running a sub-five-minute mile while the girls laughed at my legs, and the pedo-creep gym teacher that insisted on watching us shower. As an undergraduate I got easy As in Aerobics (mile time had crept a little bit over five minutes but still good enough that the track coach who taught the class said something positive) and Drownproofing, which was derived from Navy Seal training and had to be passed to graduate. I got a hard-fought "B" in the sport science/fitness class my first freshman quarter. Classroom tests plus fitness tests. It boiled down to the final, like most class grades do, which was a decathlon of sorts but limited to what they could do inside the Student Athletic Center. I pumped out 59 sit-ups in a minute, which was below the 60 I needed for an "A" in the class after all was said and done. So, I got a "B". (Today I'm not sure I could sit up 60 times in a day.)

I even took Ceramic Engineering 1001 to flesh out my spring senior quarter when I basically majored in trips to Hilton Head.  Dammit. I thought we would be making mugs or something and we had to figure out space shuttle tile chemistry. Lesson for you kids: pad your graduating quarter schedule so that you can drop something if needed.

In all seriousness, they should offer majors in football, basketball, whatever. Just cut right to it. Pritchard said he got his PhD at the Commanders. It will never happen, but they could make a rigorous course that sets players up to be in the NFL or coach later with a good financial head on their shoulders, able to communicate, and ready for what comes after football. That's stupid, what would anyone do with a football major if they flame out of football?  Same can be said for dozens of majors at any university.