11-08-2021, 07:21 AM
Why do we have to keep calling them "Student-athletes"?
How about something novel? How about football players, how about gymnasts, how about rowers?
Or just call them "Students."
And OF, we are too soft. Oh gee, maybe the poor "Student athlete" had his feelings hurt. Maybe he was "body shamed" or made to feel that he was a dumbass in front of his "Peers." Maybe Lake should have taken him by the hand and whispered in his ear and then written him a Hallmark card with butterflies and unicorns on the front.
I can imagine the poor student-athlete writing home (sorry, nobody writes anymore, so let's say he texts) and dripping tears (how do you do that in a text?) on the paper.
I think about Mutt Mantle driving to his son's minor league hotel room and packing his cardboard suitcase and Mickey saying, "What are you doing?" Mutt: "I thought I raised a man."
How about something novel? How about football players, how about gymnasts, how about rowers?
Or just call them "Students."
And OF, we are too soft. Oh gee, maybe the poor "Student athlete" had his feelings hurt. Maybe he was "body shamed" or made to feel that he was a dumbass in front of his "Peers." Maybe Lake should have taken him by the hand and whispered in his ear and then written him a Hallmark card with butterflies and unicorns on the front.
I can imagine the poor student-athlete writing home (sorry, nobody writes anymore, so let's say he texts) and dripping tears (how do you do that in a text?) on the paper.
I think about Mutt Mantle driving to his son's minor league hotel room and packing his cardboard suitcase and Mickey saying, "What are you doing?" Mutt: "I thought I raised a man."