February 19th, 2015
I’m a Denver
Broncos fan. That’s why I skipped watching this
latest Super Bowl. For those of us in Colorado it was like watching a western
movie in which both sides wore the black hats. However, I did see an article on
Huffington Post before the game that vastly
improved my opinion of the often-controversial Richard Sherman, the Seattle
Seahawks’ star cornerback.
That article contained long quotes
from a press conference where Sherman and one of his teammates made the case
that NCAA athletes should get paid. What’s most useful about the following
quote from Sherman is how it shows things from the student’s point of view:
“I would love for a regular student
to have a student-athlete's schedule during the season for just one quarter or
one semester and show me how you’ll balance that,” Sherman said. “Show me how
you would schedule your classes when you can't schedule classes from 2 to 6
o'clock on any given day. Show me how you're going to get all your work done
when, after you get out at 7:30 or so, you've got a test the next day, you're
dead tired from practice and you still have to study just as hard as everybody
else every day and get all the same work done.”
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