Athletes and trouble

What seems to be the problem with these guys?

If you ask me it starts in highschool with teachers showing athletes preferential treatment

What are your thoughts?

 

They just need more respect and adoration, that's all.

Oh, and more money. Definitely give them more money.

 

They's dumb lulz.

 

You are funny

Pac Man Jones was assigned a personal bodyguard to keep him out of trouble

What does he do?

He beats up the body guard in a hotel bathroom

 

thats legendary...

 

Yes... not just teachers but parents, coaches, classmates... largely well meaning people seeking to encourage and in reality they inflate egos... do favors for... like ensuring that a bad exam score doesn't make a transcript... holding them up as something to be universally adored. They too often wind up getting not only a sense of entitlement but also an attitude that they are above the law and can play by different rules from everyone else.

Human character usually NEEDS to be thoroughly tested in order to properly mature... going through periods where the next meal is not assured, the roof over ones head is no guarantee- as well the general sense should be reinforced that one is not above other folks- but the ego stroking that star athletes get too often destroys who they are.... they get the sense that they are better than everyone else. Anyone making it to the pros likely grew up in a charmed environment with authority figures continually pumping their heads full of how special they are.

Frankly, it's more surprising to me that more pro athletes don't self destruct.

 

Yes

Most teams have a hotline for these rich people to get free rides home if they go out and get drunk

These people can afford a cab or limo too

Still there are a dozen or more players with a dui each year

That should constitute a higher crime in my opinion

Stinkfoot I think in a less literal sense many of them do self destruct

 

you think the ratio of athletes in trouble is greater than that of the rest of society? I bet it closely mirrors that of the rest of society. Of course they get all the media coverage when they blow it.

 

LOL,I agree,heck they should be paid billions for playing a childs game.A few hundred million is not enough!

 

show business, baby!!! pays better than anything else.

 

I know,but the extremes are so much now.I remember when Pete Rose did commercials for Aqua Velva in the mid 1970s and got paid a few thousand dollars.These days Nike pays someone like Lebron James 100 Million dollars etc. etc.--They used to make epic great movies for a fraction of what a Tom Cruises salary is nowadays.--Not to mention most contemporary movies are junk,but thats a different topic.

 

whatya gonna do??? supply and demand. what gets me is rookies making the money they do. They have not even practiced for the team yet.

 

I was never an athlete, but I had lots of trouble.

 

Yeah whatever, maybe in some highschool's in Texas but you're on air right now.

 

Texas is a football state

I went to a basketball school where the highschool all-star had a brain of mush

He sat behind me in some classes saying things like, "Gravity? That shit is boo boo"

He graduated with a 3.0

I do not think he could count that high without a scoreboard

 

i never saw athletes getting preferential treatment in high school. i'm sure it happens to some extent, but i think more of it is the unathletic people who are jealous of the athletes trying to make up another reason to complain about the jocks.

a 3.0 in high school is pretty crappy. all you need to do is show up for class and turn in a majority of the assignments and you're guaranteed at least a 3.0.

i think a bigger problem for these pro athletes in question is the fact that so many of them had a ghetto upbringing, rather than treatment in school.

 

A 3.0 is a B average

Not what most would call crappy

Almost all of these pro athletes played in college

All colleges have academic standards that can not be met by many athletes legitimately

I played every sport but basketball through school and never asked for a favor

Was your school a big time sports school?

That is where I see this happening is 5a schools

Schools that play in much smaller less important divisions probably do not place the same importance on their athletes I agree

 

i got some preferential treatment in high school - i mean, the AD knew we smoked up before and after some of our soccer games - usually after, but on some occasions before we got on the bus.

at college...no real preferential treatment outside of being able to miss formations and what not like that - nothing academic

athletes just get thrown out in front of everybody more so than others do. wouldn't say we cause more or less trouble than any other group

 

When you are provided free private transportation in the event of being drunk

Then crash your own car while drunk

I think it is a clear statement that you feel you will not be held accountable to the extent that others are

I will say that I do not think a higher percentage of athletes get in trouble

I do think the ones who do seem to almost try to do so

 

they just have a bigger ego.