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“Few people with a passion for college sports can handle the truth about college football and basketball.”

What? You mean they can’t handle the way American universities – the University of Kansas, in this case – become trampy little soap operas when recruitment season rolls around? Because they’re so so desperate to recruit one-year non-students who can throw balls that the schools’ anxieties over recruitment paralyze the campus?

The Henry guys, the two guys KU wants so bad it hurts, drive a Hummer and a Range Rover and live in opulence and really REALLY don’t want to go to class. They’d go pro and get rich right now if they could. KU means shit to them. But KU LOVES them. It’s just as excited as Alabama was when Coach Saban said Yes!! Yes, I’ll take six million dollars to coach your team! YES! We got Coach Saban!!!!

But will KU get the Henry guys? Today it looks pretty good, but yesterday… Man, yesterday I thought their father was saying something that sounded kinda negative… I can’t eat, I can’t sleep, thinking about it …

The kids don’t want to be there. It doesn’t matter how pretty the campus is or how historic the arena or how good the team’s chance is at winning the national title.

For the participants, college hoops lost its cool points.

Pushing a Maybach, sporting the most dazzling ice and making it rain inside America’s top strip clubs long ago replaced hitting on the finest girls from Delta Sigma Theta and Xi Omega during psychology class.

You can grind your teeth and reminisce about how much better things used to be, but you’re not going to make kids (or their parents) buy into the current system. It’s a farce…

Shaddap. I LOVE these guys. Everything’s going to be GREAT. Go KU!

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UD thanks Dave for telling her about the events at KU.

Margaret Soltan, July 2, 2009 7:54PM
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One Response to ““Few people with a passion for college sports can handle the truth about college football and basketball.””

  1. theprofessor Says:

    "Carl then told KCSP on Tuesday that Xavier had begun to reconsider Kentucky a couple of weeks ago."

    I’ll bet. Calipari, here he comes.

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