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Yeah, so everyone’s beating up on Cardale Jones for…

telling the truth. In a student-athlete variation on the Kinsley Gaffe (“A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth – some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.”), Jones, an Ohio State football player, tweeted:

Why should we have to go to class if we came here to play FOOTBALL, we ain’t come to play SCHOOL classes are POINTLESS.

Cardale Jones is my hero. He alone speaks the truth through the bullshit of APR scores, and Sociology and Sports Management departments bursting with jockshop courses, and sweet kindly academic counselor ladies who take the boys by the arm and lead them to the courses the ladies will take for them. It’s degrading – to the school, the players, to other students, to everybody. Cardale breaks through the lies and asks an admirably rational question: Why are you making me play school?

It’s why, if you’ve read this blog any length of time, you know that I refer to sports factory personnel as Blanche DuBoises. It’s their job to live in a gaudy gauzy unreality… To lie and lie and lie and even try to believe it all…

When someone firmly based in the reality principle – like Cardale here – comes along, all the Blanches, with a sharp scandalized intake of breath, say Ah declare ah’ve never heard such manner of thing… Lord, lord, lord have mercy…

UD says: Let the Blanches blanch. We know what’s right.

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UD thanks Doug.

Margaret Soltan, October 5, 2012 6:01PM
Posted in: sport

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2 Responses to “Yeah, so everyone’s beating up on Cardale Jones for…”

  1. Jack/OH Says:

    Yeah, Cardale’s tweet brought to mind a student letter in a local campus newspaper that more or less argued that since the purpose of college was to obtain a degree, what real objection could there be to a research paper that was bought outright, or made up of unattributed quotes from Wikipedia and other sources?

    I know two Enablers (the Blanche DuBoises) personally. They’re able, well-intended people, but they do seem to be in an awkward position with respect to the faculty and sports people (who, locally, have a fairly clean reputation).

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