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Thursday, March 29, 2007

From the AOL Sports Blog

"If you're a college student, and you're going anywhere other than Lynn University in Florida, then you're in the wrong place.

[S]tudents are spending the weekend at the Final Four, going to all three Final Four games, going to a Georgia Tech baseball game, a Thrashers hockey game over the course of six days ... and they're getting three hours of college credit for it.

... It's part of a class called "The Final Four Experience," which is supposed to teach students about what all goes in to putting on a massive sporting event.

And what makes it worse is the "oh, but it's not all fun and games" paragraph in the article, that's designed to make this seem like it's not just an obscenely fun thing for these kids to do, but an example of educational perseverance.


'Though it may sound like a sports fan's dream, the students will be required to put in some work. They'll take a couple exams, keep a diary and will hold a presentation after the trip.'




Ooooh, a presentation. Here, kids, let me help you out with that report. Feel free to use this verbatim. "Here are some Power Point slides of me doing blow with a half-dozen nude Ohio State cheerleaders. Oh, and I don't care if I fail this class, because I just went to three Final Four games for $3,250, while some people are paying $12,000 per ticket, under the pretense that this is somehow educational. I plan on repeating this class next year, anyway. Go ahead. Fail me. Really."

"The Final Four Experience." Please. What else does Lynn University offer? Can I get the university to send me to The Bahamas and supply me with rum for a week, and get three credit hours for the "Effects of Alcohol and Sun Experience"? Can I get three credit hours for the university to set me up with a high-priced hooker and call it "The Human Reproductive Experience"?"