I confess, in my several months of confinement in medical facilities and at home, I’ve become a hopeless news junkie. The current scandal is about sketchy courses for athletes at the University of North Carolina. The so-called “paper classes” did not require attendance and had no professors – students just got a good grade. When at Syracuse University, I was required to take one science class, so I signed up for Physics 101. Upon entering the huge lecture hall, I saw a lot of really big guys. The course material was below high school level. The students called it “football physics.” I did my work and got an A.
What made me think about my connection to this breaking news was an old SU t-shirt. I bought it from the college catalog in the early 1980’s, crammed into the back of a drawer, as I became too fat to wear it. It fits great now because I’ve lost 80 pounds. I’m thinking that UNC is not the only college padding their teams.
Good Morning Gloucester 
Fred, you look great
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Wow Fred that’s a drop for sure but you do look like on the rebound…I love the insight and humor even when facing the difficult times Warrior Spirit for sure and actually humor is good for you!…I have to admit it was a great story I relate to and during my active days we had very strict weight standards and they would put you on the weight program for being five pounds over your max mine was 179 pounds. Boy did I love retirement from military weight standards, but once they let you out in the pasture you tend to want to graze some for lost time, more so for all the restrictions and put on weight (Freedom)…Then reality set’s in and have to be careful when you realize you can gain a pound just looking at a hamburger…Then you have people like my younger brother who could order everything at McDonalds drive up and when pull up to pay the lady or guy is looking for the other’s in vehicle…only me and him but I did clarify who most of it was for Him! 🙂
The key is find where you are most happy and feel good and stay there after all you bought and paid for it…
God Bless and thank you “Keep on trucking forward.” 🙂 Dave & Kim 🙂
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My college physics class was well below high school level. We spent the first few weeks learning how to multiply by a negative number and fractions, as well as the advanced exponents. Sadly working in an office on campus, I met students who could not even read a schedule to sign up for an appointment – one particular young man missed the general orientation because he was in practice. This was so sad from me. Most of the guys on the football team in the high school I attended were honor roll students who actually got academic scholarships to places like Brown and Yale. I had never really known a dumb jock before I got to college
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