Isn’t The Admiral a little overboard with his pronouncements?
It’s one thing to have Condoleezza Rice heading up the College Basketball Commission to reform the sport when she really doesn’t know the first thing about whether what she’s recommending can work.
It’s another for former Navy All-American David Robinson, The Admiral, sitting on his high horse on the Knight Commission — which is the watch dog for college sports. Those people should know what they are talking about and be careful what they say when they open their mouths to the national media.
Robinson said that the UNC academic mess undermines college athletics and is the worst thing he’s seen since he’s been watching sports. Guess you didn’t see Lance Armstrong fool the world with the PEDs he was taking for years, or the brutal Pacers-Pistons brawl that included fans in your NBA or maybe Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds booming 70-homer seasons on steroids? Or maybe — well, you get my point, Admiral.
Easy classes at Carolina is worse than all that? C’mon Admiral, it would be silly for you to just say that. But it’s ludicrous when your own son plays basketball at Duke and is probably one of the jocks over there loading up on the infamous sociology courses and graduating with 12 fewer credits required than most other major universities.
Weren’t you at the Knight table when Kylia Carter, the mother of Duke one-and-done Wendell Carter, Jr., said her son playing college basketball was like indentured servitude and that no one at Duke gave a flip about helping him with academics while he was there.
C’mon, Admiral, you looked good sitting there in Navy blues with your spit-shined shoes and stiff upper lip. Using that lip for such drivel undermines rational thought, in my opinion. I imagine there were easy classes at the Naval Academy, and there have been scandals from drugs to cheating to abusing women midshipmen going back more than twenty years.
Admiral, you are bound by your service to your country to know what the dang you are talking about instead of using your 7-foot profile to say something about which you know nothing.
Just the facts, Joe Friday used to say. And, Admiral, you ain’t got none.
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