Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Student Athletes

Whatever else you say, Duke has student athletes in the old style. They graduate, they take real classes, and live right there with all the other students. No separate lives.

A nice NYTimes article, recognizing this.

2 comments:

noahpoah said...

But! But! They ruined the David vs. Slightly-Larger-David narrative!

Butler plays their home games in the arena where they filmed Hoosiers!

And the Butler players went to class yesterday!

Anonymous said...

dude! The butler players went to class because they could ride their BIKES to the arena.