Foolish Thinkin' (Why the B1G's freshmen ineligibility proposal is discriminatory to say the least)

"We have completely lost our minds playboy!"

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the 18th century German writer and statesman, once said, “Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.” Richard Cecil, the 18th and 19th century Evangelical Anglican clergyman, gave it to us like this, “The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.” Then Nikola Tesla, the well-known inventor, shut the joint down with, “It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.”

However playas…sometimes a boy can open up new and greater prospects that don’t make an ounce of sense either. The Big Ten has lost its freakin’ mind as they are seekin’ feedback from its members on the possibility of makin’ freshmen athletes ineligible for competition as they adjust to college life. Whatttttt!!!????

These duns are circulatin’ a document titled “A Year of Readiness” that is explorin’ makin’ freshmen football and basketball players ineligible to compete so that they would have a better chance of graduating.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! First of all, the Big Ten just became relevant again in football a month ago playboy. Now they want to shoot themselves in the foot by tellin’ boyz that if they come to play in their conference they can’t play right away? That’s extremely intelligent bruh! Now the few Top 150 studs that were even remotely thinkin’ about goin’ to places like Ohio State and Michigan, now that Jim Harbaugh is drivin’ the bus, just got off on Crenshaw and Slauson or 5^th and Colfax or whatever hood you’re from. They definitely aren’t gettin’ off in Big Ten Country.

If every conference in the country doesn’t do the same they just gave themselves a death sentence. Why? Because EVERY kid that’s a top recruit thinks that he’s good enough to play his freshmen year. Whether they’re good enough or not is irrelevant. He’s not gonna voluntarily go somewhere that he knows 100 percent he’s not gonna play as a freshman. Therefore, the Big Ten will have committed suicide!

Even if the rest of the country does adopt this foolishness it won’t ensure that a boy will graduate. Cats that have every intention of graduating are graduating now bruh! The same duns that aren’t graduating now still won’t graduate. Stop lyin’ to folks! This is about bread not boyz finishin’ school. Most freshmen football players aren’t playin’ now! That’s what they call a red shirt pimpin'! Who’s comin’ up with this stuff? And that’s the edited version!

From a basketball standpoint, even if the whole country adopts it, which they won’t, it’s even more ignorant! By tellin’ boyz that they can’t play, you've just forced all of the potential “One and Done” cats out of the ride and into a minivan headed to the airport to Europe for a year. Very few of the McDonald’s All-Americans would even go to college! Why? Because you just told them that they’ve got to go to college for essentially two years instead of one. They can’t play their freshmen year and now they’ve got to come back to prove that they are what we thought they were two years ago so that they can get drafted.

Sure, they only make up less than 1 percent of the college basketball players in America but they make up the vast majority of the TV revenue that drives the sport playa. Again, who’s the genius that's comin’ up with this foolishness?

Let me put it where the goats can get it. Not everybody goin’ to college is tryin’ to obtain a degree. Not everybody wants to go to college. Not everybody needs to go to college. I’ve only got a college degree because I didn’t possess the DNA to make millions of dollars when I was 18 to 22 years old.

If you’ve got the ability to play as a freshman then you should be able to. There are tons of kids that play as freshmen that still end up graduating. To rope everybody into the same category is asinine.

You sound stupid even suggestin’ that this is about academics! College athletics in my Bill Russell voice “Has been and will always be about bread!” The money generated from the athletic department funds the freakin’ research that the playa hatin’ science professor is doin’. The same dun in the math department that hates Urban Myer is enoyin’ the brand new lounge and computer labs bought by the money the football team generated in ticket sales, merchandising, TV contracts and booster donations while in route to winnin’ a national championship. And now the joint has exploded with alumni donations to fund the freakin’ music arts department, the journalism school and even the sociology department. Stop it bruh it's about the bread!

And please don't let the smooth hustla get by you! Why is it that the they only chose football and basketball? The sucka intellectually will only recognize that they chose the two largest revenue producin' sports on campus. However, the gangsta from an intellectual standpoint will recognize that they chose the two sports that have the largest percentage of black athletes. Nobody ever trips when kids that play sports that are predominately white go pro at 14 or 15 years old. For example, tennis, gymnastics or golf. However, when these black kids leave school early to sign million dollar contracts it's a problem. If you're goin' to rule freshmen ineligible then why not all freshman athletes?

It's no different than the federal drug laws playboy. A boy can get 20 years in prison for an gram of crack but darn near probation for the same amount of powder cocaine. Who's doin' crack and who's doin' the powder playa? How are you gonna tell a boy on the football or basketball team that he can't play but the duns on the soccer, rowing, wrestling, tennis or the LaCrosse teams can play? What makes them better or more deservin' to participate than the cat on the football or basketball teams? Don't let these boyz run game on you all of your life pimpin'! 

And who in their cotton pickin’ mind says that everybody has to have a college degree. If everybody focused on gettin’ a degree we wouldn’t have plumbers, electricians, welders, carpenters, mechanics, general contractors, construction workers etc. The last I checked playboy they can make as much if not more money than a dun with a college degree.

I know plenty of boyz with degrees livin’ pay check to pay check with bad credit. So don’t sell me the foolishness that everybody needs to stay in school to get a degree to become successful. And who is the Big Ten tryin' to fool? They don't care if a boy graduates or not! As long as the bread is green they're spendin' it. If a kid has the ability to play as a freshman then he should be given the right to compete. 

Here's some fool hollerin' from the top of his lungs, "Up to 1972 freshman nationwide were ineligible! So this is possible." Here's the problem playboy, this ain't up to 1972! College football and basketball weren't billion dollar industries. Let me tell you what the old gangstas taught me growin' up in the G! "Once you shoot the gun you can't get the bullets back!"

This is a prime example of some cat sittin’ in the Big Ten office with nothin’ to do. So he comes up with some foolishness that nobody in the office has guts enough to tell him that it’s stupid! Stop me when I start lyin’!

Playas Thesaurus:
1) Dun: noun – the person in question, dude, guy, etc.
2) And that’s the edited version – I’m tryin’ not to curse these boyz out up in this piece.
3) Let me put it where the goats can get it.: I’m goin’ to break it down for you. I’ll put it on the ground for you so that there isn’t any confusion. Remember playa, goats eat off of the ground. I’m makin’ it as clear as Vodka.
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