Amare is a Sun Devil
Friday, July 06, 2007
Amare Stoudamire was just on the Dan Patrick show, sans Dan Patrick of course, and is apparently attending summer school at Arizona St. University in the quest for a History degree. What courses is he taking? Human Geography and Palates of course. So the typical schedule for a upper tier basketball player in college. What is Human Geography, is that like looking at a map and saying Tokyo is located in Japan. I think he should get a website and install Google Analytics, everyday I learn a new country somewhere on the globe that I've never heard of before. Lucky for him he is now two weeks through the class and it gets out just before camp starts.
I never quite got the athletes going back to school thing. College is there for you to pursue your career and livelihood, and get drunk all the time. So if you're a professional athlete and a multimillionaire you don't need to pursue a career and well you don't need to buy nattie light. Oh ya I forgot the 20 year old hot blonds that go to ASU, now it all makes sense.
For his sake lets hope that the Suns don't unintelligently deal him to the T-Wolves or the Hawks this summer so he would be forced to prematurely pull out of his Palates class. That would be a shame.
7 comments:
I understand why athletes go back to school. For most, if they get injured they're done, and they need something that will enable them to make money (money runs out faster than you think, especially when you spend it the way most famous athletes do). For Amare, he blows out his knee again and he's done. So getting a degree would be useful if he wants to have something to do the rest of his life.
Dude what are you going to do with a degree in History? Amare gonna spend the rest of his days researching the Cold War?
Maybe if you went to college, you wouldn't make so many spelling and grammatical errors.
I must be wasting my time at NYU's Business School, perhaps I should really focus my time on improving the grammar of my blog and head back to grammar school instead of the #1 rated part time program in the country.
Really no one has answered this, what the heck is Amare really going to do with a history degree?
I'm not killing him for taking classes, if that's a perogative of his go ahead all the better.
My point is from a post career standpoint, a history degree is a waste of time.
Human Geography is a high school AP course. Its about why people move where they move. Its was a tough course. Much too tough for a basketball player.