It’s the off-season for football and basketball, so what more relevant time to bring up one of my pet peeves about them? Muttroxia, it’s always topical!
It’s not about the sports themselves, it’s about the sports broadcasting. Players are introduced with their name, position, and their college. Their college? Who cares!? If they are a rookie I suppose it’s relevant. But there ought to be a statute of limitations after five years or so. It just doesn’t flippin’ matter. C’mon, maybe once it mattered that Shaq went to LSU, but that was 15 years ago! Does that somehow mark him for life so that he always needs to be identified that way? It’s worse when they add in the majors. I appreciate that the NCAA still vainly tries to pretend it’s actually promoting academics, but the networks shouldn’t play along with this obvious lie. I don’t need to know that the linebacker majored in criminal justice. Unless he can somehow apply this on the field, shut up about it.
Can you imagine the equivalent in the business world? Imagine business cards like:
Edward Rothman
Chemical Engineer
University of Virgina
a respectable 3.2 GPA
Sounds pretty stupid, right? What’s the difference!?
Especially irrelevant when the player skipped college altogther, like Kevin Garnett. “And at 6’10”, from Lincoln High School,…”