Auburn graduate and former player admits he can't read

Someone tweet him and ask if he can read now.

Not only that he played in the 70s

Use to wreck shop with this guy On techmo super bowl. And they had David fulcher on d wow he was a beast.

Wonder why Reid and Kap aren't sharing the wealth and starting a training program to help past millionaire athletes regain their dignity.

An article from 1999? Bro you’re not even in the right century

Yeah Auburns not exactly alone in this.

NY Times article in the 80's said a Florida player had a semester courseload of:

1) The theory of Golf
2) Golf Technique
3) Location of Florida's golf courses
4) Listen to an hour-long tape on Arnold Palmer's golf tips.

That was it.

A professor at UGA spoke out against the practice of just passing athletes and she was fired by UGA.

"The athletes were just plantation slaves, just given grades to earn money for the plantation. When the athlete's service to the plantation was over, no one cared if he'd made progress." - Dr. Kemp, University of Georgia.

I doubt a whole lot has changed...I'm sure some has...but there are still Dexter Manley's out there...starting in H.S. - letting them graduate without being able to read and then go to college.

2014 Article:

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Early in her career as a learning specialist, Mary Willingham was in her office when a basketball player at the University of North Carolina walked in looking for help with his classwork.

He couldn't read or write.

"And I kind of panicked. What do you do with that?" she said, recalling the meeting.

But she was shocked that one couldn't read. And then she found he was not an anomaly.

Soon, she'd meet a student-athlete who couldn't read multisyllabic words. She had to teach him to sound out Wis-con-sin, as kids do in elementary school.

And then another came with this request: "If I could teach him to read well enough so he could read about himself in the news, because that was something really important to him," Willingham said.

She found that 60% read between fourth- and eighth-grade levels. Between 8% and 10% read below a third-grade level.

"So what are the classes they are going to take to get a degree here? You cannot come here with a third-, fourth- or fifth-grade education and get a degree here," she told CNN.

They're pushing them through," said Billy Hawkins, an associate professor and athlete mentor at the University of Georgia.

"They're graduating them. UGA is graduating No. 2 in the SEC, so they're able to graduate athletes, but have they learned anything? Are they productive citizens now? That's a thing I worry about. To get a degree is one thing, to be functional with that degree is totally different."

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So what are the classes they are going to take to get a degree here? You cannot come here with a third-, fourth- or fifth-grade education and get a degree here," she told CNN. 

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Joke was on her, I guess.

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An article from 1999? Bro you’re not even in the right century

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Not even the right millennium