re: Myron Rolle

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You're right, except for the fact that he graduated in 5 semesters.

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With the way public universities allow AP credit to transfer into college, basically any regular student in the Ivy League could do the same thing, especially with all the summer courses that Rolle took at FSU.

This is still very impressive because Rolle managed to juggle everything with his football activities and his volunteer work in the Caribbean. He is basically a top 50-60 national player in college football and a good enough student to get into most Ivy League schools without affirmative action or athletics.

This can probably be said of less than 10 elite athletes in the past two decades (Battier, Pennington, and Knight probably being three of them). However, the media has exaggerated what Rolle has done, especially the ESPN anchors who pretend that they are mentally retarded by comparison.

You might be right, but I don't understand their reasoning. It's not as if FSU can boycott ESPN. More importantly, having a very bright guy on the football team doesn't change the fact that they cheated to keep many other players eligible.

What was Mr. Rolle's undergraduate education in? Though Florida State has a less than stellar reputation, there are some departments there that could certainly compete with the Ivies. Perhaps his choice of university is indicative of a specific departmental superiority rather than outright reputation?

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'exercise sciences'

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He aims to be a doctor, correct? That degree sounds like it entails the course work of a physical education instructor. And he got a Rhodes scholarship for that?

I once had a professor at Oxford (visiting professor at my undergraduate institution) who looked like Jack Nicholson when he played the Joker from one of the Batman movies. She was a quite stupid Wittgenstein...ian.

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Looks pretty difficult but I'm a management major so I don't know shite

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Right, he majored in exercise science and also completed the pre-med requirements.

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Hardly the antecedent for a Rhodes scholar. Does he speak any other languages? He resume apparently hinges on playing Division I football.

SC had a basketball player that won one last year. He was terrible though.

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He aims to be a doctor, correct? That degree sounds like it entails the course work of a physical education instructor. And he got a Rhodes scholarship for that?

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He is pursuing a master's degree in medical anthropology at fricking Oxford. All the people on here trying to discredit him can eat a dick. The dude is a fricking model citizen and regardless of what he did to get to Oxford... He is still way smarter than you and me.

I won't talk shite about his undergrad degree because I've looked at the Exercise Science course load, there is a shitton of Biology and not really much different than a pre-med degree. I think it just has less chemistry in it.

It's a really common major for people who want to go to PT or PA school.