<p>Derrick Rose playing at Memphis most likely had some benefit financially for students that didn’t play basketball. And athletes in non-revenue sports are supported by athletes from revenue sports.</p>
<p>“I believe he could’ve just sat a year out of HS.”</p>
<p>I don’t know if you play sports but you can’t just stop playing for a year if you aren’t constantly practicing your game gets worse. And if he went to junior college he wouldn’t have the same quality of coaching and he wouldn’t have been the #1 draft pick.</p>
<p>bottom line…WHO CARES!! Derrick Rose did poorly on his SAT…GUESS WHAT!! It didnt matter then, doesnt matter now, and will never matter. He went to Memphis, not Princeton, and for basketball, not neuroscience. So seriously what is the big deal? I do however feel that he should have had the chance to go straight to the NBA, thats not fair Mr.Stern.</p>
<p>The school he went to is irrelevant. Does USC get a pass for giving players $$$ because it’s an academically rigorous school? Absolutely not.</p>
<p>The issue is grade fixing in HS (possibly not qualifying for NCAA), which would be a severe violation. Someone taking the SAT for him, another severe violation. It most definitely matters, because it destroys the integrity of the athletic department.</p>
<p>His job was to play basketball while maintaining the NCAA minimum GPA.</p>
<p>I never mentioned giving players money. thats bad only because the NCAA says so. if u ask me, for all the money players bring into colleges, they should be getting some of the cut. but thats just my opinion. And grade fixing, yeah it aint right. But it happens, always will because $$$$$ is the bottom line.</p>
<p>the man did not just do poorly on his SAT. he did miserably. he did unacceptably poorly. </p>
<p>He averaged 370 between M and CR. That doesn’t demonstrate being of merely average intelligence. that represents the inability to perform at most anything requiring critical thought.</p>
<p>Jeez we get it. Obviously you don’t care about cheating and dishonesty, and obviously you don’t care about somebody being at an academic institution without even bothering with the pretense of being a student. This thread should just die.</p>
<p>If I was Derrick Rose, I would’ve gotten someone to get barely above the NCAA limit. Even if they got a fair amount above that no one would’ve ever looked into the matter like they are now.</p>
<p>well than diontechristmas you must know that going overseas to play in a foreign country, going to a juco, or playing in the wack NBDL are no where near playing D1</p>