If the intent is to make the work load of a student athlete seem harder to undertake then I can't imagine too many scenarios where I wouldn't be on board. It's far too often that college kids who are enrolled in a full slate of courses while participating in sports that are a paycheck away from being considered semi-professional don't get nearly enough credit for their management of priorities. Therefore, I'm typically all for any story that works against the notion that being involved in athletics makes school easier. Unfortunately, the story of the student athlete who did this...
...and was welcomed back to the locker room like this...
...while this awaited him back on campus...
....put a halt to the celebration of his unlikely heroics just so he could do this is unfortunately beyond my ability to suspend disbelief...
Never mind Greek Mythology, because the idea that a newly minted campus legend put aside an unquantifiable amount of praise from his peers to type up some intricate ode to Odysseus might as well be American Mythology. Unless Jordan Poole is looking forward to a future in foreign false narratives, Greek Mythology is one of the classes you take so you can feel comfortable relaxing on your responsibilities. That's not even to say that he didn't write said paper, but it is to say that it didn't need to be any longer than "Zeus was a Greek god whose bolt was capable of everything...other than nailing a buzzer-beating three pointer to send his school to the Sweet 16" to net him an 'A' for the most minuscule amount of effort. I'm sure the transition from campus king to procrastinating undergrad was a rough one, but let's not act like Jordan Poole had to bang out a a dissertation on the downfalls of humanity mid-tournament.
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