Some of you people talk about this making you sick, some of you people make me sick. I've been a lifelong Democrat, but now I completely understand the socialism talk by Republicans. Here is this kid who excelled in the classroom and on the football field, earned an athletic scholarship on a Division I-A college football team with his hard work in school and hard work in practice and in football games, and instead of celebrating his achievements in life, we're condemning him because his rich father isn't paying his way through college.
Have any of you ever thought maybe Justin is trying to do things on his own, set himself up for success on his own like his father did, trying to make his own name for himself instead of riding daddy's coattails to fame? Maybe Sean is making his son earn his way into and through college instead of just letting junior ride his coattails, spend his hard earned money and go through life with a silver spoon because he's the son of a $500 million man, instead of working hard like his father and earning his own money, earning his own successes in life and having a successful and productive life?
Justin Combs put in the work to get to where he is today. We tell our kids every day to work hard, put in the effort, work to achieve your goals and earn your way through life, yet when this kid does EXACTLY that, you all want to just completely rip it out of his arms just because his father happens to be a rich music mogul. So apparently it's perfectly fine to work hard for your achievements and goals and earn your way through life, unless you have a parent who is rich, then "to hell with you, have your daddy pay for it."
And if his father should have to pay everything because he's rich, like Golic was saying this morning, where is the cut off line? If you earn $100,000 per year you have to pay your kid's way through college no matter what? $500,000 per year? $1 million in the bank account? $5 million in the bank account? What's the line people?
Next, this is an athletic scholarship, paid for by ticket sales, donors, boosters, etc. This is not public money your own son or daughter can earn just for doing well in their classes. So some random kid who was depending on that money to get them into school, no, this isn’t financial aid, it’s a scholarship for elite and good football players.
As for the “next kid in line” who could have received that scholarship, if the coaches truly wanted that kid and that kid truly was good enough in the classroom and on the field to earn his own scholarship, he would have received one. He didn’t, he wasn’t good enough to earn a UCLA football scholarship. It happens every year at all 120 Division I-A football teams, some kid whose parents think he’s the next Tom Brady find out their kid isn’t good enough to earn a scholarship from a DI-A football team, its life! Get used to it!
And finally to end, a question I have been challenging people to answer all day long, and yet amazingly, not one single person has either been able to answer or willing to answer. If you're so outraged and up in arms because Sean Combs' son was given a scholarship that he EARNED with his hard work in the classroom and on the field, then where the hell is the outrage and people up in arms about every other kid of a rich parent currently in colleges all over the country on athletic and academic scholarships?
How come none of you were outraged that Andrew Luck was given an athletic scholarship to Stanford even though his parents are both loaded enough to have paid for his tuition? How come none of you ARE outraged that Matt Barkley currently has an athletic scholarship to USC even though his parents are loaded enough to pay for his tuition? How come none of you were outraged back when Peyton and Eli Manning were on scholarships to play college football at UT and UM when Archie Manning definitely has more than enough money to have paid all their tuition costs?
How come none of you are outraged that Doc Rivers' son, Austin Rivers, has an athletic scholarship to play basketball at Duke, even though I'm certain Doc Rivers has more than enough money to pay for his son's tuition? How come none of you are outraged that the sons of Michael Jordan, Joe Montana, Barry Sanders, and countless other sons of rich former athletes all currently have athletic scholarships at their respective universities even through their dads all have more than enough money to pay their tuition and "free up these scholarships for the poor, under-privileged kids" who just didn't have good enough grades and wasn't quite good enough on the athletic field to earn his own scholarship over the likes of these "privileged kids of rich parents"?
If you have never ONCE been outraged at all these other privileged children of rich and famous parents earning athletic scholarships but suddenly because Sean Combs' son has earned one you consider it a grave injustice to the American education system, then you may kindly shut the hell up.
Originally Posted by psuexv
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