Spotlight Question
Q: Isn't the real reason Lil' Romeo and his father, Master P, insisted that he got a basketball scholarship to USC, as opposed to being a walk on, the fact that he could have only gotten into USC under athletic department admissions but not through the regular admission office process?
A: Actually, a walk-on athlete in any sport is able to circumvent the regular admissions process. So if you're a 17-year-old out there and want to go to USC, I suggest you take a sudden interest in crew.
And Miller did not need to do much insisting on anything, because it was a package deal with Demar DeRozan.
Was there some documented proof that Percy Miller was a bad student or are you just assuming he was not smart enough to get into USC because he was an African American? This question seems to have some underlying racism in it and it a shame that you made it the spotlight question, unless there is proof he did not meet the criteria to gain acceptance.
sed4heisman:
What a ridiculous and absurd reach by you. Anyone who sees race in that question, then they are insecure about themselves. Just liberalism run amok.
My mouth is agape over the sheer stupidity of what you wrote. Utterly breathtakingly stupid.
Agreed. Very, very stupid race baiting post by sed4heisman.
I tend to agree with Sed.
What evidence is there that Percy Miller couldn't get in based on academics. The person who asked the question showed his/her own ignorance about the situation when they revealed that they thought gaining admission was tied to getting a scholarship.
Maybe Percy is a smart kid. God knows his parents have enough money to hire tutors and such (if needed) to augment his standard education.
Assuming that he's a bad student is questionable at best.
Hmmm, provocative question. But, I think, a great question. The early word for quite a while was that he would WALK-ON. Did his family really insist on a scholarship, and if so, why? He has plenty of money, and SC could needs its scholarships badly. So, was it a pride thing and they played the package deal card with Demar? Or, were his grades possibly atrocious? I agree that Sed jumped the race card, and Percy sounds like a smart kid in interviews. I suspect it was a pride thing, and in return, they guaranteed Demar as well as big-time SC hoops exposure. I still think it was a good move by Floyd, as the more exposure the better for the program at this point. Positive exposure that is, no Guillorys.
I think it is a defintie good question to ask.
USC Is very difficult to get into. There are plenty of students who get rejected with 4.0's and excellent test scores.
Questioning whether or not he would have qualified under normal circumstances is not out of the questions.
Bringing up the race card is ridiculous.
Wrong ways of building a basketball program at USC.
Race has nothing to do with it. Money would have had everything to do with it. Everybody knows somebody that bought their way through SC admissions.
I think this is an excellent and completely legitimate question.
Pulling the race card is pathetic and extremely desperate.
Legitimate question, but who really cares? The fact remains he's in and received a scholie.
BTW, he can afford the tuition. He doesn't even need his family to pitch in.
Totally legitimate question. Race has nothing to do with what was asked.
As an African American graduate of USC, I was merely asking why he thought Percy could not get into USC without being an athlete. That is my question, what proof is there he would not have been accepted?
sed4heisman:
So are you saying that if someone asked the same question about the son of Tommy Lee or Kid Rock, then that would be a racially-based question about a white person? Obviously not.
You have no case. You are a sad and little race baiting fool. You are far too insecure and you try to make something about race when there is nothing there to suggest such. Simply pathetic.
I do not intend to make myself out as the kind of man who tries to play the "race card", I truly wanted to know why the comment was made that this kid would not be accepted to USC. Is there proof that he is not a good student? I would ask the question about any kid that this comment was made about. If the kid was black, asian, white, latino or whatever it doesn't matter, I wanted to know if there was proof he wasn't a good student and not the assumption of a reader. I felt like the question had underlying racism, if that is not what was intended when the question was asked, I am sorry, but I would still like to know why he/she believed he would not be accepted .
As far as money goes, there are tons of athletes that can afford to pay there own ways, but none of them do. I'm sure Sam Baker's Dad made enough money to pay for his tuition.