Student-Athletes, Bracketology and Homework
March 21, 2009
Posted March 21, 2009 1:20 p.m. CST
By Will Hanlon
Hanlon.will @gmail.com
MINNEAPOLIS -- I've been hearing the term "student-athletes" been thrown around a lot here lately. Take for instance, when Cory posed a question yesterday at the post-game interviews toward head coach Brian Gregory and the moderate scolded our esteemed FN sports editor, "Please direct all questions to only the student-athletes at this time."
Players would have worked just fine, I think. But it wasn't the first time I heard student-athlete this week so far. Heard it a lot actually.
After the victory yesterday in the Flyers' locker room, the TV was on for a bit as some of the guys checked up on some of the other games' scores. Somebody asked senior Charles Little how is bracket was doing so far and good he was at "bracketology."
"Bracketology? I gotta worry about doing my homework!" Little shouted.
When I talked to junior Kurt Huelsman on Thursday, he told me he doesn't even fill out a bracket, and never has.
"I don't want my lack of basketball knowledge outside the Dayton program exposed," Hueslman said with a laugh.
And speaking of knowledge and student-athletes, the team (and the FN sports team for that matter) has been missing quite a bit of school lately for the Atlantic 10 Tournament and now the NCAA Tournament.
I asked Huelsman what the key was to staying on top of things back on the home front.
"You just really got to keep in touch with your professors. Let them know that you're trying to keep up with stuff and keep up with the homework and everything," Hueslman said. "You can't give them the feeling that you're just kind of out here playing basketball and not doing anything academically. You don't want to make them feel like, 'Hey, they're not doing anything for class,' but we really are.
"A lot of guys bring books on the road to study. They bring their computers too so that way they can keep in touch. That's the key thing."
Junior Marcus Johnson had similar thoughts.
"School-wise you just got to stay focused and keep in touch with your teachers. All the homework and all the assignments we're going to be missing, you got to keep up with that on the road," Johnson said. "Coaches have us do study tables and stuff like that on the road. We just got to stay focused and keep up with the work."
Got to go, it's time to interview the student-athletes again.
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