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College athletes and fast cars. It doesn't take a psychology degree...
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College athletes and fast cars. It doesn't take a psychology degree...

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Mar 27, 2025, 9:54 AM
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.... to understand human nature.

Give an 18 year old kid a car that will drive 150+ mph. What do you think will happen?

Go to any college in the country and give 85 students a Lambourgini, or Ferarri, or Corvette. It doesn't take a psychologist to tell you that most of those 85 kids are going to take it out on the highway and "see what it will do."

Give every player on the Clemson football team a Corvette and you would expect many of them to "test it out on the road." Maybe not as many as UGA players. But still a significant number of them.

If someone gave you a brand new Ferarri when you were 18 and handed you the keys and said, "Drive safely. Obey the speed limit" what would you have done?

Yes, I blame the players. But, I also blame the adults who think it is a great recruiting tool to promise a kid a new sports car as soon as he steps on campus.

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I know I feel safer knowing a bunch of slack-jawed jocks

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Mar 27, 2025, 9:56 AM
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with half-baked frontal lobes are racing around campus in cars they didn't pay for while my daughter's walking to class every day....

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If 22 yr old athletes that suddenly make money often waste it and lead to ruin

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Mar 27, 2025, 9:57 AM
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Then giving money to 18 yr olds should solve that problem. lawd.

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have you seen the parking lot at the football facility?

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Mar 27, 2025, 10:00 AM
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Clemson players already have these cars.

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I was thinking about Schieffelin in his purple Vette

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Mar 27, 2025, 10:34 AM
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when I wrote that poast. No offense to Schieffelin. He may be a very reasonable Vette operator.

I'm sure there are plenty of fast movers over at the football parking lot, too.

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Re: College athletes and fast cars. It doesn't take a psychology degree...

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Mar 27, 2025, 10:05 AM
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It's Kirby's culture...it's still a country Club and the thugs he recruits doesn't help.

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Mar 27, 2025, 10:14 AM
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That 42% graduation rate for Kirby’s team plays into these situations also.

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Mar 27, 2025, 11:54 AM
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I would say that at least 10 of those athletes will end up in a coffin and their fast car in the junkyard!!!

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Mar 27, 2025, 11:56 AM
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Well I wasnt an athlete or rich or had fancy sports cars but I sure did like to drive like I was Andretti.

Can't imagine I would still be alive if someone handed me a Porsche or Lambo at 18.

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Mar 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
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I have a 1973 Ford Mustang along with a speeding ticket from Nevada State Police for going 189 mph on a Nevada highway. Details later. :)

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