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Courtney Paris: A title, or I'll pay

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by shotglass, Mar 10, 2009.

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  1. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    That's an awfully optimistic outlook for a running-off-at-the-mouth moment at a senior day speech.
     
    imjustagirl, Mar 10, 2009
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  2. dreunc1542

    dreunc1542 Active Member

    That surprised me as well. Tuition, room and board is now at 44k+ per year at my school, but then I thought about Oklahoma being a state school and the fact that they are probably just factoring in tuition, not room and board, and I could see that number being about right.
     
    dreunc1542, Mar 10, 2009
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  3. shotglass

    shotglass Guest

    Maybe not a household name, but he was a pretty consistent All-Pro lineman for quite a few years. Probably the best-known lineman in front of Montana in his prime.
     
    shotglass, Mar 10, 2009
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  4. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    This is more and more dumb, the more I think about it. She's a scholarship athlete -- her obligation is to get an education and play as hard as she can. That's it. Putting a win/loss factor into an entire four years of education is shallow at best, dangerous at worst -- you watch another kid make that same guarantee soon, and watch delusional fans/alumni add "you should pay the school back!" to their arsenal of taunts against an underperforming 20-year-old kid.

    I'm sure it was just a Senior Night play to the crowd, like ijag said, but it's still a bad idea. If a coach or staffer knew she was going to say that, they should have talked her out of it. If not, Oklahoma should have issued a statement afterward saying "that was a generous offer from Ms. Paris, but it's been our pleasure to have her. No payback necessary. Go Sooners."
     
    playthrough, Mar 10, 2009
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  5. Mystery_Meat

    Mystery_Meat Guest

    And I don't recall a lot of support for Anthony Smith when he guaranteed the Steelers would beat the Patriots a couple of years ago

    http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/posts/1541440/
     
    Mystery_Meat, Mar 10, 2009
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  6. SportsHack1818

    SportsHack1818 Member

    Question ... Did she guarantee the Sooners will win the title, or did she say she would pay the money back if they didn't?

    Those are two different things.
     
    SportsHack1818, Mar 10, 2009
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  7. shotglass

    shotglass Guest

    I don't know if I'm quite ready to assign all those negatives to her gesture.
     
    shotglass, Mar 10, 2009
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  8. Oz

    Oz Well-Known Member

    If Paris is serious about this, I would hope she pays in-state tuition to curb the cost.
     
    Oz, Mar 10, 2009
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  9. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    Well, she just guaranteed that I'll try to watch some of her games in the NCAA women's tournament which I likely would not have watched otherwise. Good for her.
     
    RickStain, Mar 10, 2009
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  10. shotglass

    shotglass Guest

    Now, there's a glass-half-full kind of guy. ;)
     
    shotglass, Mar 10, 2009
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  11. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Well, you and the cats get back to me when you've reached a decision!

    But seriously...who's going to argue against big-time athletes being paid mercenaries if schools will even entertain taking scholarship money back?

    (jeez, this is more time than I've ever spent in a women's hoops thread.)
     
    playthrough, Mar 10, 2009
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  12. Wenders

    Wenders Well-Known Member

    I heard that she's paying it all back, tuition, room, board and books. I went to a Big 12 school as well and I would estimate it was between 25K and 30K for me to pay in-state tuition, room, board and books for four years. It was twice that much for out-of-state students.
     
    Wenders, Mar 10, 2009
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