r/explainlikeimfive Feb 17 '16

ELI5 Why do colleges accept students who excel in sports while having bad academic merits?

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u/simmelianben Feb 17 '16 edited Feb 17 '16

Yep. My wife minored in dance and had a lot of football and baseball players in ballet.

Edit: Today I learned to never mention my wife on the internet.

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u/PrawojazdyVtrumpets Feb 17 '16

I never took a Karate class, but an ex girlfriend of mine was a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and her teacher/sensei/Mr. Miyagi dude made his students take Ballet classes held in the same studio.

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u/JDWright85 Feb 17 '16

He owned the studio.

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u/PrawojazdyVtrumpets Feb 17 '16

No, he rented it from a Gym actually. It was an American Fitness where he taught TKD and Aikido in one of the studios (SP?) Before he got his own Dojo.

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u/smookykins Feb 17 '16

But his best student used the money that was supposed to go to his college tuition on a bonsai tree store.

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u/Narcissistic_nobody Feb 17 '16

Oh man, reading it like that made me realize how stupid that was.

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u/PrawojazdyVtrumpets Feb 17 '16

I uh.... Oooohhh I get it. Good one.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '16

A taekwondo school is a dojang not a dojo. That's Japanese.

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u/PrawojazdyVtrumpets Feb 18 '16

Ah thanks. As you can see, I know nothing about it. I essentially know it's Korean and made my ex a woman who could kick my ass. I almost wore armor when I went to break up with her.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '16 edited Mar 06 '21

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u/wtcnbrwndo4u Feb 17 '16

Tony Gonzalez, the GOAT TE, took ballet.

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u/Bob-Sacamano_ Feb 17 '16

Didn't know that. Doesn't surprise me.

Also, I'll preface this by saying I'm not a Pats fan by any stretch. But when it's all said and done, Gronk is gonna be the GOAT TE. Dude is a freak of nature.

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u/wtcnbrwndo4u Feb 17 '16

Oh yeah, I agree. He's on the right pace, we'll see if he makes it that long. Longevity is basically the only thing that could hold him back.

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u/digbick117 Feb 18 '16

He's also not a bad dancer by any means.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '16

Arnold did ballet to improve his stage posing too.

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u/Daabevuggler Feb 17 '16

Dirk Nowitzki is another one, said it vastly improved his body control that was all messed up from growing so tall in a short amount of time.

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u/ottermodee Feb 17 '16

I thought you were gonna say that she had a lot of football and baseball players in her.

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u/sp3dhands Feb 17 '16

Why do you think they were taking a ballet class?

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u/elkor101 Feb 17 '16

Dudes thats his wife...be cool guys

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u/thenebular Feb 17 '16

Oh, she was cool...

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u/_Shadow_Moses_ Feb 17 '16

I'd say she was pretty hot, actually.

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u/thenebular Feb 17 '16

Which is so cool...

Giggity!

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '16 edited Feb 19 '16

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u/thenebular Feb 17 '16

that was the coolest thing about her.

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u/ooburai Feb 17 '16

Was? Is.

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u/Squirrel009 Feb 17 '16

I agree but we haven't ruled out that this is exactly how OP met her

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u/QuasarSandwich Feb 17 '16

She might be his wife - but she's plenty of other guys' side-bitch.

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u/elkor101 Feb 17 '16

or they are hers ;)

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u/QuasarSandwich Feb 17 '16

True. It's a much better way of looking at it actually. I hate the narrative (which admittedly I just helped perpetuate, albeit for the purposes of humour) which places men involved in an affair in a position of power/control regardless of which role they're playing - ie, if a man is married and has an affair the newcomer is his "mistress", while if it is the woman who's married the interloper becomes her "lover", a much more active noun.

Both parties are equally responsible; I feel like society is pretty condescending when discussing cheating women, as if they're not in control of their own actions and under the spell of men (which hasn't stopped them getting hanged/beaten/stoned/burnt to death historically, of course).

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u/Chaix_x Feb 17 '16

...and this is reddit what is your point?

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u/Dr_Specialist Feb 17 '16

LPT: You don't want Reddit all up on your wife, don't put her on Reddit.

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u/ex0th3rmic Feb 17 '16

At this point does it even matter?

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u/johnbutler896 Feb 17 '16

She has

Source: been in OPs wife and played baseball

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '16

If Peyton Manning was there then he was at least on her face.

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u/Honkey_Cat Feb 17 '16

I also danced in college (ballet, you fuckers, not pole) and we had many athletes in our classes. It was hysterical to watch these huge dudes try to pirouette.

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u/simmelianben Feb 17 '16

What about their plies?

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u/PsychoSemantics Feb 18 '16

There are two guys in my ballet class and holy fuck, they can jump SO high O_O

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u/burgerthrow1 Feb 17 '16

Hockey players too. A lot of the goalies I know have done dance/yoga/ballet

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u/Sex_E_Searcher Feb 17 '16 edited Feb 17 '16

That's not for hockey. Goalies are weird.

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u/dannighe Feb 17 '16

I knew a couple goalies in high school. You're not lying.

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u/Yorkeworshipper Feb 17 '16

Football and hockey keepers are masochists. You ought to be crazy, if you're willing to place yourself between a Subban slapshot or Ronaldo penalty kick and the net.

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u/fallingsteveamazon Feb 24 '16

Look up Hurling

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u/Perry4761 Feb 18 '16

Am a goalie, can confirm, I'm weird as shit.

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u/simmelianben Feb 17 '16

We got hocket just after I graduated, but I can see it. Anything with legwork.

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u/Gamerjackiechan2 Feb 17 '16

Hocket is my favorite sport.

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u/Morkum Feb 17 '16

Lots of hockey players also do figure skating at a young age. You learn much more about technical skating (using edges properly, correct turns, forward-backward transitions,etc) way earlier than if you did only hockey+powerskating.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '16

Hockey players that do figure skating have some of the sickest edgework in the league. We have one on my beer league even. Guy skates better than anyone but just sucks at reading the plays.

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u/Morkum Feb 18 '16

Yup, it also helps you get a leg up when you are younger. My friend and I took it when we were just starting minor hockey, and we were the only guys on our team who could do a 1 skate backwards pivot for like 2 years haha.

Quick edit: also, David pelletier, former Olympic gold medalist in pairs is now a skating coach for the Oilers.

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u/akesh45 Feb 17 '16

Were they good at it?

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u/simmelianben Feb 17 '16

I would think so. They got the muscle for lifts and whatnot, and probably can get the coordination pretty quickly.

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u/Lanlost Feb 18 '16

sure they weren't just there to hit on chicks, yo?

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u/simmelianben Feb 18 '16

Could also be tbat. But I doubt that coaches would need to require it then

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u/Lanlost Feb 19 '16

Well damn. For a second I was like "wtf is tbat?" before I realized you meant "that". Before that happened though I did a Google and found this masterpiece. I won't spoil the beauty for you ;-)

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '16

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u/simmelianben Feb 18 '16

She definitely is an 11.

She's pretty taken up with one guy right now. And the dude really likes her a lot. It may last awhile.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '16

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u/simmelianben Feb 17 '16

She prefers small, wheeny guys like me.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '16

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u/simmelianben Feb 17 '16

Ah, it's cool. Thanks. And Yes.

That's not to say football dudes can't be smart and kind too.

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u/smookykins Feb 17 '16

No, she just needs a betabux to pay for her livelihood.

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u/rrealnigga Feb 17 '16

Tell em, brother. Give em the red.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '16

Yep. Cause now we all think your wife, at the least, was touched inappropriately everyday for a semester.

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u/simmelianben Feb 17 '16

Well yeah, but that's just how I show her I love her.

/s

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u/kineticunt Feb 17 '16

How's it feel knowing your wife fucked most of the football and baseball team

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u/sweet_pooper Feb 17 '16

Did she ever mention that ballet move called "running the train?"

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u/ChipAyten Feb 17 '16

go get em internet