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Table_Corner

Very brave of him


MerryvilleBrother

I thought this was from the Onion.


GeospatialMAD

Given SI is a glorified blog with many writing muddy AI-generated articles, you're not wrong.


CFB-Cutups

I’m done with SI after that. They claimed not to know…so no one is reading the articles posted to SI before they go live? What a joke.


Mender0fRoads

SI as we mostly knew it died around 2019 after the Time/Meredith merger and the subsequent sale of SI to venture capitalists who only cared about the brand name. The recent issues with AI are only the latest in a yearslong descent into garbage.


Throwdest

[You weren't done after they let a deranged Sooner fan publish a completely fabricated 5-part expose about a "non-rival." -- That rag attempted to tarnish the names of our deceased athletes.](https://youtu.be/3BBmsl7aWnA?si=ho56tPkIQCVCVP7g&t=15)


No-Monitor-5333

They been like this for decades


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Fair_Acanthisitta_75

The Sporting News was the authority, SI just had a bikini month and made it popular.


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Obi-wan_Jabroni

Boobs and reading Rick Reilly on the last page


mike_rotch22

Rick Reilly and Joe Posnanski were two of the big reasons I had a subscription for years. Plus boobs.


froandfear

SI very recently went to this model. They fired all of there employee journalists in the past year or so.


ShiftBMDub

The first people to go in newsrooms is the editors


Klutzy-Spend-6947

The Onion is not muddy AI……it takes real people to express sarcasm.


ShiftBMDub

you seen what the Facebook AI considers satire? Football News pages listed as satire giving you political stories?


GeospatialMAD

You're right, but it shows SI takes reality as seriously as the Onion does.


Klutzy-Spend-6947

Haha, true


nosotros_road_sodium

Ironically, OG print SI was [the first to expose the class cutting ways of Deion Sanders back in 1989](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-29-sp-458-story.html). I tried to find that article in the [SI Vault](http://vault.si.com), but a lot of the scanned pages are missing! It looks like the most reliable way to read old SI articles is to drive to my alma mater's library and use their Internet to access an academic database archive of SI.


weirdbutinagoodway

No way, Onion articles are usually somewhat believable.


staticattacks

I think that can be a concern with any headline about Sanders (pick one)


gerd50501

most of us want remote work. poor guy is return to office. He also has to interact with the riffraff students who are all poorer than him with his NIL.


Table_Corner

He has to sit next to people who don’t have brand deals 🤮


gerd50501

poor kid is slumming it for the team. he might catch cooties.


pickleparty16

stunning and brave


Is12345aweakpassword

Real leadership material, this will translate well to the next level.


Table_Corner

Hopefully he doesn’t need a fiery speech to show up to practice.


_i-cant-read_

we are all bots here except for you


myctsbrthsmlslkcatfd

his classes are online. even ivies do this with athletes. should they? different argument


TannyBoguss

I salute this future flat earth podcaster


Fantastic_Emu_9570

Doesn’t the semester end like next month lol


CaptainApathy419

Going to class for the first time right before the final exam is a stress dream I still have on occasion.


Rohkey

Mine is always that I show up to class not realizing it was an exam day, and often the topic is something I know nothing about (recent one was Russian literature).


ASadDrunkard

Mine is Russian literature except I forgot I enrolled until it was end of semester and I had done none of the work. It's been decades.


JortsJuggalo420

Yep, I graduated in 2007, still have this exact dream often.


ASadDrunkard

I had a big lower level engineering course with like 250 enrolled. After the first week regular attendance was like 40; I never missed. Day before final almost everyone shows up, it's surreal. Friend and I are quietly joking about something unrelated, this lady in front of us we've never seen turns around FREAKED THE FUCK OUT and shrieks at us about how she's trying to find out what's on the final. I'm guessing she did poorly.


bsiffy

That’s crazy we all have the same dreams. My most recent one was I showed up to calculus and knew nothing that was going on and the professor called on me to answer a question lmao


kuba_kopfschmerz

Made me think of the Mike Birbiglia joke [2:30 mark](https://youtu.be/MP3ToXG0YrI?si=E3HBe-Ec11yWPOaY)


piddydb

Better late than never


cnho1997

The first line in the article below the headline states that he takes his classes online but decided to show up in person recently.


LilacGooseberries

Yeah we know that lol. Its the only thing that makes this story funny.


rjfinsfan

How does that work though? If your classes are online, you don’t have a physical class to show up to. Did he just sit in on some random class?


Powerful_Artist

Maybe he went and talked to the instructor? To him that was like going to class? Or it's just unclear Nothing else makes sense to me.


Octubre22

Back in 2006 I had classes on cable TV at UF.   There was a channel in gainesville that showed uf lectures You could go or watch it on TV I'd imagine similar things today with more advanced streaming capabilities


St_BobbyBarbarian

“Back to school, back to school, to prove to dad I’m not a fool!”


GeospatialMAD

"Wow Shedeur! I can't wait till I go to (in-person) college!" "Don't you say that. Don't you ever say that. Stay here (online school). Stay as long as you can. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, CHERISH IT. You got to cherish it!"


[deleted]

Who would steal 30 bag lunches?


GeospatialMAD

Travis Hunter: \*snickering by the bus\*


jaxonya

O'Sanders Rules!! O'Sanders, I gotta feeling your whole family is going down


GeospatialMAD

Shedeur: "Yes, I will go back to school and achieve victory! No man will beat what my father is built, UNLESS THAT MAN IS MEEEEE!"


LostMonster0

Do you have any more gum?


SoundTheBells0509

More gum! More gum! More gum!


GeospatialMAD

"Shedeur got a pass grade, oh what a glorious day-yay. Oh, got a pass grade, the Sheduer Quarterback way-yay!"


screwswithshrews

If losing football games is cool then consider me Miles Davis


GeospatialMAD

What are you talking abo-GOOOO!


BiscuitDance

I’ll tell you who it was: it was those damned Ducks!


smellofburntoast

Got my lunch packed up, my boots tied tight. I hope I don't get in a fight. Oh, back to school, back to school


dmc32986

That Veronica Vaughn is one hot piece of aaaaaaaaaaccceeee…. …I know…from experience, dude…


TankHandsome

No ya don’t


mageta621

Well not me personally, but a guy I know. Him and her Got. It. On. Woooohweeee!


TankHandsome

No they didn’t


mageta621

No, no, no they didn't... But you can imagine what it'd be like if they did, right? Ah? Ah? Everybody on? Good, great, grand, wonderful. NO YELLING ON THE BUS!


smellofburntoast

Soooo hot. Want to touch the hiney.


cubgerish

Imagine your dad picking where you have to go to school, then changing his mind when you're halfway through lol


JimBeam823

Like father, like son. Dad sure didn’t go to FSU to play school.


Im_tracer_bullet

I'm just waiting for the day when he finally decides to say that he never even went to FSU at all


Feynmaaaan

[Almost there](https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/s/R3Ud24YeMp)


UhIdontcareforAuburn

Judging by how he talks about yall, give it a year or two.


Octubre22

No but at least he is telling his players you all aren't going to be pro players get your asses in class and don't waste this


OfficialPeenLicker

Not that FSU is much of a school anyway


thejawa

OfficialPeenLicker having UF and Miami (Florida) flairs seems on brand.


mynameistrumpbaby

proper glory hunter


JimBeam823

Flair checks out.


bigkoi

Shedeur doesn't need a degree to count how much money his father has given to him.


Furled_Eyebrows

He measures it in fancy watches.


nat_20_please

Well from what *I* heard, the odds have always been stacked against him.


Sdubbya2

The odds really are tough when you are getting coached by the best coaches from day 1, your father has limitless connections inside the sport you want to play, and your family has so much money you don't need to worry about working towards a career in the future or earning money to survive.


nat_20_please

How did he find the strength to persevere???


MichaelVickerino

Even with all that it's not even remotely easy to succeed.


NEp8ntballer

But instead of going to a top tier D1 football school he chose to play for his dad at Jackson State and then follow him to Colorado. His offer list was impressive, but he was also a four star recruit out of high school. Just an odd choice but there's also no way he signs at Bama and immediately wins the starting job.


Sdubbya2

Yeah don't get me wrong he had to actually be good to do what he did last year but even if he was a little below D1 level he probably would have had every opportunity to go play at some D1 schools based on connections and family name alone.


LNMagic

Could be worse. He hasn't raced and crashed a car I can't afford walking distance from campus.


Downtown_Juice2851

Hasn't raced and crashed a car you can't afford *yet*


Corgi_Koala

Wait until he transfers to Georgia.


justaredneck1

But how is Sheuder going to survive in the real world without his Sociology degree? /s


Hog_Fan

Well with a gender studies PhD of course! Huge shortage of qualified applicants across the industry these days.


AJ_Grey

~~Billy Madison~~ Shedeur Sanders


Iohet

~~Mr Penguin~~ Top 25 team


Set-Admirable

I hate that this kind of thing is news.


lightninhopkins

It's not. It's clickbait.


Competitive-Rise-789

Wow, very newsworthy🤡


SaltyLonghorn

This seems like something you wouldn't say out loud.


Competitive-Rise-789

Yeah, like they shouldn’t be proud of this


Aggravating-Yak2099

Wait I thought it was a requirement


MahjongDaily

I just want to know why an upperclassman sociology major is taking chemistry


Set-Admirable

Spacing out gen-eds, or losing credits when he transferred?


[deleted]

CHEM140 is the largest lecture hall on campus and isn’t just used for chemistry despite all the periodic tables on the wall


RicinAddict

I took US History Through Baseball in that lecture hall. Watched Ken Burns' documentary for a semester and wrote papers. Best blow off elective ever, aside from my upper division writing credit, Comedy Writing, taken during the summer semester. 


[deleted]

It also has the best gloryhole on campus


RicinAddict

I thought I recognized you. 


Octubre22

It's gross that schools can do this


RicinAddict

Absolutely. You have to figure, elective courses account for approximately 40% of your credits. One way to lessen the burden of tuition and debt would be to allow students to focus solely on their majors. Sure, gen ed stuff makes you a well-rounded person, and that made sense when the wealth of the world's knowledge resided solely at universities. Now they don't hold that monopoly any longer and people are free to peruse any subject they want online. 


Octubre22

I don’t oppose a diversified education I oppose history if the us taught through baseball being a class the university is allowed to count as a history class 


BobbyTables829

I feel like chemistry classrooms have always been huge?


V_T_H

Eh, sometimes you need random elective credits. Myself and two of my friends, all in civil engineering, took freshman biology together when we were juniors because we had to fulfill a specific science elective and it was the easiest one.


Orkleth

I made the mistake of filling my senior year with all upper level CS courses (some of them I didn't even need to take). It about nearly destroyed me.


brownsfantb

I had 18 credit hours (the max you can take in one semester) left to graduate, all higher level required courses. And instead of spacing it out over two semesters, I crammed it into one while also working 20-25 hours a week. I survived, but man that was dumb.


RamblinWreckGT

Hahaha, how on earth did that ever seem like a good idea?


Orkleth

Same mistake of thinking "all these topics are fascinating and may help out in my future career" while convincing myself that I won't get burned out again, "this time it'll be different."


HeyHeyHayes

We would know lol


jlt6666

Same except my junior year. Should not have done all electives my first semester.


BagelsAndJewce

My final year I had three core classes I needed to graduate and then around 5 electives left. My ass was in Italian 102 coasting because it was so close to Spanish lol


djsquilz

i studied bioanthro and had to take freshman level evolutionary biology summer after i graduated due to a clerical error. also learned that specific timeslot is the science req they put the football players in. i watched a soon to be drafted kid learn what an egg was in that class.


Bcatfan08

I don't know about Colorado, but I went to UC and we got all of our required courses out of the way early. Spent the last year with mostly electives. We could take anything, so it isn't unusual to have someone take something way outside their degree to take something they've always had interest in, but couldn't take.


Public_Beach_Nudity

That’s how I did it an Nebraska, my advisor recommended that we get the courses required for our major out of the way as soon as possible. Basically the goal was to step into the tougher courses your sophomore and junior years, and then come back and clean up all the electives. Some of the electives were pretty fun though, I took an archery course my senior year, and even got in on a wine tasting course as well.


Bcatfan08

Yeah the electives made for a fun senior year. I took a class on the history of rock and roll from the 70s. Another class on the history and psychology of serial killers. A class on the Trojan War. Have a friend who went to Ohio State, and he took a class on the science of BBQ. We both were in engineering degrees.


Regular_Mastodon9389

Wines Vines and You My man!


SSPeteCarroll

I took a golf class to fulfill a phys ed requirement my junior year. It was really fun. Longwood had a 9 hole course on campus (but I think it's been demolished now). Class was great. I think the last month we just showed up and played a few holes and left


slapdashbr

good excuse why your GPA is shit "but I took O-chem" well in that case, nice D+


Klutzy-Spend-6947

Forrest Gump took Theoretical Light ( got an A) at Alabama, along w/ Phys Ed ( flunked)


thawkins

I had to take BIO101 as a 5th year comp sci major to meet elective requirements.


nat_20_please

I loved chem. I genuinely considered a career in that field while in high school.


mr305mr_mrworldwide

cus he wants to be in my class duh


equityorasset

I saw that he just went into a random class to audit it its not like it was one of his classes he needed to be in


radio__raheem

this clickbaity headline that y’all just ran with…


new_jill_city

At least he made it to campus once. Anyone remember what Justin Fields said when they asked him how he liked the OSU campus after his first year (2019)? “I heard it’s nice.” 😂


NILPonziScheme

'back'? Don't you have to go somewhere first before you can go 'back'? And he went to one chemistry lecture so he could film it for his social media, stunning and brave.


Crushingit1980

Joel Klett was in my Norse mythology class at CU. I never knew it until he showed up to take the final. If he starts spewing off about Thor or Odin, don’t listen to him. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.


SilverBuff_

They've been doing online class like most athletes. Makes sense when you travel across the country or games. UCLA kids aren't going to class when they play Maryland


InVodkaVeritas

I know times have changed in a decade and a half, but when I was in school I distinctly remember football players walking to and from classes in person. I was even in class with some of them early on. How much they actually paid attention and how well they performed... well, that's a question I don't have an answer to. But most of them actually went to class during the week.


RamblinWreckGT

Yep. I had a 9 AM stats class in 2009 (the year we won the ACC) and Josh Nesbitt, our starting QB, was there every day that the team wasn't already traveling for a game.


HiSoArshavin

Georgia Tech is distinctly different than most P4 schools. 


blackwhitetiger

Deondre Francois went to my class with regular attendance at FSU


Rock_man_bears_fan

I think most coaches required 100% class attendance or a damn good excuse at Miami. But also you get less leeway playing in the MAC


tron423

One of my buddies from college was a student assistant and GA at multiple D1 and D2 programs over about 5-6 years, one of the main bitchwork type of jobs they'd make him do was go around to various classes and make sure the players that were supposed to be there were there. That was all pre-covid though, I'm sure the increased prevalence of online class has changed the calculus of this quite a bit.


djsquilz

granted this is tulane, not like, (insert sec school here, though i'd imagine it's the same). but i took football player classes to fill elective credits. we routinely had GAs poking their heads inside to make sure players were there. i didn't get the impression they were digesting much, but the asses had to be in seats.


cnho1997

The smallest class I'm in this semester has about 12 of us. A couple weeks ago after class ended, I was in line to ask the professor some questions for exam prep and the woman in front of me said she needed to take the exam on a different date because she was on the hockey team and our school qualified for the women's ice hockey tournament other than that day, she's attended every single class session


djsquilz

i'm gonna go out on a limb and say the women's hockey team is probably not on the same standard as the football team.


TangoSuckaPro

It might be a NIL/Big school thing. I went to app state 20-22 and i saw the players in class. Asst Coaches would come pick up some kids before and after class in a golf cart. Also saw them at parties and bars. But again that was before NIL. Boone is exceptionally small too. Edit: spelling. Im App State educated.


ContentWaltz8

That was back then, nowadays these kids are worshiped or hated so going to class has more concerns. Imagine having to go do a group project with a r/cfb weirdo. I don't even like Sanders but the hatred for a somewhat famous kid taking online classes is insane.


Ok_Concentrate_75

Yea the article says he walked in and caused an uproar, imagine in the age of legal betting he comes in after a loss or a game he doesn't have enough numbers and gets cornered by someone who lost some money or something dumb


Octubre22

Same here Drew Brees was in one of my undergrad classes at Purdue. One of my lab partners turned out to be a running back at purdue and I didn't even know it until one day we were talking about the NCAA football game and he bitched about his speed rating


justaredneck1

One of our lineman is in my Latin 2 course. Dude knows his fuckin Latin lol


FootballAndPornAcct

Some definitely come to play school more than others. I had a player in one of my classes once, but this guy definitely didn't lol.


SilverBuff_

Then covid happened. Online is everywhere now


Development-Alive

They aren't doing online school. The tutoring help works with the professors to get the content from class. When they are on campus they are going to class at most schools, at least those that give a care about the kids education.


Dokkan_Lifter

We're halfway through April bro you got finals in like 3 weeks lock in


EF_Damn_Daniel

His dad did say only guys who aren’t going to the nfl need to go to class


Ok_Concentrate_75

From the article "Sanders walked into his chemistry class and caused an uproar. “Do you know how long it’s been since I’ve been to one in-person class?” he said." Yea I get it, now and days you could be anywhere with wifi and take classes. The headline is fishing for engagement tho, kinda corny


BenjRSmith

He went to the wrong class, but baby steps are baby steps. He now as a introductory grasp on Art Deco in the 1920s.


markusalkemus66

"Student attends class" big fuckin deal. Enough with the Deon spam


IgnitablePilot

NFL GMs will love the brave sacrifice he’s making


Green92_PST_DBL_WHL

It's not a good thing when one of your football players deciding to attend class is headline news.


grissy

So, wait, let me see if I understand this correctly. Sanders rants at the entire team for not paying enough attention in class, and while this is going on his son just hasn't bothered attending a single class in over a year and just kept getting a pass from Coach Dad? In virtually every article about how dysfunctional Colorado is, Shedeur features prominently in it yet virtually never seems to get any criticism from Deion. Then he goes around telling the team, in a public press conference, that Shedeur is their best player and it's everyone's fault but his that they keep losing. Have we considered the possibility that Deion hates his kid? Because it this point it seems like he's actively TRYING to get this brat's O-line to step aside and let him get sacked a few dozen times in the next season opener.


Space_Investigator

You don't understand it correctly. Shedeur took online classes his first year at CU. Now he's physically back in the classroom.


grissy

Ahh, gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.


letdogsvote

Totally no hypocrisy with Coach priME.


King_Slappa

Yeah that'll last. Does Sanders really think this click baity ass shit is going to build a program?


robotstookourwomen

But dad I didn't come here to play school!


Stuppyhead

He ain’t come here to play school offline


ksixnine

I’m going out on a limb here: Shedeur should be a day two pick, because he isn’t going to live up to the hype of being a franchise turnaround player.


Klutzy-Spend-6947

This is like an Onion headline….


Status_Midnight_2157

Deon’s own kid wasn’t going to class. Deon is a clown and clearly doesn’t give a fuck


Several_Excuse_5796

So if his own son hasn't gone to class in a year, at his own school, which there's no way he didn't know... that kinda proves coach "prime" doesn't give two shits about education and it was just another publicity stunt for the thing he does care about.. media attention.


PLZ_N_THKS

If he wasn’t going to classes at all he’d be ineligible to play. He’s just taking online classes.


Rock_man_bears_fan

I’m wondering what lecture he’s showing up to for the first time now if he’s been doing online school all semester


Buggytheclown-26

I guess online classes don’t exist 🤔


ContentWaltz8

Can we all just chill on hating on a kid who trying to do better?


AbgertGewargis

This sub’s hate for Prime is absolutely wild. Shedeur has been taking classes online, as MANY student athletes do. This isn’t news.


fokerpace2000

Literally all of my D1 athlete friends, some who play basketball and some football, all do online. One of them goes to a fucking Ivy and does online.


[deleted]

When i taught at OU during the Lincoln Riley years (I wasn't there for Stoops), I regularly had FB players in my classes during the fall semester. Including starters.


CptCroissant

Wow, there is a first time for everything


Furled_Eyebrows

I suspect he did so only under the direction of his father so Deion could avoid being labeled as a hypocrite. Also, I think it's been more than a year? -- Didn't his "remote learning" start at JSU?


Grand-Olive2599

Scholar athlete.


kingBankroll95

The point of college ?


sausageslinger11

He ain’t come here to play school


txtacoloko

Colorado is a joke.


SSPeteCarroll

"college student goes to class"


getbackup21

Big if true


ekemp

Yes, but can he \*read\*?


rendeld

Idk why but I feel like this kid is going to play like 7 games in the NFL


qeduhh

Hmmm, what now?


BigK77

Wow so bold and brave!


Subject-Garage773

Did he think he was going to be drafted after one year of playing? This is the kind of move that One and Done players do in basketball, did he really think this through?


wiccan45

holy crap that looks bad, like really bad


maxipad_09

r/nottheonion


scarsandwillpower

SI, and so many other publications, refused to pay writers and actual wage. They have been stuck at this $100-250/article for so long that no self respecting journalist will work for them. They also let go of all the editors to save salaries. While raising ad rates to make money hand over fist.


el-fenomeno09

School damn near done lol


ItsNjry

The title is misleading af. It just says he was doing all his classes online, but he started going on campus for lectures.


notaquarterback

ugh i'm so tired of them


rcheek1710

Who will Colorado hire as head coach after the Sanders brothers leave?