Spring Break
Goodbye to Storrs
Kevin Duffy
Issue date: 4/28/09 Section: Sports
So this is it, UConn - my last column as sports editor at The Daily Campus.
The seniors - especially the die-hard sports fans - have seen a lot in the past four years. Remember Donald Brown's first career start versus Rutgers on Oct. 26, 2006? Who would have thought - even after he rushed for 199 yards and two touchdowns against the Scarlet Knights - that he'd end up as the nation's leading rusher and a first-round draft pick? And how about Hasheem Thabeet? Remember how awkward he was as a freshman (and how awkward the whole team was)? Now he's on his way to being a top-three pick in June's NBA draft after starring for a Final Four team this past season.
I could sit here for hours and reminisce about all the great UConn games I've watched over the last four years. I could go on forever about all the Spring Weekends, all the great parties and all the times I've thrown up in my bed. But I won't. I want to look to the future.
Thabeet, Brown, Darius Butler, Cody Brown, Will Beatty, A.J. Price and Jeff Adrien will all go onto make UConn proud. They're all set to make millions. Even though the country is in a serious recession, they're not the only ones.
Here at UConn, we have a whole group of soon-to-be graduates who will go on to run their own companies or become prosperous lawyers or doctors. We have business majors who have already inked jobs at big firms with starting salaries at or above $50,000. We have engineers who are going to live in giant houses and drive fast cars because of all their fancy graduated cylinders and big science words and all that BS.
Then, there's everybody else - the thousands of kids that UConn will erase from the records. The psych majors, the communication majors, geography, philosophy, drama, art history - they're all in trouble.
And then there are the journalists: the few, the proud, the screwed. Journalism - particularly sports journalism - is in an intense recession of its own. Newspapers are dying, no one knows how to make money online and jobs are being cut every day.
The seniors - especially the die-hard sports fans - have seen a lot in the past four years. Remember Donald Brown's first career start versus Rutgers on Oct. 26, 2006? Who would have thought - even after he rushed for 199 yards and two touchdowns against the Scarlet Knights - that he'd end up as the nation's leading rusher and a first-round draft pick? And how about Hasheem Thabeet? Remember how awkward he was as a freshman (and how awkward the whole team was)? Now he's on his way to being a top-three pick in June's NBA draft after starring for a Final Four team this past season.
I could sit here for hours and reminisce about all the great UConn games I've watched over the last four years. I could go on forever about all the Spring Weekends, all the great parties and all the times I've thrown up in my bed. But I won't. I want to look to the future.
Thabeet, Brown, Darius Butler, Cody Brown, Will Beatty, A.J. Price and Jeff Adrien will all go onto make UConn proud. They're all set to make millions. Even though the country is in a serious recession, they're not the only ones.
Here at UConn, we have a whole group of soon-to-be graduates who will go on to run their own companies or become prosperous lawyers or doctors. We have business majors who have already inked jobs at big firms with starting salaries at or above $50,000. We have engineers who are going to live in giant houses and drive fast cars because of all their fancy graduated cylinders and big science words and all that BS.
Then, there's everybody else - the thousands of kids that UConn will erase from the records. The psych majors, the communication majors, geography, philosophy, drama, art history - they're all in trouble.
And then there are the journalists: the few, the proud, the screwed. Journalism - particularly sports journalism - is in an intense recession of its own. Newspapers are dying, no one knows how to make money online and jobs are being cut every day.
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cj
posted 4/28/09 @ 9:48 AM EST
'you've rode'?
learned a lot, eh? or maybe you threw up any knowledge of english in your bed.
getting that back in line may make some difference out there in the job hunt, dude. (Continued…)
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