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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Stupid athletes with "team" skills are not contributing to the world. They don't invent things, they aren't creating businesses, leading corporations, making a difference - they are just louts and followers, drinkers and philanderers. Maybe you like them so you can boss them around - maybe that's the "team" aspect.

Exercise is good, and goals are good. But after 4-5 hours per week, high school athletics are just making kids less educated, less prepared, less well-read. And that's why the world's more focused students are starting to eat our lunch.

If you got C's, I'm not going to hire you. If you got B's, I don't want you either.

And there's a new study, by the way, that says extroverts are not the best sales people. So don't bother with that argument.

Signed, 
99+ percentile, 3 Ivy degrees, executive[/quote]
I know many who will not hire Ivies undergrads. The sense of entitlement and lack of understanding anything out of their small circle is crippling. PS "stupid athletes" do invent things, they creating businesses, leading corporations, making a difference. In fact a lot of non Ivies do the same. You sound very bitter. Do you work for someone below your station or class?[/quote]

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