A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

AND FOR THE FINAL QUESTION, I TELL YOU WHAT, JUST WRITE A NUMBER. ANY NUMBER, ANY NUMBER AND YOU PASS. WE'LL ACCEPT ANY NUMBER, ANY NUMBER AT ALL . . . A ONE, OR A TWO, OR A THREE, OR HOW ABOUT A FOUR? IT'S THAT SIMPLE, I KNOW YOU CAN DO THIS: It's usually easy, and not much fun, to make fun of the academic shenanagans that go on in big-time college athletics.

Still, former University of Georgia assistant men's basketball coach Jim Harrick Jr.'s final exam in his Fall 2001 Coaching Principles and Strategies of Basketball class really sets some kind of new standard revealing harsh bigotry of zero expectations.

Among the questions given to the "student athletes" in the class, in the multiple-choice format as shown:

5. How many halves are in a college basketball game?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4

8. How many points does a 3-point field goal account for in a Basketball Game?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4

20. In your opinion, who is the best Division I assistant coach in the country?
a. Ron Jursa (sic)
b. John Pelphrey
c. Jim Harrick Jr.
d. Steve Wojciechowski

All 39 students in the class received A's.