Coach Jim Calhoun is dealing with more potential scandal surrounding his championship hoops program. This time, as opposed to recruiting violations, Calhoun is answering questions regarding his teams academic performance. The questions have become hotter after Kemba Walker had a little verbal diarrhea.
As Tim Layden of SI wrote;
…in his travel pack is a copy of New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden’sForty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete, a book that Crump encouraged Walker to read as part of an independent study class on racism in sports. Before the Final Four, Crump suggested that Rhoden’s book would be the first that Walker had ever made it through cover-to-cover. After the win over Kentucky, Walker confirmed this. “That’s true,” he said. “You can write that. It is the first book I’ve ever read.”
The guy who graduated in three years only read one book and it was in an independent study class? That means that in the dozens and dozens of other required classes, Kemba read a grand total of zero books.
