The unusual bowling in college story

Did you watch the Tennessee Volunteers upset #3 Pittsburgh in college basket ball on Saturday, December 11? It pains me as an alum of the Memphis Tigers to see Tennessee do well in basketball. One player on Tennessee's roster was not eligible for this game. He is forward Jeronne Maymon. Maymon transferred to Tennessee from Marquette. Maymon is ready to join the team after sitting out his NCAA mandated year due to transfer. However, he was not cleared to play because he was still waiting on one class to post his grade. That class was bowling.

Maymon took and says he passed five classes in the fall semester; the final grade he's waiting to get posted and make his eligibility official is a bowling class that ended in October.

Please, no jock jokes on types of classes. I took bowling as a PE class at Memphis State in 1983. Yes, it was an easy A. I knew how to keep score. I knew the history of the American Bowling Congress. I was already a 185-190 average bowler, so averaging a 130 in class for an A was a piece of cake. Besides trying to boost my GPA with an already loaded engineering curriculum, I now had practice time. The Tennessee state tournament was going to be held in Memphis that year. One of the houses hosting the tournament was also the house hosting the bowling PE class. I had a whole semester of practice at the tournament host site for no charge. Well, there was a charge. It was buried in my tuition.

That kind of rationalization can still work today. I see businesses doing corporate outings for team building exercises. Maybe I can organize a team building event at the local bowling center hosting the city tournament this year.