Kanye West has been within the Tom Cruise Bat-shit Crazy Celebrity Zone for thus lengthy that it’s been renamed the Ye Bat-shit Crazy Celebrity Zone. I’m assuming you’ve learn the anti-semitic statements by now, and noticed that Jaylen Brown and Aaron Donald — like most each different sane particular person/firm — reduce ties with Donda Sports. Some would say “too little, too late,” whereas Carron J. Phillips would say “never should have,” however there are nonetheless livelihoods at stake as a result of they have been offered snake oil at $15,000 a 12 months for tuition.
The Donda Academy was closed for the varsity 12 months, efficient instantly, for like two seconds Wednesday, however introduced it’s reopening “with a vengeance” round midnight. Who the hell is aware of what meaning. Regardless, the futures of highschool athletes who signed on to chase hopes of a professional hoops profession on the “school” are actually in flux. The New York Times reported that two tournaments scheduled to host the high-profile “academy” dropped the workforce from its checklist of members, and now the scholars’ mother and father are contemplating choices not related to West.
Before I proceed, I put “academy” in citation marks as a result of usually you’d like your faculty to be accredited — and have a campus. This line from the NYT story had me fucking dying.
“[Ye] used his star power — and promises of jetting players around the country for high-profile games — to lure elite talent throughout the nation to an apartment complex that served as their base for basketball and a nonaccredited curriculum that was built around online learning.”
So, the Donda Academy is as a lot of a faculty as Jay-Z’s School of Hard Knocks? Got it. Well at the very least transferring shouldn’t be an issue for the 2 highest-ranked prospects in Robert Dillingham and A.J. Johnson. Overtime Elite, the basketball improvement group with big-name backers like Drake, Jeff Bezos, and a pair dozen NBA gamers, is predicted to pursue Dillingham, who’s at present dedicated to Kentucky, and the undeclared Johnson.
The future may be far murkier for the much less heralded gamers although. Diana Cooper and Vantik Loury, moms of Donda enrollees J.J. Taylor, the Forty fifth-ranked basketball prospect in 2023, and Davius Loury, No. 145 on Rivals.com, expressed considerations to the Times over Ye, however had but to talk to their youngsters. (My guess is that’s modified for the reason that information got here out.) Both J.J. and Davius relocated from Chicago to attend the Simi Valley campus/condo advanced in California, and now lessons are oscillating between persevering with and being canceled as a lot as its founder.
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An email was sent to parents of the school’s students Thursday saying “Donda Academy will close for the remainder of the 2022-2023 school year effective immediately … THERE IS NO SCHOOL TOMORROW.”
If that isn’t the most depressing school cancellation announcement I’ve ever read. Be that as it may, the never-ending snow day was cut short after an announcement overruling the previous one was sent out at about midnight Wednesday, per TMZ.
The e mail learn partly:
“Dear Parents and Staff,
Join us tomorrow morning in worship for the return of Donda Academy. With the help of our parents and community, we are back with a vengeance!
The children of Donda are going to change the world.
Apologies for the late email!
See you bright and early!”
I concern to think about what on-line curriculum these children are studying/uncovered to contemplating the entire thing feels like Trump University blended with Camp Nowhere. Only as an alternative of unsympathetic yokels and spoiled children getting bilked out of cash, alternative, and development, it’s actual life children with (hopefully nonetheless) brilliant futures left questioning what to do subsequent. And they need to be questioning that, as a result of dropping out is the one logical subsequent step.
We’d all prefer to consider we’d be resistant to Ye’s recruiting pitch, however his immense reputation and cultural standing was (and, sadly, would possibly nonetheless be) extremely enticing to impressionable youth, so it’s simple to see why they’d signal on the dotted line. (I retain the correct to alter my thoughts if it comes out that the pinnacle of Donda Sports and problematic fuck wit, Antonio Brown, tagged alongside on the in-home recruiting visits.)
A big portion of America’s inhabitants was unable to separate the person from his music whereas he was flirting with being canceled. Ye was enabled to proceed on as an icon even after a litany of harmful outbursts and opinions, and it’s gotten to the purpose the place he was given the good thing about the doubt regardless of the complete management panel flashing warning indicators.
There are like 1,700 morals to this story, however I’m not going to inform a bunch of children “I told you so” (I’d say it to their mother and father), so I’ll simply depart it at, “Please, fuck off, Kanye.”