Word: jock
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...Tuke is not the Ron Patimkin-type jock that one assumes comes out of the Buckeye State like bottles at a beer factory, but rather a kind of model of the down-to-earth Midwesterner. He came to Harvard four years ago possibly to pursue a collegiate football career, and not be pursued...
...People told me students would be apathetic at Harvard, but Jesus...I'm 6' 10" and no one knew that I played basketball!! There are a lot of negative things here for athletes. The big, dumb jock image is a classic mockery. People say, "ugh, you sweat...
...sports movies. With a very few exceptions, these films don't aim at bringing any important theme to an audience. In an era of incredibly mindless films, sports movies remain in the fore of anti-intellectualism. The people who go to these films have to be sports fans, and jock-sniffers as a general rule aren't very concerned with internal meanings, just the final score...
Benson, who doesn't even look like a jock, plays a heavily recruited high school hoop star who chooses fictional Western University in Los Angeles, a perennial basketball power. Any parallels to UCLA, it seems, are purely intentional. The coach, played by one W.D. Spradlin, even clutches a rolled-up program during games, a quirk college hoop fans will immediately recognize as the trademark of John Wooden, UCLA's fabled Wizard of Westwood...
...scene in which he is ripped off by a comely hitchhiker), the naive hero quickly finds out the truth about intercollegiate sports in the big time. He is given a cushy job watching grass grow in a stadium, slipped a lot of cash by an alumnus, introduced to the jock party scene complete with willing coeds and exposed to a maniacal head coach who has to have things his way. Things do not go well, alas. The coach doesn't like his style of play and waxes antagonistic, finally having him beaten on the court, ostensibly to teach...