Imagine being in college and not taking any classes.<\/p>\n
PublishedJanuary 18, 2026 2:50 PM EST\u2022UpdatedJanuary 18, 2026 2:17 PM EST<\/p>\n
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Some college athletes can do it all on the field and in the classroom. But for the past two years, Miami Hurricanes<\/a> signal-caller Carson Beck<\/a> hasn\u2019t been able to \u2014 because he hasn\u2019t had to.<\/p>\n On Monday night, Beck will play the final game of his college career in the CFP national title game against the Indiana Hoosiers. He will cap off a stellar career in which he posted stellar numbers at both Miami and Georgia.<\/p>\n But while his football career will get its curtain call in just over 24 hours, his academic career concluded about two years ago.<\/p>\n Don’t believe me? Hear it from the quarterback himself.<\/p>\n “No class. I graduated two years ago,” Beck said when asked if he had a class before the natty.<\/p>\n Okay, so that\u2019s problematic for obvious reasons.<\/p>\n If an athlete is going to be playing in\u00a0college,\u00a0where academics are at least somewhat of a priority in football, then it would follow that he should be taking classes. But not taking one in two years? That\u2019s absurd.<\/p>\n And I\u2019m not the only one who thinks so.<\/p>\n College basketball is broken in many ways. Chasing money through NIL only amplifies the selfishness of players. You have guys playing six years of their specific sport. And now you have guys who can play for two years without being in a classroom? That\u2019s absurd.<\/p>\n At least Hurricanes fans won\u2019t have to worry about Beck prioritizing a paper deadline over the game tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagine being in college and not taking any classes. PublishedJanuary 18, 2026 2:50 PM EST\u2022UpdatedJanuary 18, 2026 2:17…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-416546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}