I'm not sure how many of you know this, but college athletes at big time schools get a lot of chicks. Shocking, I know. But it's not all fun and games, people. Some of these ladies are a tad aggressive, and there's an ugly side to the game. Fortunately for us, Jordan Farmar, the Lakers guard who went to UCLA, is now doing a blog for Playboy and he's more than happy to inform us of how this dangerous game of athlete and hot stalkerish groupie works. Take it away Jordan:
UCLA has a lot of beautiful girls, including their cheerleaders. And female fans' attention is part of the life on campus, and it's all good. You're young, you're doing what you love and you get attention from girls and everyone else, 'cause they all know who you are. So it's nice when girls give you that attention. But sometimes, the girls and fans can get a little pushy. You know how I am, I'm real low-key. I moved off campus my second year, so I'd just go to class and practice ...
Groupies are always part of campus life and it's something you have to watch out for. Girls used to come to our dorm room all the time, knocking on our door, leaving off notes and propositions. I was rooming with Josh Shipp, who's still on the Bruins team. When we came in, we were all playing, all young, new on campus and girls would come in wanting to see you. They know all your stats, your personal info, where you're from, they've Googled you. It's crazy how they know you in and out.
And you get some invasion of privacy, like I said, they're knocking on your door, all the time. There's no secret where you're staying when you're living on campus. Most freshman and sometimes sophomores stay on campus, so they're the ones getting hit on. Hey, if that's what you want, that's cool. But as you get older, as things get more serious about a possible pro career, you move off. Until then, there's notes and cards under the door, gifts, Valentine's Day-grams, all kinds of stuff. Girls in the stands are wearing your jersey with writing asking you to marry them. Anything you can think of, it happens.
Groupies are always part of campus life and it's something you have to watch out for. Girls used to come to our dorm room all the time, knocking on our door, leaving off notes and propositions. I was rooming with Josh Shipp, who's still on the Bruins team. When we came in, we were all playing, all young, new on campus and girls would come in wanting to see you. They know all your stats, your personal info, where you're from, they've Googled you. It's crazy how they know you in and out.
And you get some invasion of privacy, like I said, they're knocking on your door, all the time. There's no secret where you're staying when you're living on campus. Most freshman and sometimes sophomores stay on campus, so they're the ones getting hit on. Hey, if that's what you want, that's cool. But as you get older, as things get more serious about a possible pro career, you move off. Until then, there's notes and cards under the door, gifts, Valentine's Day-grams, all kinds of stuff. Girls in the stands are wearing your jersey with writing asking you to marry them. Anything you can think of, it happens.
Yes, who in their right mind would want hot 20-year-old women at their beck and call every hour of the day? Not me. Not Jordan Farmar. And trust me, I know. I remember that when I was an athlete at a small D-III college in Massachusetts, we had similar problems as well, that is if you replace the hot girls with no girls at all.
But Farmar's admission actually makes perfect sense. There are a lot of pitfalls on the road to becoming a pro athlete, and plenty of opportunities to fall into them. It takes a pretty impressive level of committment and dedication to make it that far, and sometimes saying no to things that are awful tempting.
Although all that said, the man's now doing a blog for Playboy. Nice work Jordan, nice work indeed.
Jordan Farmar Blog [Playboy] via [With Leather]
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