Steelers Trade WR Diontae Johnson to Carolina Panthers

[BlackAndGold]

I would be very surprised if they brought back DJ.

[hawaiiansteeler]

I would be very surprised if they brought back DJ.

Me too, I doubt that anyone in the Steelers locker room or organization wants to ever see him in the Black & Gold again..

[tube517]

Me too, I doubt that anyone in the Steelers locker room or organization wants to ever see him in the Black & Gold again..

Especially Minkah

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[86WARD]

Me too, I doubt that anyone in the Steelers locker room or organization wants to ever see him in the Black & Gold again..

I highly doubt he would return to Pittsburgh as a rostered player.

[DesertSteel]

Me too, I doubt that anyone in the Steelers locker room or organization wants to ever see him in the Black & Gold again..

[Mojouw]

It would be the MOST Mike Tomlin thing ever to bring DJ back and have it have like zero impact until DJ catches the game winning TD as time expires in a playoff game.

I am not saying that this will happen....but it would be on brand.

[86WARD]

It would be the MOST Mike Tomlin thing ever to bring DJ back and have it have like zero impact until DJ catches the game winning TD as time expires in a playoff game.

I am not saying that this will happen....but it would be on brand.

QFT…

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[86WARD]

They don’t want to release him because they know Mike T will pick him up.

[cubanstogie]

Refused to enter game. At least he dressed, lol.

[EzraTank]

Agreed. My areas is pretty similar.

College majors are totally miscast when colleges and universities talk to prospective students and potential employers of their graduates about them.

The point of higher education is not to teach you all there is to know about a specific subject - say biology - that is not possible. It is to provide you the tools and skills to learn what you need to know moving forward about anything with a focused background in a specific area (stick with biology in this example).

Most employers are not really going to care what you learned about Biology from Regional University. They are going to teach/train you in what they want you to know how they want you to know it. You just have to be able to pick up the material quickly and proficiently.

My continual frustation is how that message has failed to come through to prospective students, their families, and potential employers. It is currently the single biggest reason for higher ed going broke. College is not specific career training. That is an apprenticeship or a tech school. College is to train you on how to learn. Then you have to apply those skills to a career.

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It sure does.

Of course, Mike Williams will have 2 TDs in a playoff game now.

Trust me, I know all this. I work at any Ivy in the computer science department. The problem is that universities are going too woke and pumping kids' heads with what to think and not how to think. Most of these kids come out with no viable learning skills, as you said. Then, on top of it, they are saddling kids with hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt in degrees that provide nothing for them but a job working at Starbucks.

Back when I got my undergraduate degree in computer science my school was less then $10k per year.

[Mojouw]

Trust me, I know all this. I work at any Ivy in the computer science department. The problem is that universities are going too woke and pumping kids' heads with what to think and not how to think. Most of these kids come out with no viable learning skills, as you said. Then, on top of it, they are saddling kids with hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt in degrees that provide nothing for them but a job working at Starbucks.

Back when I got my undergraduate degree in computer science my school was less then $10k per year.

Working at an Ivy sounds like it sucks. Seriously. Working across the midwest at different universities and there is very little of what you describe. Almost everything was done with an eye towards skills like critical thinking, information synthesis, researching new topics, etc. Biggest issue was that students saw zero value in those kind of "soft" or intangible/unquantifiable skills. They only wanted specific things that could be quantified to a prospective employer.

Again, for me, that is a technical or training school. Which is an excellent path to go down. But it is not what made higher ed at liberal arts oriented schools in America the envy of the world. While that has slipped, it has not gone away entirely. Hopefully higher ed can pull its collective ass out of its collective hindparts and figure out how to explain the value of that traditional model of education to a new generation of consumers.

If they don't....they will be mostly gone in 10 years.

[El Kabong]

Working at an Ivy sounds like it sucks. Seriously. Working across the midwest at different universities and there is very little of what you describe. Almost everything was done with an eye towards skills like critical thinking, information synthesis, researching new topics, etc. Biggest issue was that students saw zero value in those kind of "soft" or intangible/unquantifiable skills. They only wanted specific things that could be quantified to a prospective employer.

Again, for me, that is a technical or training school. Which is an excellent path to go down. But it is not what made higher ed at liberal arts oriented schools in America the envy of the world. While that has slipped, it has not gone away entirely. Hopefully higher ed can pull its collective ass out of its collective hindparts and figure out how to explain the value of that traditional model of education to a new generation of consumers.

If they don't....they will be mostly gone in 10 years.

My experience with seeking jobs is that employers nowadays don't want to train anyone, they want you to already have experience with exactly what they do.

[Mojouw]

My experience with seeking jobs is that employers nowadays don't want to train anyone, they want you to already have experience with exactly what they do.

Fair. And that sucks. Because it means employers just want cookbook training schools that give you a recipe to follow but zero ability to innovate or assimilate new information. Which is (supposedly) the entire purpose of a degree.

So now your industry changes and your workforce is flat footed. It’s shortsighted thinking. But also the reality of profit margins. There’s no good solution.

I had a relative that worked for a massive global chemical company and they said the transition from “we want you to know how to learn and we’ll train” to “we want you to be ready to produce” was a giant drag on production over the long term.

I’m likely not explaining this welll.