Buduski is a student at St. Thomas. His PE teacher Derek Bagg has it out for him because he considers Buduski an unathletic egghead who has "no stroke from the outside" and "no chance to make the pros". When Buduski gives Derek a memo to approve, the mostly illiterate Derek angrily refuses to read it in front of him and orders him to do 50 push-ups, to which Buduski obliges.