NCSUMEB
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Every BCS conf. football team seems to have at least 1-3 academic casualties per year, just the nature of the beast, except UNC. For anyone to think that they recruit "more responsible" athletes, or that their coaches are on their players tail every hour, is flat out wrong (let's look over the last three years for character). Form your own conclusions about how they manage to have high grad rates. I say "more responsible" because intelligence has very little to do with getting a college degree if you play football for a BCS conf. team. You have tutors at your 24/7 disposal, and desginated study halls when you are a frosh, and I won't get into the cirriculum that athletes study (JayWill 99 hours and graduated). If you are literate, show up to class, and turn in every assignment, regardless of intelligence, most prof's would give you a C (and somtimes higher), or whatever is the minimum requirement. I'd be curious to hear of an athlete who achieved the listed criteria and still couldn't get the 2.0, and I'm not talking about the athletes for Harvard, Yale, etc. However, this does not excuse our under 70%, just pointing out that other schools aren't the success stories these stats make them out to be.
[Edited on May 24, 2006 at 12:48 AM. Reason : .]  5/24/2006 12:45:38 AM
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knitchic
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| Quote : | | "I'd be curious to hear of an athlete who achieved the listed criteria and still couldn't get the 2.0, and I'm not talking about the athletes for Harvard, Yale, etc." |
Totally unrelated factoid: The Ivy League does not give out athletic scholarships. Their teams are simply kids who were smart enough to get in and wanted to continue to play after high school. Which is why they're mad competitive in fencing and crew...but you don't really hear about them in the sports other schools give out $texas for.5/24/2006 10:40:24 PM |
