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Whatever happened to College athletes being ruled Academically Ineligible for games ?
Posted on 11/1/25 at 9:14 am
Posted on 11/1/25 at 9:14 am
That used to be a real thing back in the day.
Not so much in the SEC, but it was in the Big10 & Notre Dame.
Are academic requirements a thing of the past ?
Have they stopped pretending that athletes are students ?
Not so much in the SEC, but it was in the Big10 & Notre Dame.
Are academic requirements a thing of the past ?
Have they stopped pretending that athletes are students ?
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Posted on 11/1/25 at 9:18 am to Your QB1
Good point. You never seem to hear anything about that. I wonder whether these paid mercenaries are even students anymore.
Posted on 11/1/25 at 9:19 am to Your QB1
The infrastructure now makes it almost impossible for athletes to frick up that badly.
Posted on 11/1/25 at 9:21 am to Your QB1
A lot of professors would get in hot water for failing a star player and holding them out of a key game.
Posted on 11/1/25 at 9:28 am to oliveandblue
I know for a fact that back in the day some GA was going to fail OBJ in English for literally not doing anything in the class and they shite canned the GA when they got wind of it 
Posted on 11/1/25 at 9:28 am to Your QB1
They ain't there to play school
Posted on 11/1/25 at 9:41 am to T1gerNate
quote:
for a fact that back in the day some GA was going to fail OBJ in English for literally not doing anything in the class and they shite canned the GA when they got wind of it
Kinda pathetic when you think about it
Posted on 11/1/25 at 9:42 am to SpartyGator
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They ain't there to play school
Then we should move to a club system like in Europe.
Posted on 11/1/25 at 9:54 am to Your QB1
The 2019 Natty was almost a disaster
4 game changing players were ineligible after the fall semester. They had to take intercession classes in order to pass the required number of classes by the NCAA
4 game changing players were ineligible after the fall semester. They had to take intercession classes in order to pass the required number of classes by the NCAA
Posted on 11/1/25 at 10:01 am to Tigeralum2008
they dont even go to class, everything is online, this has been happening for years.
Posted on 11/1/25 at 10:27 am to T1gerNate
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know for a fact that back in the day some GA was going to fail OBJ in English for literally not doing anything in the class and they shite canned the GA when they got wind of it
That’s actually not funny at all.
Posted on 11/1/25 at 10:50 am to Your QB1
Too much money involved now for a pencil pusher to keep a player out.
Posted on 11/1/25 at 10:56 am to T1gerNate
quote:
I know for a fact that back in the day some GA was going to fail OBJ in English for literally not doing anything in the class and they shite canned the GA when they got wind of it
You would think that a guy who went to Newman could be bothered to get through his classes at LSU. Guess not.
Posted on 11/1/25 at 10:58 am to SloaneRanger
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Good point. You never seem to hear anything about that. I wonder whether these paid mercenaries are even students anymore.
This is why I truly believe within a decade schools are going to completely drop the attending class requirement. If they're getting paid millions to play football, why make them attend freshman English?
I always get shite on but the facade that was already hanging on by a thread has been totally abandoned these days, it's only a matter of time before schools agree to stop pretending.
Posted on 11/1/25 at 11:04 am to SloaneRanger
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You would think that a guy who went to Newman could be bothered to get through his classes at LSU. Guess not.
Maybe the big high schools are doing that now… Tommy Henry was ahead of his time calling them “sports camps”
Posted on 11/1/25 at 11:09 am to T1gerNate
They're lucky the guy didn't shoot up the athletic department tbh
Posted on 11/1/25 at 11:15 am to Thundercles
quote:I was always against the athletic departments splitting off and becoming private entities, but I’m kind of changing my tune after the LSU governor debacle.
the facade that was already hanging on by a thread has been totally abandoned these days, it's only a matter of time before schools agree to stop pretending.
Posted on 11/1/25 at 11:25 am to Your QB1
I’m so old I remember prop 48
Posted on 11/1/25 at 11:46 am to LordSaintly
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Kinda pathetic when you think about it
Why???… I know it’s cliche but the guys here to “play football not school”…
they just had to pay 54 million for someone to not do their job… damn some professor interfering with a player who makes more than they do behind some meaningless test(sarcasm kinda)
Posted on 11/1/25 at 11:46 am to Your QB1
I remember tutoring an LSU defensive player (LL) back in the summer of 04 in an introductory to Social Work class.
Homeboy went from the cusps to failing to a high C or low B
I took coaching football class with Nader and Tim Pope was in it, dude had a D in the midterm. Pretty sure he’s in the Florida DOC now
You don’t hear shite about academics
Homeboy went from the cusps to failing to a high C or low B
I took coaching football class with Nader and Tim Pope was in it, dude had a D in the midterm. Pretty sure he’s in the Florida DOC now
You don’t hear shite about academics
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