re: Colorado’s transfer rules will be a major hurdle for Coach Prime

I found this. Looks like they are open to change. But you can’t add degree programs overnight.

Looks like all the chancellor promised was an expedited review of transfers, not any added majors or lowered standards.


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Two months ago, when CU fired former head football coach, Karl Dorrell, Chancellor Phil Distefano said CU likely wouldn't change its policy to attract more athletes.

"It's just based upon the degrees we offer," he said in a press conference back in October. "We do not have physical education here, and we do not have general education, and to be honest, that's not going to change."

However, with new head football coach Deion Sanders being introduced in a press conference Sunday, DiStefano seemed ready to shake things up.

"We're working to give coach and all of his student-athletes the stools they need to succeed," Distefano said.

He announced the institution updating its transfer credit review processes. The school is implementing a program that will provide an expedited assessment of transferability of academic credits from other institutions to be accepted at CU Boulder.

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He announced the institution updating its transfer credit review processes. The school is implementing a program that will provide an expedited assessment of transferability of academic credits from other institutions to be accepted at CU Boulder.

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I bet this will annoy the frick out of their Liberal, tree-hugging faculty.

And I'm on board for it all.

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And the way that faculty own the curriculum, they own the degrees

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This quote from the chancellor in the OP is the one Deion and any CU football fan should be concerned about. He’s basically saying that he can’t change the curriculums or the degrees. Those are in the hands of the professors.

All he can do is enact some administrative changes like expediting transcript evaluations.

While it looks like people are expecting an immediate revamp of their system, there is no evidence that is happening.

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But you can’t add degree programs overnight.

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This implies that top players are going to school for degrees. Is it really that big of a deal to a player that is potentially NFL-bound, if it'll take another year to graduate, or that he won't have a degree after his senior year?

For some, sure but most kids transferring to CU are doing so for football reasons and nothing else.

The top programs in the Pac 12 are leaving. He should do ok in a watered down conference.

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Most other schools, including most of the AAU schools CU likes to associate itself with, do have general studies and/or integrated studies degrees. As a result, transferring between those schools much easier easy, as they offer many of the same courses.
Simply put, CU doesn’t offer certain programs that are popular among student-athletes.

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America would be better off if no school offered worthless degrees like that.

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This implies that top players are going to school for degrees. Is it really that big of a deal to a player that is potentially NFL-bound, if it'll take another year to graduate, or that he won't have a degree after his senior year?

For some, sure but most kids transferring to CU are doing so for football reasons and nothing else.

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That's not how it works. Many schools only allow transfers in with a certain amount of credits toward a degree. So if someone is a PE major or Psych major they have to have say 15 credits as a freshmen transfer and 60 credits as a Junior transfer into a certain program.

The point of this is that a degree like PE or Journalism generally has something like 50 elective hours, to allow it to both be a joke degree but also to allow a bunch of different career paths.

What this is saying is that Colorado doesn't have any degrees with a lot of elective hours and their transfer rules in are strict on their requirements.

So while the admins may be able to fast track the human involvement, these players still have to be able to "find" a degree their transcript qualifies for. That may be very difficult at Colorado.

The fact are though that that's a very outdated policy and creating a degree for student athletes under something like journalism, PE, etc. would be very easy to have one or two departments do and they could fairly easily throw a mil or $2 around to get it done yesterday even at a super lib college.

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They are paying almost 6M per year with a 5M assistant

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Exactly. CU has turned the corner when it comes to support of the football team by the administration. You don’t throw that cash out if not so.

Hell that’s more than the majority of SEC coaches.

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The top programs in the Pac 12 are leaving. He should do ok in a watered down conference.

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If Prime isn't PAC. Then who is?

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Not really. If you listen to the entire thing he's talking about everyone getting on board w/a new program and if they can't do that they should go which is fairly standard coach speak. Not really the same as telling them all to GTFO

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He quite literally said that he’s ready for them to hit the portal because the more of them that leave, the more of his own transfers he can bring in. That whole auditorium is filled with worthless scrubs. Who would want to build a program with that as the foundation?