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re: NCAA D1 requires you maintain a 1.8 GPA
Posted on 1/11/22 at 3:35 pm to Purple Spoon
Posted on 1/11/22 at 3:35 pm to Purple Spoon
quote:Why should a top prospect care about GPA?
If you can’t get a 2.3 with endless resources, supervision and tutors you really don’t give a shite
They go to college to play a sport.
We need to move beyond the farcical idea that is the “student athlete”.
This post was edited on 1/11/22 at 3:39 pm
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Posted on 1/11/22 at 3:51 pm to ColdTurkey
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Hopefully CBK will find a few diamonds in the rough in the portal and freshmen and sophs will step up.
if you dig a little bit into CBK's tenure at Notre Dame - you will see that all he found were SMART diamonds in the rough that he coached into NFL prospects + Academic All American + Honor Roll Students AT NOTRE DAME, mind you. Guys who never sniffed the ESPN Top 300 List in their respective classes.
If you don't think he can bring those types of guys here who have the right brains + work ethic - then IDK what to tell you about your outlook on what's coming. He's going to flip the culture at LSU at least 110 degrees, not a full 180, because let's be realistic - he's still going to bring in plenty of DUDES. But the back bone of the culture will be the right guys. Let him show you. LSU already stroked the check. Might as well enjoy the ride. Sure beats the alternative.
Posted on 1/11/22 at 3:58 pm to GeauxD7
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With all the resources athletes have at colleges, there’s zero reason you can’t maintain academically eligible.
zero?
they do not all get dealt the cards you hold.
one element is the capacity to self discipline.
another is the anti academic culture in northern cities blacks.
somehow they gave up.
so they browbeat kids against study and really, conformity.
This post was edited on 1/11/22 at 4:06 pm
Posted on 1/11/22 at 4:09 pm to GeauxD7
quote:Nothing you said is wrong
If you can’t maintain a 1.8 GPA, that is the players fault and no one else’s.
With all the resources athletes have at colleges, there’s zero reason you can’t maintain academically eligible.
But it’s so easy to get a 1.8 that we should probably be more compassionate towards the ones who don’t achieve it.
There is something alarmingly wrong for those who can’t manage a 1.8.
Lets not bury them.
Posted on 1/11/22 at 4:56 pm to ReauxlTide222
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There is something alarmingly wrong for those who can’t manage a 1.8
Yeah, alarmingly LAZY
Posted on 1/11/22 at 5:06 pm to jiffyjohnson
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posters are saying he was late for meetings and acted like he didnt give a shite about it and he is being shown the door
A RB got kicked off the team at UW midseason for this. Was a decent to good player but didn't want to put in the work. Felt he should be gifted #1 on the depth chart.
Posted on 1/11/22 at 5:08 pm to Tigear
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if you dig a little bit into CBK's tenure at Notre Dame - you will see that all he found were SMART diamonds in the rough that he coached into NFL prospects + Academic All American + Honor Roll Students AT NOTRE DAME, mind you. Guys who never sniffed the ESPN Top 300 List in their respective classes.
Kelly had to bring in sharp guys at ND as they don't get a lighter class load during football season.
Posted on 1/11/22 at 5:12 pm to Scruffy
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Why should a top prospect care about GPA?
Not everyone wants to work shift work in a plant for the rest of their life bro.
If I have to explain this to you, which I’m not, you must really be a dumbass
Posted on 1/11/22 at 5:33 pm to GeauxD7
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Not everyone wants to work shift work in a plant for the rest of their life bro.
If I have to explain this to you, which I’m not, you must really be a dumbass
These prospects aren’t going to college for a degree.
They are going for the minor league sports.
No one seems to care about the basketball players that leave after one year.
This post was edited on 1/11/22 at 5:49 pm
Posted on 1/11/22 at 6:14 pm to GeauxD7
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If you can’t maintain a 1.8 GPA, that is the players fault and no one else’s.
For reference
One semester I intended to drop a class but forgot to actually drop it and just stopped going. Naturally I failed the class but my gpa for that semester was still above a 1.8. Getting a 1.8 is kinda hard to do, especially with freshman / sophomore level classes.
Posted on 1/11/22 at 7:14 pm to Scruffy
quote:
Why should a top prospect care about GPA?
They go to college to play a sport.
We need to move beyond the farcical idea that is the “student athlete”.
Because we live in a society with rules, and collegiate sports is an entity within that society that has very firm rules.
If they don't wanna go to class, they can try their hand at USFL or XFL.
Posted on 1/11/22 at 8:08 pm to wadewilson
quote:Those rules are as nebulously applied as any others that exist.
Because we live in a society with rules, and collegiate sports is an entity within that society that has very firm rules.
NIL and the transfer portal has also thrown those “rules” out the window.
These players aren’t student athletes anymore.
They are minor leaguers, and we should start viewing them as such.
What is the difference between a basketball player with a 0.5 GPA who leaves for the NBA after one year and a football player with a 0.5 GPA who leaves after 3 years for the NFL?
Nothing.
The NCAA just arbitrarily decided that it was one year for basketball and 3 for the NFL.
People need to stop deluding themselves.
This isn’t the College Football of the past.
The culture has changed.
It is even more of a minor league now than it ever was in the past.
It is time that people accepted that.
This post was edited on 1/11/22 at 8:16 pm
Posted on 1/11/22 at 8:22 pm to Scruffy
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The NCAA just arbitrarily decided that it was one year for basketball and 3 for the NFL.
Ummm... the respective professional leagues decided that, not the ncaa.
Posted on 1/11/22 at 8:31 pm to MoarKilometers
quote:Fine.
Ummm... the respective professional leagues decided that, not the ncaa.
They created it.
That doesn’t negate a single one of my other points.
Hell, it’s just one more piece that shows that it is nothing more than a minor league for the pros, more so than ever before.
It is truly an amazing setup, that baseball somehow missed out on to a degree.
The NFL and NBA (although more have chosen to enter the G league) get minor leagues they don’t have to pay for, but they completely control.
This post was edited on 1/11/22 at 8:32 pm
Posted on 1/11/22 at 8:51 pm to Scruffy
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That doesn’t negate a single one of my other points.
A 3rd year football player isn't gonna be in school for year 3 with a 0.5 gpa either
This post was edited on 1/11/22 at 8:52 pm
Posted on 1/11/22 at 8:51 pm to Scruffy
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What is the difference between a basketball player with a 0.5 GPA who leaves for the NBA after one year and a football player with a 0.5 GPA who leaves after 3 years for the NFL?
Because, wait for it- you have to have a certain GPA to be eligible to play college football.
So, yes, you can sign a kid to your team that has to make his mark on the LOI because he can't sign his name, but he won't be playing in years 2 and 3.
Posted on 1/11/22 at 9:07 pm to LSUsuperfresh
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can't fathom being a general studies major and not being able to sleepwalk into a 2.0+. The only way it's possible would be that you're A) dumb as rocks AND B) don't give a shite. Plus, don't they only have to take 12 hours
Sure but don't even General Studies majors eventually have to take core curriculum (english,math,science) eventually?
Posted on 1/12/22 at 1:02 am to GeauxD7
I graduated with a 2.13 never went to any classes and did my weight in cocaine.
If I can do it, any one can.
If I can do it, any one can.
Posted on 1/12/22 at 1:23 am to GeauxD7
Coupled with some Universities are just athletic mills and don't rank in the Top 100 academic schools.
As Andy Katzenmoyer said 25 years ago, I'm here to play football not go to class.
Georgia was the first University ranked in the Top 50 to win the National Title in about 15 years since USC.
Alabama has owned CFB and they rank #148. Coincidence?
As Andy Katzenmoyer said 25 years ago, I'm here to play football not go to class.
Georgia was the first University ranked in the Top 50 to win the National Title in about 15 years since USC.
Alabama has owned CFB and they rank #148. Coincidence?
This post was edited on 1/12/22 at 1:25 am
Posted on 1/12/22 at 2:26 am to GeauxD7
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