Bull****. Academic status amongst the rest of the student body is one thing. Noone cares how many football players you graduate. Pretty sure ball players already get exceptions regular students don't. You think someone is getting into UM with a core 2.3 gpa (i believe this is what a player needs) if they can't play ball?
Right and it won;t make one ounce of difference in UM's academic ranking, standing or reputation if those standards were lowered to the NCAA minimum
You may care but be prepared then to suck forever and don't **** and moan at our irrelevance on the football field. I didn't attend UM and don't have a vested interest in it's academic rep. I'm just a life long fan. The only time UM's academic prominence comes in handy for me is when I get shut up a trash talking fan of another team who think UM takes anyone and everyone. As a fan, I have the luxury of not caring if a player can read as long as he performs on the field. The people who run the university, and have a vested interest in it being a top tier academic institute, are not going to feel the same way. UM is a school, it's primary business is education, not football.
UM is a business and so is football. A very lucrative one in fact. It makes no sense to hinder one part of your business that can only positively affect the school as a whole money wise and will not have one iota of impact on its academic reputation. I understand your point. I say that the school's assumptions that student athlete graduation rates have any significant impact on their school's reputation and its approach of raising admission standards to "improve" the quality of student athlete football player are both false. Your statement is a perfect example the average "trash talking fan of another team who thinks Um takes anyone and everyone" still exists.
But like I said before. Not all the kids we are denying are bad kids or have a poor work ethic. We are closing the door on some kids that could very well succeed in the right course of study at UM. We are sometimes punishing these kids for a failed public school system and that's something that they cannot control. ****ty school system or not, It takes very little effort to maintain a core 2.3 gpa.
Its not as easy at it seems when from elementary you've been receiving a poor educational foundation in school environments that do not emphasize its importance, especially when you are raised in the kind of neighborhoods that these kids grow up with and fight the social obstacels they do. Secondly our admission is extremely selective on what courses and so forth. If these kids do not get the proper guidance early on in High School why should they get punished. Finally, to argue the reverse, what's the difference between 2.0 & 2.3 really? Is a student that much harder of a worker?
Drop admission standards to the NCAA minimum and we win championships. Winning championships brings money to the school. We win championships we also get to be more selective in the type of student athlete we accept and the ends justify the means. RS was quoted several times when he was HC as saying that UM uses the NCAA minimum requirements for grades.
Not true. We have much stricter admission standards and we routinely lose kids to schools that allow the NCAA minimum. These standards also aren't just the admission minimum for incoming freshmen but also in regards to transfer credits for JUCO's and Prep kids. Its was said that Randy was allowed a couple of exceptions so I am sure Golden can use that card for a few kids who are borderline but on the whole the ACC has more stringent admission standards than the NCAA minimum and we have higher standards than the ACC minimum(See FSU). .
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