Ahmir Mitchell, Shelton Johnson and Kareem Walker Not In Team Photo
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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner 1m1 minute ago
Which, as we know, is TBD.
Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner 2m2 minutes ago
Asked if they're facing any disciplinary action, was told that's something Harbaugh will have to answer at next media avail. ...
Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner 2m2 minutes ago
Asked if they're on the team, was told "they're on the roster" -- which they are.
Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner 3m3 minutes ago
Official response from the program when I asked was: They had "other commitments."
Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner 3m3 minutes ago
Have now been asked multiple times why Ahmir Mitchell, Kareem Walker and Shelton Johnson aren't in Michigan's team photo ...
Little bit of read between the lines chatter from an insider on scout earlier today about grades being the reason Walker wasn't in the team picture. Shouldn't be a lasting concern though, "we expect him to appear in future photos" is another quote there.
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I think if you have grade issues, it's most likely to happen your frosh year. If you're all of a sudden having grade issues as an upperclassmen, that would be a sign of something else. Lots of kids, even very good students, have a hard time adjusting to college academically.
are accelerated. The terms are only half as long, so you double up on class times. It's a bigger change from HS with less time to adjust.
an early enrollee would typically have? I assume players need to be enrolled "full-time" during regular semesters to be considered student-athletes and participate in varsity sports so that's 12 credit hours, right?
If he took 12 in the winter term and is taking more classes in the spring/summer, is the idea behind that to get far enough ahead that you can take the minimum 12 hours for all four of your fall terms and some winter terms?
We're also seeing more and more players graduating early. Aside from the advantages of being able to do a grad transfer, even graduating a semester early is a worthwhile goal. That way you can spend that last winter term preparing for the draft.
True for me (which means you're 100% right - I have anecdotal evidence!). I entered college with lots of credits and got my ass kicked in a couple of sophomore classes as a freshman. GPA went up from there as I figured college out.
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and got absolutely wrecked my freshman year. And I'm no Division I athlete either. I'd say it's slightly concerning, but not atypical by any means. Michigan is one of the country's very best public schools lest we forget and not everyone had the fortune to come up through nice schools in the suburbs like me
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lets be fair here. you didn't get into michigan being a bad student. you got into michigan because highschool was easy, and your what me and others called a professional "slacker"...I was like this in Highschool. didn't bother with homework, wrote papers the night of, played calculator games during class... I would be taking the weekly math test and figuring out the material for the first time on said test. I took all AP courses where possible and got out of highschool with a 3.2 GPA which in retrospect sucked, because I knew I was better than that, but I just was bored.
August 10th, 2016 at 7:00 AM ^
Yup, can agree.
I screwed up Calc 115 or 117 (Calc 1) my frosh year. I thought that since the professor didn't take attendance that I didnt' really need to show up to any classes. As I was good at math I thought I would just learn things on my own and pass. So at about 3/4 of the way through the semester I had done bad enough on my tests to know that I wasn't going to get above a C after the final. I also didn't know about how to drop a class (well at what point in time I can drop a class before it coutns against me). So in an even dumber move than not showing up to class I thought that dropping a class meant not showing up to the final. So I didn't and I think I got an X for my grade. Really hurt me that first semester, but I learned my lesson very quickly. Got an A in the same class the following semester.
I mean in my experience freshman year classes are the intro courses and the easiest. I understand there is still anjustment period I guess.
It depends on your major and most high schools do a pretty shitty job of preparing kids for the rigor of college.
August 10th, 2016 at 9:48 AM ^
I think it depends more on what credits you come in with than just your major.
Sometimes testing out of 1st year classes is what kills folks.
That being said - I saw plenty of high school valedictorians at Michigan that must have went to awful high school, because they failed REALLy easy classes.
My first semester was my worst by FAAAAAAAAR. Adjusting from high school to college is tough. I had a 4.0 (inlucing APs) during high school and pulled a 2.4 GPA my first semester at UM. Granted I doubt a football player is taking calc II and Orgo in his first semester, but I don't blame them one bit for having difficulty with the transition.
That's a pretty brutal first semester
Ty Issac ? Is he even in the picture?
Edit NVM found him next to moe ways.
Interesting that peppers is in the front row next to harbuagh
Ugh.
I would've shot myself in the face if my freshman fall classes included either of those.
2.7 my first semester. Calc 3, Physics 2, and Eng 100. Two sophomore classes and intro engineering - where they explained that curves are dumb!
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killed me frosh year. I tested borderline between needing one or two years of Spanish and I chose to go into second year Spanish to be done faster. Wtih no Spanish class my senior year in HS, I was not prepared for that.
Orrrrrr maybe it was the unlimited social options/independence that I prioritized.
August 9th, 2016 at 10:50 PM ^
Probably learned this in Spanish:
uno mas cerveza por favor
That was my first semester at UM as a transfer in...add UROP, accelearated french, and a 4 credit polsci coarse...almost dropped out. Had to cut French and UROP to survive...to this day, I have strong feelings for that counselor who gave that to me
August 10th, 2016 at 7:19 AM ^
It's not even the difficulty level of the course. It's the amount of work required to get good grades in all parts of the class. I had German my first or second semseter and I distinctly remember that I said "what the fuck" out loud in the class when the professor said that we'll need to spend 8 - 10 hours outside of class each week on HW just to pass the class. I had AP German in HS and I did all of my HW right before class started, and I never had to study. So it's just that HS does bad at prepping you for the amount of work you need to do. Even though I belive that was the point of taking an AP class.
Also, how important it is to learn how to be a good test taker. Trying to figure out how each professor gives their tests. What they like to test students on. What type of questions they prefer to ask. HS me would have never known about any of that stuff.
My first semester at Michigan were my worst grades. It's not just adjustment. I took my math requirement to get it out of the way and barely passed. I was an English major. Also had a 7am music history class. You cannot pay attention to ragas that early in the morning. Fortunately I switched that one to Pass/Fail before the deadline.
You ever take a multiple choice Physics 140 exam?
At least in engineering, the course material gets harder as you go up, but the classes and the curves set make it farrrrrr easier to get good grades in your junior and senior years. I was probably around a 2.8-3.0 my first two years and carried a 3.5-3.6 my last two years. Those intro level classes are designed to destroy your will to live
However, if you come from a school that hasn't prepared you for a major university like UofM or you haven't developed study habits, you're going to struggle - period.
It's not just about the classes or being a freshman...it's also about your high school.
For some of these kids, it takes 1-2 years of tutoring and learning how to be a college student before they excel at being a college student.
Other HS's prepare their graduates and freshman year is a breeze and those kids struggle later when classes are flat out harder.
There is really NO reason for anyone to be debating this. It depends on the person and their past, that really can't be argued if you ask me.
Just have to hope the kids who were passed along in HS because of academics or even excelled at HS but went to a shit academic school that really didn't teach or prepare them...you have to hope those kids can find their way after early struggles. Some do, some don't.
August 10th, 2016 at 9:53 AM ^
"However, if you come from a school that hasn't prepared you for a major university like UofM or you haven't developed study habits, you're going to struggle - period."
I wouldn't say that...
My highschool was academically rigorous for the area I grew up in - but I was the slackerest of slackers, always did homework last minute, and never developed any study habits.
At Michigan I was a slacker, but I went to class and turned in my homework... never studied, ever... only had one semester at Michigan below a 3.0 and graduated with a 3.3.
August 9th, 2016 at 11:30 PM ^
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Honestly I don't even know why we're taking pictures until we do.
At least until we beat MSU and OSU
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That ain't what that meme's about, man.
Dude needs to up his meme game up.
We can take a team photo when we beat Ohio
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There is exactly one way to use each meme
Are you from Eaton Rapids?
5 guys are not in the submarine right now... walker sounds like hitting the books.
only one of the five expected to be a potential contributor in the rotation
edit: See SAMgo above