Eight UM Football Players Named to Academic All-Big Ten Team

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December 2nd, 2010 at 4:18 PM
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Eight UM Football Players Named to Academic All-Big Ten Team

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Eight U-M football players earned Academic All-Big Ten recognition, including redshirt freshman starting safety/linebacker Cameron Gordon (Detroit, Mich./Inkster) and redshirt sophomore starting offensive lineman Patrick Omameh (Columbus, Ohio/St. Francis DeSales). Redshirt junior offensive lineman Zac Ciullo (Bloomfield Hills, Mich./Brother Rice) also earned his first spot on the academic team. He will forego his fifth year of eligibility and enroll in U-M's Law School next fall.

Football (8)
Zac Ciullo, Sr., LS&A Honors, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
John Ferrara, Sr., History, Staten Island, N.Y.
J.B. Fitzgerald, Jr., Sport Management, Princeton Junction, N.J.
Cameron Gordon, So., General Studies, Detroit, Mich.
Will Heininger, Sr., Sport Management, Ann Arbor, Mich.
John McColgan, Sr., Economics, Saginaw, Mich.
Patrick Omameh, Jr., Sociology, Columbus, Ohio
Joe Reynolds, So., LS&A/Undeclared, Rochester, Mich.

http://www.mgoblue.com/genrel/120210aab.html

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December 2nd, 2010 at 4:22 PM | can i have ciullo's fifth (Score:1)
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can i have ciullo's fifth year?

2013 resolution - make it onto the 2014 favorite MGoPosters post, not ironically
December 2nd, 2010 at 4:36 PM | I'll trade him even-up for my (Score:1)
SFBlue
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I'll trade him even-up for my U-M law degree.  We can switch back after the season...

Missing Ann Arbor

December 2nd, 2010 at 4:22 PM | Question.  What constitues (Score:1)
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Question.  What constitues academic all-big ten?  A certain grade point average or do they look at the average across the division and set a bench mark for people who made it and who are below?  I have no idea so I was just wondering.

December 2nd, 2010 at 4:26 PM | I'd be more interested in (Score:1)
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I'd be more interested in knowing if certain degrees get you some leeway in GPA.

December 2nd, 2010 at 4:28 PM | Yeah good point.  Id be (Score:1)
yostlovesme
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Yeah good point.  Id be pissed with my Chemistry major and a 3.4 losing out to sports management with a 3.7.

December 2nd, 2010 at 4:52 PM | It has to be lonely up there (Score:1)
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It has to be lonely up there on your pedestal...

GO BLUE

December 2nd, 2010 at 5:02 PM | Did it turn your whole life (Score:1)
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Did it turn your whole life upside down face?

December 2nd, 2010 at 5:19 PM | I'm not even sure what that (Score:1)
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I'm not even sure what that means.  Then again, I wasn't a chemistry major.

GO BLUE

December 2nd, 2010 at 5:23 PM | you should consider being (Score:1)
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you should consider being able to dress yourself in the morning without falling into walls a great success.

Final Four Thoughts!

December 2nd, 2010 at 5:27 PM | Neither was I, but apparently (Score:1)
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Neither was I, but apparently if you use it as an example ipso facto u r.  Then in the process a narcissisitc prick.  These are things ive learned today.

December 2nd, 2010 at 5:52 PM | Well (Score:1)
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You did say "my chemistry major," so that leads one to believe that you did in fact major in chemistry. You must be able to understand the confusion.

I can only continue to reference the fact that I live in an onion factory.

December 2nd, 2010 at 5:54 PM | Understandably so.  Just a (Score:1)
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Understandably so.  Just a thought I had regarding the post before mine.

December 2nd, 2010 at 6:49 PM | Internet pissing contests (Score:1)
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are fun.

Hide ya kids, hide ya wife.

December 2nd, 2010 at 5:11 PM | what's wrong with sport (Score:1)
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what's wrong with sport management? 

Final Four Thoughts!

December 2nd, 2010 at 8:13 PM | I have a joke (Score:1)
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Whats the difference between a chemist and a chemical engineer?

 

a paycheck.

 

I kid I kid.  But that is a joke I hear all the time working with both chemists and chemical engineers.

"A flute with no holes is not a flute. A donut with no hole is a danish"

December 2nd, 2010 at 9:12 PM | Chemistry 08....I barely (Score:1)
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Chemistry 08....I barely stayed in the 3 range....

December 2nd, 2010 at 4:47 PM | According... (Score:1)
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...to the release:

To be eligible for selection, student-athletes must be letterwinners in at least their second academic year at their institution and carry a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or higher.

LSA '89 - MBB Natl Champions, Big 10/Rose Bowl Champions | @MGoShoe

December 2nd, 2010 at 5:01 PM | Thank you. (Score:1)
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Thank you.

December 2nd, 2010 at 5:54 PM | Another Question: (Score:1)
BleedingBlue
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How can the name the team when grades for this semester aren't in yet?

'Murica & Footbaw: That's what Michigan Does

December 2nd, 2010 at 9:14 PM | And as a chemistry major I (Score:1)
tomcat
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And as a chemistry major I really appreciate your avatar

December 2nd, 2010 at 4:22 PM | Well done gentlemen. (Score:1)
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Winners on and off the field. 

I have a Fandom Endurance III merit badge

December 2nd, 2010 at 4:27 PM | They is smart. They studies (Score:1)
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They is smart. They studies hard.

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December 2nd, 2010 at 4:29 PM | It's even more impressive for (Score:1)
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It's even more impressive for Omameh given that he's from Columbus.

Not that I loved Rich Rod less, but that I loved Michigan more.

December 2nd, 2010 at 4:32 PM | true, but he's not a product (Score:1)
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true, but he's not a product of the Columbus public school system.

December 2nd, 2010 at 4:39 PM | In engineering. (Score:1)
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In engineering.

Me fail english thats unpossible!

December 2nd, 2010 at 4:43 PM | in sociology (Score:1)
a non emu
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in sociology

December 2nd, 2010 at 5:06 PM | Engineering (Score:1)
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Engineering

not just "douchey" MGoBlog user, but now TRUSTED MGoBlog user

December 2nd, 2010 at 5:13 PM | socioneering (Score:1)
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socioneering

December 2nd, 2010 at 5:23 PM | enginology (Score:1)
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enginology

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December 2nd, 2010 at 6:37 PM | What (Score:1)
Drill
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Why does the Academic All Big Ten thing say he's a sociology major but his mgoblue profile says he's in the college of engineering?

EDIT: NVM some mgocreeper umich directory stalking says he's in LSA as a sociology major.

December 2nd, 2010 at 5:25 PM | No surprise there (Score:1)
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We already knew he was smart enough to leave Columbus.

December 2nd, 2010 at 4:30 PM | That's what I like to see (Score:1)
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Keep up the good work

"Look up, get up, and don't ever give up"

December 2nd, 2010 at 4:31 PM | sigh (Score:1)
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more academic all-big tens than athletic all-big tens

December 2nd, 2010 at 4:37 PM | Priorities mixed up? (Score:1)
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Priorities mixed up?

This is the mindset that disgusts me about college sports today.

December 2nd, 2010 at 5:54 PM | Well (Score:1)
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Keep in mind, he is from Lansing.

j/k BlueinLansing

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December 2nd, 2010 at 6:14 PM | FormerWolv (Score:1)
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I'd love to hear your take on the state of the team, what you're hearing, etc. 

If you'd like to wait until after the bowl game, I certainly understand.  Anything you can bring to a rational discussion I'd love to read.

Perhaps start a new thread?

December 2nd, 2010 at 7:36 PM | MGOLEAK (Score:1)
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I will soon release some classified diplomatic cables between RRod and DB. Mary Sue and some guy named jajaja23 also make an appearance. 

December 2nd, 2010 at 4:32 PM | Out of a team that is over (Score:1)
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Out of a team that is over 100 players, I wish we had more than 8 people get recognized for academics. But congrats, nonetheless, it is well deserved.

December 2nd, 2010 at 4:41 PM | Is this a historically low (Score:1)
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number or something?  Does anyone have any data on past years?

December 2nd, 2010 at 4:42 PM | Relativity (Score:1)
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Its all relative, right?  The kids at Michigan are competing with players at 10 other universities including some of the very best public schools in the country.

[Edit:  I just read the below posts and find that OSU has more than twice the number at Michigan.  Yikes.]

Disgruntled former moderator.  I got a lot of problems with you people!

December 2nd, 2010 at 4:34 PM | Congratulations to those who (Score:1)
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Congratulations to those who made it.  Not sure how the Academic All Big Ten Team works, but 8 guys sounds like a lot.  I think Rich Rod has done a good job stressing academics with this team, and I know it's one of the criteria DB is using to evaluate the coach.

December 2nd, 2010 at 4:41 PM | 8 is not a lot (Score:1)
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The Big ten honored 190 academic all big ten football players, including Terrell Pryor.



OSU had 22

PSU had 19

MSU had 13.



December 2nd, 2010 at 4:45 PM | Ouch (Score:1)
mEEchigan04
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I figured there would be about 50... 2 full offensive and defensive teams plus some special teams.

Guess we're not making the progress in the class room I was expecting and that's not good for the coach.

December 2nd, 2010 at 5:00 PM | Maybe you forgot (Score:1)
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last year the team was at or near an all time high for cumulative GPA.  If you actually believe there would be 50 you need to lay off of the sauce so early.

December 2nd, 2010 at 5:22 PM | But when someone actually (Score:1)
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But when someone actually pressed Martin/RR for the GPA numbers last year, they couldn't provide them, or offer any comparison to the GPAs under Carr, so it's anyone's guess if that claim had any legitimacy. 

December 2nd, 2010 at 7:18 PM | sry no time (Score:1)
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I think somebody said it had something to do with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FERPA

December 2nd, 2010 at 5:47 PM | I meant 50 total selectees (Score:1)
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I meant 50 total selectees across the Big 10... first team, second team, specials teams like they select the All-American teams.  I didn't expect to have 50 UM players on the list, since that would be an insane percentage of the team.

December 2nd, 2010 at 4:54 PM | Not surprising (Score:1)
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They had to get a 3.0

A 3.0 at U of M is a hell of a lot harder to get than a 3.0 at OSU or MSU. (dunno about PSU)

"Over? Did you say, over? Nothing is over until we decide it is!"

December 2nd, 2010 at 5:01 PM | It'd be one thing if most of (Score:1)
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It'd be one thing if most of the guys were in engineering, economics, etc. But..... they aren't

December 2nd, 2010 at 5:03 PM | They're still taking U of M classes though (Score:1)
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If it was engineering I'd be amazed. I worked my ass off for my ME 3.0 classes were curved to a strict 2.7

Even if they take only the "easiest" U of M classes I doubt the average in all of them is above a 3.0. And if these guys who have a full time job (football) can also do at least "average" in a U of M Classroom, that's really impressive

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