E.J. Levenberry Confirms Why He Chose FSU (academic program)
Just thought I would post a bit of this article that I found on the Rivals.com college football page about players' who made their college choice based on something besides football.
In the article, E.J. Levenberry confirms that he chose FSU over Michigan because of their highly respected criminology department (he wants to work for the FBI after graduation).
From the young man himself:
Michigan has a better overall academic reputation than Florida State. The 2012 U.S. News rankings rated Michigan 28th and Florida State 101st among national universities. But Florida State does have a renowned criminology department. In fact, Florida State's criminology department was ranked No. 1 for faculty research last year in an article by the Journal of Criminal Justice Education.The strength of that department led Levenberry to Florida State.
"That basically was the deciding factor because Michigan and Florida State were so close," Levenberry said. "They were basically identical for me. The only way I could choose a school was by what would be best for my future. Florida State had criminology. That's what I want to do. They had the major in the exact field [computer forensics] that I want to work in."
Fair enough. God speed E.J.
Hope we can wax your ass on the field in some sort of bowl game just to make you doubt yourself. Just a little.
Seems like a good kid though.
Well hopefully this same thing works in our favor for Leon McQuay?
JACK KENNEDY DROP THE BEAT
I'd love to see him go off on another FSU/Myron Rolle/Academics melt down.
I hate to say it, but I miss Bouje. He was the ying to my shut the hell up Bouje.
...to a guy that wants to do computer forensics. A comp sci degree I could understand.
He obviously did his research. Good luck down thar
Can't fault him for that. This really is a cool story... bruh.
We are only ranked 28th?? Seems way too low.
And no doubt that includes private schools... still one of the top, if not the top public school.
Gotta respect that.
At least he thought it through. It amazes that FSU seems to get a ton of players that commit for academic resons (Rolle) when they are definitely not in anywhere near the top of the academic rankings. They seem to do a great job pushing their academics to the kids to whom it would matter.
I do disagree about choosing where to go based on the ranking of the degree vs. the university overall. I did that and although it turned out ok, I think professionally I would've had a few more doors open coming from one of the bigger brand name school (for example, going to Harvard for CS... it is not highly rated as a department - http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings - compared to other schools, but I bet graduating from Harvard CS is much better than most of the others on that list)
"Academic reasons" could mean something other than just the best school. It could refer to the academic support system provided for the football players... you hear a lot of recruits talk about that. It could mean picking a school that is not as academically challenging because you want to put as much into football as you can while still remaining elgible.
I'm glad that in this case it means, the specific program in your field of interest is one of top in the country.
Is the support system as good as OSU's? Adolphus Washington said it's impossible to fail there.
Hated to lose him. But I respect his thought process and the way he handled that interview. Best of luck to the kid. Seems to be the kind of young man Hoke wants to recruit.
Hmmmm...maybe Michigan should look into starting a "cop school".
Not.
Obviously have the best criminology program.....
That being said, it comes as no surprise that FSU would be #1 in criminology.
My goodness, somebody in recruiting dropped the ball bigtime on that one.
At Michigan, we don't need to dedicate a department to that. We have Halderman to teach everything these is to know about things that can be remotely considered a computer.