OT ?: Academics in todays football ??
I saw this on espn today
About UNC and players not being smart enough to read
If anything UNC should want to explore more internally, rather than sweep it under the rug. I understand its embarrasing but daam, have some integrity.
How the heck are they getting in , if you can't read past a 8th grade level, how are you passing the ACT or the SAT...Has to be some cheating going on. ( IE: Derrick Rose scandal )
I remember Dexter Manley not being able to read and getting thru School
And of the course, the academic advisors who should be ashamed of themselves for putting these kids thru a route that ensures basically no degree.
I know OSU has Twilight movie classes, and of course this-good ole Sammy Maldanado
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=1919255
Daam shame these universities are doing this, i am sure more than UNC are doing it
January 17th, 2014 at 12:22 PM ^
U dnt knead two reed good if u go two Oiho or Narf Korilina.
January 17th, 2014 at 12:23 PM ^
"How the heck are they getting in , if you can't read pasta 8th grade level,"
Mmm 8th grade pasta...
January 17th, 2014 at 12:26 PM ^
January 17th, 2014 at 12:34 PM ^
The last time I think I "read pasta", was when I ate Campbell's alphabet soup. Good practice for getting admitted to UNC, I guess.
January 17th, 2014 at 4:09 PM ^
Hey look coach, my spaghettiOs spell out ooooooo!
January 17th, 2014 at 1:01 PM ^
Maybe he's Asian, and spelling phonetically. Read pasta, pasta, pasta.
I'm going as fast as I can, man.
January 17th, 2014 at 2:12 PM ^
Turkey a la king FTW
/cherishs memory of how good it was, refuses to acknowledge what was in it
January 17th, 2014 at 12:27 PM ^
those players are really getting a great value with that free education.
b/c lord knows, even if you can't read pasta 8th grade level, you can still learn things at a collegiate level.
January 17th, 2014 at 12:28 PM ^
...errors in a screed about academic failings...
January 17th, 2014 at 1:13 PM ^
Who better to carry the torch for those left behind academically?
January 17th, 2014 at 12:32 PM ^
was posted once before a little over a week ago by me, but it is something that deserves more attention. It is taking the student out of "student-athlete" and should be addressed by the NCAA.
CNN actually did the initial study.
Link to my post: http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/ot-cnn-article-ncaa-athletes-academic-standards
Link to CNN Story: http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/07/us/ncaa-athletes-reading-scores/index.html?hpt=hp_c3
January 17th, 2014 at 1:59 PM ^
That's how they say it in the south. Mis-sippi, ya'll.
January 17th, 2014 at 12:37 PM ^
January 17th, 2014 at 12:50 PM ^
Anyone remember Doc Losh? Grading scale: A for athlete, B for boy and C for coed.
January 17th, 2014 at 12:57 PM ^
As I recall, the Dexter Manley revelation came before a Senate subcommittee hearing back in the late 1980s, where he actually broke down and said that he was functionally illiterate in his time at Oklahoma State.
I think there was even a professor at Georgia in the 1980s (I remember reading about her a few years back, though the name escapes me) that was supposedly fired for refusing to inflate grades so that players could remain eligible, or at least this is the reason her suit against the university alleged. She had said in interviews that one of the players whose grades she refused to fix was Dominique Wilkins.
January 17th, 2014 at 1:21 PM ^
Not a big deal. A study showed 62% of NFL players are broke within 2 years of leaving the NFL. They can fall back on thet great edgumcation. Parents need to wake up about the schools that the kids choose.
January 17th, 2014 at 4:01 PM ^
January 17th, 2014 at 6:56 PM ^