What is the most ridiculous thing you would do for a MSM National Championship?

I'm bitter about the fact that they draw an arbitrary line instead of really go through a process to make an educated guess.

My complaint is about Dorsey in particular. The reason RR recruited him was because he came with the thumbs up directly from a former M asst. coach (who now has him at Louisville). That recommendation said that everyone around Dorsey is f-ed up and not to be trusted, but once you get Demar away from them, he is a bright kid and will succeed. Admissions didn't countenance that. They looked at what was done to get Dorsey to meet the minimum for NCAA eligibility, as if achieving a 2.5 GPA with no funny business is all you really need to suceed. That, in and of itself, was the most embarassing part of all of this. Until this moment, Admissions' rationale for accepting lower standards was that there is something else about these athletes, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, that they have already shown which is above and beyond what other students can bring to the table.

Steve Breaston. Not a fantastic student. Got the minimum. But Lloyd vouched for the kid, because Breaston had a deep understanding of a world 99 percent of M students will never visit. That perspective was a net benefit to Breaston's classmates throughout his career, and now serves the university for having produced an NFLer who can translate that perspective to the world.

Admission's job is NOT to take the MOST DESERVING students, but to build a Freshman Class that will spark and challenge each other intellectually, and who will graduate to be successful and give the university prestige and money. Defaulting to NCAA standards is giving up the ballgame. The recommendation from Vance Bedford was the reason Rodriguez stood behind Dorsey. If we're getting a guy even close to the minimum GPA and test scores, the points here or there, and what the people around Dorsey were doing to get there, were not the main concerns: the kid himself, and what he could offer intellectually to the university community should have been. Admissions demonstrated distrust of RR and Bedford, and/or showed their hand to have been playing exaclty the same game that the pants-creasing Young Republican jackoffs selling racially priced bagels accused them of.

That said, you're right that this post and the one above it are in bad taste for the topic of this thread. I'll leave them, but feel free to neg the shit out of me for doing so.