We came to play SCHOOL: 45 Academic All-B1G selections for Michigan Football
Harbaugh has backed his comments up from 2007.
19 in his first year set the program record for Academic All-B1Gers. 19.
23 the next year, then 48 last year set the new record. Michigan has 45 in 2018 for a 4-year total of 135, averaging 34 per season. Pretty damn good and the best the program has ever been in this department.
Overall B1G rankings
1. Northwestern - 59
2. Michigan - 45
3. Minnesota - 39
4. Wisconsin - 37
5. Nebraska - 36
6. Iowa - 33
7. Illinois - 32
8. Michigan State - 30
9. Purdue - 28
Rutgers - 28
Penn State - 28
Ohio State - 28
13. Indiana - 27
14. Maryland - 17
East Division rankings-
December 5th, 2018 at 7:50 PM ^
UM recruits against Stanford and Notre Dame for that cohort of recruits (& parents) that truly value education.
This achievement is especially important for these recruits.
This weekend we have a wide receiver visiting - Stanford v UM. One parent attended both.
This matters.
December 5th, 2018 at 8:15 PM ^
THIS is the Michigan Difference! Hoping that we'll soon hear that Aeronautical Engineer Noah Furbush will be taking Jim Harbaugh out for a flight and that Noah has received his job offer from NASA.
December 5th, 2018 at 8:17 PM ^
Have a good idea for new B1G division line-up:
The Play Football & Play School Division
- Northwestern
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Wisconsin
- Nebraska
- Iowa
- Illinois
The Play Football and Violate Shit Division
- MSU
- Purdue
- Rutgers
- PSU
- OSU
- Indiana
- Maryland
December 5th, 2018 at 9:19 PM ^
Swap Illinois for MSU and you have a pretty decent NW/SE geographical alignment that has competitive balance.
December 5th, 2018 at 9:52 PM ^
Pretty solid - but if Nebraska could sacrifice babies for CFB wins there would be no kids left in that state in a decade.
December 6th, 2018 at 9:18 AM ^
"Violate Shit", I absolutely love it. Remind me again why Maryland was necessary in the B1G?
December 5th, 2018 at 8:35 PM ^
Looks like the 'Cats are pretty smart too.
December 5th, 2018 at 8:58 PM ^
Not so smart. It's a children's book, "The Adventures of Martin" . It is in Russian though, extra credit for that.
December 5th, 2018 at 10:16 PM ^
Hey, don't knock the cat taking SLAVIC 101-2. I have it on good authority it aced its final.
December 5th, 2018 at 9:25 PM ^
Well done, lads!
December 5th, 2018 at 11:10 PM ^
Great accomplishment. If only we could see this type of dominance on the football field.
December 6th, 2018 at 12:22 AM ^
Great accomplishment!
Just an FYI, in case you didn’t know. General Studies is not a “fluff athlete’s major,” and is challenging degree to earn from Michigan because it requires 60 of the required 120 credits be from 300 level or above course work, but no more than 20 of those upper-level credits may be counted from a single department, with no less than a 2.0 GPA.
That doesn’t sound hard, but basically one has to take 4 upper level 3 credit classes in 5 different departments, and considering class sequencing, 4 upper level classes can get a BGS student into graduate level classes. For me — BGS 1995 — I found the program to be a true “liberal arts” education and one that had me working more closely with my advisor and faculty than what I saw from some of my peers.
My final year and a half (I graduated in December) in particular, was a facinating mix of philosophy, history, creative writing, anthropology, and “experiential learning” via the Sociology Department’s Project Community through which our class ran a debate club for prisoners at the (now closed) Western Wayne Penitentiary. I didn’t feel I was “taking classes,” I felt like I was emmerced in learning, in reading, in writing, and in interacting with great minds in their fields.
General Studies sounds bad, but it’s a wonderful degree, IMO, that I would recommend for anyone who isn’t trying to go the BSchool or Med School route.
December 6th, 2018 at 9:15 AM ^
Please don't take this the wrong way, as what you describe sounds way more fun than the business school experience I had. But what does one do with a General Studies degree? I assume there is no predefined career path like accounting, law, etc. But are there any common or typical vocations pursued by the general studies degree holder? Sounds like it is probably a good base for a teacher or professor.
Just curious, feel free to tell me to screw off!
December 6th, 2018 at 1:39 PM ^
I manage a private hedge fund. IDK what others do with their BGS’s.
I don’t ever remember and instance where I “used my degree” professionally like many people do. I look at it in the classic “liberal arts” sense of being very “well rounded” and having the ability/desire to understand and participate in a very wide variety of subjects/fields. I’ve continued my studies into law, finance, and I’ve have business ventures in the golf industry.
Its all really just a means to an end so I can fish and play golf at my leisure.
December 6th, 2018 at 1:52 AM ^
that’s great. But, why aren’t they smart enough to beat osu?
December 6th, 2018 at 6:24 AM ^
That's a question for the coaches not the players
December 6th, 2018 at 6:11 AM ^
Furbush...Master's Degree is space engineering...wow and wtf I didn't know this even existed! Good Lord I'd love to sit in on some of these classes although the math doesn't sound fun...calculating irradiation of various types with different materials over different time frames sounds mind boggling
December 6th, 2018 at 8:25 AM ^
Surprised to see IU so low.
December 6th, 2018 at 8:59 AM ^
The fact that only 28 players on the tOSU roster were 2018 BIG All- Academic selections seems to bear out the thesis advanced here regarding the correlation between elite college football programs and less-than-elite admission standards.
And whatever the current Alabama All-Academic numbers might be, I still remember a Joe Namath interview when he said upon leaving high school he applied at Maryland, who rejected him out of hand. Of course, whether Bear Bryant or anyone else at Alabama inquired at all about Joe's high school grades is, ahem, an academic question.
December 6th, 2018 at 9:08 AM ^
The bottom of the list being the schools embroiled in scandal can't be coincidental, can it?
December 6th, 2018 at 10:41 AM ^
This is clearly a lie because Urban Meyer only days ago said OSU puts education at the front for their football players. Education is the most important to OSU...so this list has to be wrong.