Michigan football leads B1G with 48 Academic All-Big Ten players

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Article in Detroint Free Press. Someone please embed.

This is the M difference. Go Blue.

Julian

December 6th, 2017 at 11:24 PM ^

It’s great to see these kids putting in the effort towards their schooling. Not only does it give them career options outside of pro football, but it gives them a chance to apply the lessons they’ve learned through football in the classroom and chances to apply lessons learned in the classroom to football.

DavidP814

December 7th, 2017 at 12:01 AM ^

Sophomore defensive end, Rashan Gary.  Wow--that is impressive.  He is the one guy on the team that is going to be a guaranteed millionaire (short of an injury requiring amputation--and even then his insurance policy would likely be worth several millions), and he's still achieving All-B1G academic honors.

milk-n-steak

December 7th, 2017 at 12:52 AM ^

Indiana = 18

Maryland = 18

Purdue = 20

Rutgers = 25

Wisconsin = 25

MSU = 26

Illinois = 32

Minnesota = 32

OSU = 33

Penn St = 35

Northwestern = 40

Iowa = 41

Nebraska = 42

Michigan = 48

 

xtramelanin

December 7th, 2017 at 5:34 AM ^

guessing the 'class book' in some of the classes, say, at ohio or sparty, looks a lot like this...

Image result for images of coloring books

and that the syllabus has entries like:

1.  knowing your colors

2.  using colors together

3.  coloring inside the lines

and when you get to the 400 level classes, there are really challenging themes like:

1.  what to do when your crayon gets dull

2.   how to safely peel the paper from your crayon

3.   why you shouldn't eat your crayon

 

Tuebor

December 7th, 2017 at 10:42 AM ^

Totals are probably correlated to number of walkons in the program. 

 

For example Michigan has 49 walkons and 33 of them were academic all big ten.  I got total walk on number by counting total on roster (134) and subtracting 85 scholarships.  I'd imagine that Nebraska and Iowa are probably similar to Michigan in that they have large number of walk ons that boost their academic all big ten totals.

 

Outliers in my estimation would be Northwestern and Wisconsin.  I'd think that Northwestern doesn't have many walk ons and yet they have 40 academic all big ten players.  Also that Wisconsin has a similar number of walkons to Michigan only produced roughly half the academic all big ten players.

Everyone Murders

December 7th, 2017 at 7:52 AM ^

That is great to read, and should help this coaching staff continue to recruit quality student athletes.  If I were recruiting a bright 4 or 5-star athlete and speaking with his parents, it would take me about ten minutes to bring up this stat, and to tell that parent that we're happy but not satisfied with the result.

Great job, men.  You've done Michigan proud on and off the field. 

Arb lover

December 7th, 2017 at 9:14 AM ^

The big reason Stanford didn't want to open up early signing  on the 20th and summer visits was allegedly because it hurts their ability to get academically qualified players (by their standards). It will be interesting to see academic trends over the next few years as this starts to take effect. 

Tuebor

December 7th, 2017 at 10:35 AM ^

I don't see how that hurts their argument. By my count 15 of the 48 are Scholarship players.  The remaining 33 are walkons.  Scholarship worthy athletes that can hang at tough academic schools are tough to find.

 

Scholarship Players
Sophomore left guard Ben Bredeson, LSA undeclared

Redshirt junior tight end Ian Bunting, organizational studies

Sophomore linebacker Devin Bush, LSA undeclared

Redshirt junior linebacker Noah Furbush, aerospace engineering

Sophomore defensive lineman Rashan Gary, LSA undeclared

Fifth-year senior defensive tackle Maurice Hurst, master’s management of human services/child and youth

Sophomore defensive end Carlo Kemp, LSA undeclared

Sophomore tight end Sean McKeon, business administration

Redshirt junior defensive tackle Bryan Mone, general studies

Junior left tackle Grant Newsome, American culture

Redshirt freshman kicker Quinn Nordin, LSA undeclared

Fifth-year senior quarterback John O'Korn, American culture

Redshirt freshman offensive lineman Stephen Spanellis, LSA undeclared

Redshirt junior fullback Jared Wangler, master’s accounting

Redshirt junior wide receiver Maurice Ways, international studies
 
Walk On Players
Senior fullback Joe Beneducci, political science

Sophomore running back Jared Char, business administration

Senior fullback Brian Chu, economics

Sophomore defensive back Tyler Cochran, business administration

Sophomore defensive lineman Dane Drobocky, LSA undeclared

Junior linebacker Jack Dunaway, sport management

Sophomore tight end Conner Edmonds, undetermined

Junior tight end Kenny Ferris, neuroscience

Junior tight end Joseph Files, biology

Senior kicker James Foug, sport management

Grad student offensive lineman Greg Froelich, master’s public policy

Redshirt sophomore safety Jordan Glasgow, business administration

Junor defensive back Louis Grodman, movement science

Redshirt freshman punter Will Hart, LSA undeclared

Senior running back Joe Hewlett, business administration

Senior tight end Bradford Jones, general studies

Senior linebacker Alex Kaminski, political science

Junior defensive lineman John Luby, economics

Sophomore wide receiver Jake Martin, industrial and operational engineering

Senior safety Matt Mitchell, business administration

Grad student quarterback/holder Garrett Moores, master’s management

Sophomore defensive tackle Carl Myers, sport management

Junior linebacker Jameson Offerdahl, mechanical engineering

Sophomore offensive lineman Greg Robinson, LSA undeclared

Sophomore wide receiver Nate Schoenle, business administration

Sophomore quarterback Michael Sessa, LSA undeclared

Redshirt sophomore kicker Ryan Tice, sport management

Sophomore offensive lineman Andrew Vastardis, undetermined

Senior fullback Nick Volk, international studies

Fifth-year senior wide receiver Jack Wangler, psychology

Junior safety Jacob West, biology

Junior wide receiver Brendan White, mechanical engineering

Fifth-year linebacker Mike Wroblewski, health and fitness

 

Tuebor

December 7th, 2017 at 10:21 AM ^

Wow.  Impressive list, and far fewer general studies majors than I'd have thought.

 

Business Administration, Any Engineering, Biology, economics, Master's accounting.  Very impressive.

DrAwkward

December 7th, 2017 at 3:21 PM ^

When facing down a trash-talking rival who is gloating about some victory over UM, I have always enjoyed having the retort: "your team may have prevailed this time, but my university has always been and always will be academically superior to yours."

The fact that I sound like an elitist ass-wipe doesn't bother me that much.