Chrissy? Is this your inner Jim Rome speaking?
Now this comment advances the conversation, at least for me. I'd love a discussion about the best way to build a university via admissions. NU took a chance on me despite coming from a poor-performing school with no AP classes. I'd like to think they made a good decision. Certainly I consider it a remarkable blessing to graduate from NU. I don't know who I would be without the school. I know my attitude toward the school was different from my friend who didn't get into Georgetown, hated NU, and didn't get involved in extra-curriculars. I'd love to see an athletics admissions policy that coincides with a broader strategy to pursue well-rounded students and not just people who can ace the tests. I don't like like the idea of having 7,900 students who need to get an ACT of 33 and 100 with an ACT of 17.
Do you have additional detail on what UChicago does? Is there simply greater focus on interviewing?
He was part of the Bruce Pearl staff at Tennessee that was fired for recruiting improprieties, and was given a 1 year Show Cause penalty.
Wake recruits at NCAA minimums, so it should be the same thing as ETSU for him.
Wake basketball had a 100% Graduation Success Rate. I doubt they recruit at NCAA minimum
They do. It’s possible to have great GSR by providing adequate resources to those who need them.
How do you know this?
How should I know? The article says the school “places higher classroom standards than most schools”. Why do you think they do t have higher standards?
Ok, so the school’s marketing vehicle says it so it must be right. I’ve done a short time in the industry and I’ve followed recruiting pretty closely since I started at NU. Schools do this all the time. Wisconsin does this by saying it requires an extra year of foreign language. However, when it come to core GPA and test scores, they recruit the minimum.
They graduate 100% of their players. Minimum is what Illinois, Indiana, OSU, Pen St., MSU and Minnesota use
I didn’t say it must be right. I’m asking why you are right. Not sure what “a short time in the industry means” but I really don’t care either way. Wake was never hiring Collins.
It’s fairly easy to graduate from a P5 school even being a minimum qualifier with the resources allotted to you. You just have to vaguely try.
Or you major in Communication Studies. Or Learning and Organizational Change. Or Radio, TV, Film.
Oh, you are a cultist! That explains the misplaced anger.
I know—I want to take it. Let me know how. And no, I’m not a cultist but thank you for playing.
We had a bunch of football players in our frat and I knew a lot from other frats. These guys were as bright as anyone on campus and today most are lawyers, doctors, successful businessmen, and professors. Look at how many of our more recent grads go to grad school. We have to stop looking at our athletes as marginal students; it simply is not true. That is why so many good athletes are rejected for admission - our standards are high for everyone.
None of them replied to my offer. Saying you want to make a bet and accepting a bet are not the same. So you and I have a bet. I win if NU finishes
I don’t think that’s accurate. Jones was much lower than that.
Isn't it a good idea to have high standards for the athletes being admitted?? IMO, NU academics are rigorous in every subject. Every major at NU has difficult classes. To succeed, you need skills/smarts. The high graduation rates and high gpas of virtually all NU athletes almost always leads the nation. This fact is very logical. The athletes are just as smart/great students or more so than the other students that they compete with academically at NU. If our standards weren't high for athletes gettting admitted, they would fail out. NU profs aren't corrupt like the profs at other less-ethical schools/programs. YOu have to do the work and study if you want to graduate. Our results speak for themselves in the success rates of virtually all our athletes. And when our student athletes graduate, they are more than able to speak for themselves and accomplish amazing feats for another 40+ years....
