Recruiting grad transfers: it's hard
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Thanks Taft!
HUSKYFANATIC
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You said "it's hard"
Edwin_Bambino
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Anyone more in the know than myself care to shed any light on the apparel deal Caple mentioned near the end of the article? Is UW considering leaving Nike?
CokeGreaterThanPepsi
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All three will make a run at it (Under Armour has been going hard after deals). I've heard Hopkins isn't tied to Nike, unlike Romar who wouldn't roll with anything but Nike. So that opens the possibility of going to another apparel deal.
We'll know more next summer when negotiations start. As I've said for awhile, UW getting good at football happened at the PERFECT time, because all three major companies are going to come hard after UW now.
WSU signed in summer of 2015 with Nike for around 3 million a year for 10 years, I expect UW to get at least 100 million over 10 years.
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Saracen
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It's not impossible, just more difficult at UW than at many other schools. Basically, there's no Physical Education major or equivalent at UW, so when transferring a) they only take a very minimal amount and b) they don't count in overall GPA. And most JUCO kids load up on PE classes for both credit total and GPA boost.
Not sure the details on Dillon, but both Garden City and Dixie (was JC then, now 4 year) are/were both powerhouses that have lots of experience with moving kids on to D1 schools. Not saying they're doing it right - don't twist - just that they probably were clever/shady enough to have passthrough, non-PE classes that would meet requirements. For those who went to UW in the James heydays it would be akin to a schedule with lots of classes like Geology 101, Psych 210, that independent Psych research class, and Swahili.
creepycoug
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I freely admit I know next to nothing about this issue. I don't know the difference between a graduate transfer and some kid who's played one or two years of Juco. Is is that the kids have to complete their AAs at JUCO to xfer? If so, why? I get the PE credit issue ... that's somewhat unique to UW (as I recall even Cal accepts those credits). But I'm assuming that we'd? be after people who needed JUCO for whatever reason and played a season or two and now want to xfer to UW and bring whatever credits the school will allow. For gen pop, xfering from JUCO, even after a year, is the easiest way to get into UW. It goes from being a relative competitive thing to be super fucking easy. Test scores suddenly don't matter ... just get a decent GPA taking easy classes and you're in. I see kids do it all the time.
All I can do is shake my head when I see the following from the common data sets (the one place where the schools don't lie about their stats):
CLASS OF 2021
Profile of Students
GPA SAT ACT
UW W M ERW
Average 3.60 3.92 654 628 29
Low 1.20 2.26 200 200 17
High 4.00 5.00 800 780 35
So, bottom line, who do you think that 1.20 GPA is? You think it's the 150 lb. white kid from North Bend who can't Reed Strong?
So if regular recruiting can get a kid in the door with a 1.2 GPA and 200 math and reading SAT scores, if THAT's possible, then you'd think someone would walk up to the admin building and convince them it makes just as much sense to fix the transfer issue.
The problem is, this gets translated to the fans as a Stanford issue. Trust me: there is not one person, not one single athlete, at Stanford who scored a 200 on either section of the SAT or a 1.2 GPA. Not one. They would take a hard pass on Michael Jordan with those numbers.
All I can do is shake my head when I see the following from the common data sets (the one place where the schools don't lie about their stats):
CLASS OF 2021
Profile of Students
GPA SAT ACT
UW W M ERW
Average 3.60 3.92 654 628 29
Low 1.20 2.26 200 200 17
High 4.00 5.00 800 780 35
So, bottom line, who do you think that 1.20 GPA is? You think it's the 150 lb. white kid from North Bend who can't Reed Strong?
So if regular recruiting can get a kid in the door with a 1.2 GPA and 200 math and reading SAT scores, if THAT's possible, then you'd think someone would walk up to the admin building and convince them it makes just as much sense to fix the transfer issue.
The problem is, this gets translated to the fans as a Stanford issue. Trust me: there is not one person, not one single athlete, at Stanford who scored a 200 on either section of the SAT or a 1.2 GPA. Not one. They would take a hard pass on Michael Jordan with those numbers.
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CokeGreaterThanPepsi
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Champion or GTFO