When was the last time you heard of a player on the Huskies or any team lose eligibility for bad grades? Hasn't it been a few years now?
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I thought I texted you that question or mentioned on a pod. For a long time and up until not that long ago you would have 1-2 guys in every UW recruiting class who didn't make it into school. I think we were laffing about Deandre Coleman who supposedly UW couldn't get in but he went to Cal.
I was just thinking about how much school the guys even do at all anymore? Is that still expected?
I was just thinking about how much school the guys even do at all anymore? Is that still expected?
Now that you mention it I remember bringing up Coleman to something you said. Weird I would forget that.
They have test takers for that.
Hard to say if standards changed or the coaches have been gate keeping that and not wasting their time chasing guys who they know won’t get in. Or option 3 that there is a lot of high school grade inflation occurring that didn’t exist in the past.
They ain't here to play no school.
I'm not sure why they even bother to require classes at this point.
I'm not sure why they even bother to require classes at this point.
School itself is a joke at this point. Any of the classes football would be forced into taking can be passed with Ai.
creepycoug
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It's always been pretty stupid to think about the ideal of a kid who can be an elite D1 player and a real student. In fairness to them, playing for the team is a HUGE obligation that goes well beyond the typical part-time job working at Joey Kitchen. Good number of the players are not college ready. If it were just some kid from Concrete, everybody would be like, "this kid is not academically prepared for the rigors of college work, why is he here, blah blah blah." Is anyone surprised when a player shows up and isn't really ready? They've never been and still aren't. We've just let go of the fiction.
I used to tutor at the EOP center on Brooklyn. I worked with many players on the team. I'm not going to be petty here because a good % of them were trying and were anxious about their ability to stay eligible, and they were in the situation they were in mostly because they came from below average to terrible secondary prep backgrounds. But l'll just say that it was at times a real struggle to keep guys above water.
And, yes, several of them where there because they were told to be and did not give a rat's ass about education. It was at best a huge annoyance to them.
I used to tutor at the EOP center on Brooklyn. I worked with many players on the team. I'm not going to be petty here because a good % of them were trying and were anxious about their ability to stay eligible, and they were in the situation they were in mostly because they came from below average to terrible secondary prep backgrounds. But l'll just say that it was at times a real struggle to keep guys above water.
And, yes, several of them where there because they were told to be and did not give a rat's ass about education. It was at best a huge annoyance to them.
Derek is farming his soul out to AI controlled Chi-Nah bots now. Thought you should know
People can inflate the effect of NIL on what these guys needs post football. Keep in mind the miniscule number of guys that make any money in the NFL hasn't changed. Beyond that most of the players are probably getting less than 300k over the entirety of their CFB career. As for how important the degree is you could debate me either way but the point being they still need to find careers
College degrees are almost worthless today. They are passed out like candy. If you can write fuck Trump, you'll win a Nobel prize.
ScratchGolfer
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I was thinking about this as well. It had me thinking players don't have to pretend to go to school anymore. They used to have to "make progress toward a degree". If a players is getting $3-5m to play, what are them odds he'll be sidelined for not playing school?