2017 Offseason Thread

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Supersizethatorder-mutt said:
I guess there's really no other thread to post this on, but I thought you guys might like to see this article, if you haven't already. UNBELIEVABLE !!!

https://www.seccountry.com/sec/univ...-can-choose-grades-in-stress-reduction-policy
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Wow! I guess this is a good way to prepare them for the real world. The world of a fry cook is going to be stressful enough. I hope they are down by 21 points to us in the 4th quarter this year and ask CPJ for some points to reduce the stress they are feeling. I am sure he will accommodate them.
 
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Whiskey_Clear said:
Good shoulder to shoulder hit but might get a targeting nowadays.
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I disagree. I highly doubt he was trying to be dirty, but he definitely led with the crown and I mean right under the chin. Today that would have gotten him tossed.

A guy has got to be in control of his body. If you can't control your body going that fast, don't go that fast. That hit could have easily ended up real bad for either guy or both.
 
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I think he led with the shoulder but I concede helmet contact was made. Dude's head snapped back pretty fierce but I think it was in large part due to the sudden deceleration of the rest of his body upon impact. More tv angles would clarify with a certainty and yes he'd probably get tossed today.
 
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Supersizethatorder-mutt said:
I guess there's really no other thread to post this on, but I thought you guys might like to see this article, if you haven't already. UNBELIEVABLE !!!

https://www.seccountry.com/sec/univ...-can-choose-grades-in-stress-reduction-policy
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Weird. A GT biomedical engineering professor did something similar a couple years ago. It was a horribly structured course that tried to teach thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and mass flow all in one semester. Obviously that's way too much content (should be 2 courses) and it was sort of a natural weed out class. A lot of people would take it in their last semester and would begin to panic when they started bombing the class because they would need to stay an extra semester. One semester, a professor said you could opt for a C in the class if you stated you didn't care about academics; the idea being that a lot of these students already had jobs, med school, or grad school lined up and failing the class would take that away. Well, he did that without the department's approval (which it looks like this uga professor got) and he was heavily penalized for it. All that being said, I would highly doubt that the uga course is anywhere near as hard as Biotransport. It was pretty heartbreaking for me to study 30 hours for a test where the average grade was a 25.
 
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bob4gt said:
I can tell you did not go to Tech in the 60's, otherwise you would see that as the norm. :)

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Oh, I squeaked out with my B in that class and didn't look back. Sounds like students in the 60s would have benefited from having office hours and study groups though. ;)
 

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bob4gt said:
I can tell you did not go to Tech in the 60's, otherwise you would see that as the norm. :)

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I recall one of my exam scores from the mid-80s being 08/100 (yes, an 8) and I passed the test. Other exams often had class averages in the 30s = C.
I really got the shaft on another occasion, though. The untimely death of an immediate family member compelled me to leave school early during a week that I had a scheduled test (not a final, but one of only two graded exams outside of the mid-term and final). Contacted the prof on the day prior and informed/requested to reschedule. Her response was "Mr. Strong90, we all have trials and tribulations in life that force us to make difficult choices...you get a 0 (F).
I wish I could say that was a learning experience for me.
 
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strong90 said:
I recall one of my exam scores from the mid-80s being 08/100 (yes, an 8) and I passed the test. Other exams often had class averages in the 30s = C.
I really got the shaft on another occasion, though. The untimely death of an immediate family member compelled me to leave school early during a week that I had a scheduled test (not a final, but one of only two graded exams outside of the mid-term and final). Contacted the prof on the day prior and informed/requested to reschedule. Her response was "Mr. Strong90, we all have trials and tribulations in life that force us to make difficult choices...you get a 0 (F).
I wish I could say that was a learning experience for me.
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It taught you that some people are callous uncaring asses.....that's a lesson in my book.
 

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Cam said:
Oh, I squeaked out with my B in that class and didn't look back. Sounds like students in the 60s would have benefited from having office hours and study groups though. ;)
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Students in the sixties went to class 6 days a week, had mandatory 7AM ROTC without credit, Friday 3-6 afternoon labs, 8AM Saturday morning classes, six classes of PE including survival swimming , and most carried 6 classes each quarter in order to "get out" in 12 quarters. I can clearly remember one class where I made 20 on the final and the curve got me a C.
 
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