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<blockquote data-quote="LibertyTurns" data-source="post: 475812" data-attributes="member: 789"><p>Yeah, exceptions. I think we can all agree that minorities comprise a higher percentage of our athletic teams than the school as a whole. Many top athletes either were not afforded the educational opportunities, or had the importance stressed to them that the general pool of applicants had. They are disproportionately minority (I don’t have hard data to back it up but would bet my own money on it).</p><p></p><p>You can’t tell me that an individual that dedicated so much of his life to become an elite athlete cannot be tutored to learn whatever academic hurdle we could throw in front of him/her given extra assistance/tutoring. Give them help, not punish them for not being like the others. Screwing with them on class times, not allowing test/quiz reschedules is complete bull & those academic elites like Peterson know it.</p><p></p><p>That would help. We should applaud/admire our student athletes not have our leadership look down their noses at them like they’re some kind of second class citizens.</p><p></p><p>By the way, about a year or so after Peterson took over he met with about 20 of us in Los Angeles. He spoke about 30 minutes about all the great programs that were being launched. We followed up with about an hour of questions about how he was going to improve our football, basketball & baseball teams. He was not a happy camper that night. Finally he told us he had no more time & raced out of there like we had the plague. He may be slick, but he’s definitely not a GT Man.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LibertyTurns, post: 475812, member: 789"] Yeah, exceptions. I think we can all agree that minorities comprise a higher percentage of our athletic teams than the school as a whole. Many top athletes either were not afforded the educational opportunities, or had the importance stressed to them that the general pool of applicants had. They are disproportionately minority (I don’t have hard data to back it up but would bet my own money on it). You can’t tell me that an individual that dedicated so much of his life to become an elite athlete cannot be tutored to learn whatever academic hurdle we could throw in front of him/her given extra assistance/tutoring. Give them help, not punish them for not being like the others. Screwing with them on class times, not allowing test/quiz reschedules is complete bull & those academic elites like Peterson know it. That would help. We should applaud/admire our student athletes not have our leadership look down their noses at them like they’re some kind of second class citizens. By the way, about a year or so after Peterson took over he met with about 20 of us in Los Angeles. He spoke about 30 minutes about all the great programs that were being launched. We followed up with about an hour of questions about how he was going to improve our football, basketball & baseball teams. He was not a happy camper that night. Finally he told us he had no more time & raced out of there like we had the plague. He may be slick, but he’s definitely not a GT Man. [/QUOTE]
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