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<blockquote data-quote="RonJohn" data-source="post: 224730" data-attributes="member: 2426"><p>I'm not sure if you are responding to my statement that school has to come first or not. I was not intending to imply that we can't excel in both. The second paragraph detailed how we were very close to being in the CFP in 2014 while having less highly "rated" recruiting classes. The majority of the years that the 2014 team members were in school GT was in the top 10% of the NCAAs academic progress ratings also. So, the <strong>student</strong>-athletes at GT have been performing better at GT than the majority of <strong>athletes</strong> in schools that have much lower academic standards. That does not mean that they learn more or do better on standardized tests. It means that more student-athletes at GT remain academically eligible and stay in school than at many schools with student-athlete specific majors and student-athlete specific quasi-academic departments designed to keep student-<strong>athletes</strong> grades up.</p><p></p><p>What I was trying to say in the first paragraph is that: <strong>If</strong> the only way we can compete in football is to make football specific changes to the school such as add useless majors or classes designed solely to raise the GPA of football players, then it is better to not compete in football. I believe that we are doing a good job of competing, and that we are doing a remarkable job of competing against so called <strong>schools</strong> that have football programs that are basically semi-pro squads that have a quasi-relationship with a school.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RonJohn, post: 224730, member: 2426"] I'm not sure if you are responding to my statement that school has to come first or not. I was not intending to imply that we can't excel in both. The second paragraph detailed how we were very close to being in the CFP in 2014 while having less highly "rated" recruiting classes. The majority of the years that the 2014 team members were in school GT was in the top 10% of the NCAAs academic progress ratings also. So, the [B]student[/B]-athletes at GT have been performing better at GT than the majority of [B]athletes[/B] in schools that have much lower academic standards. That does not mean that they learn more or do better on standardized tests. It means that more student-athletes at GT remain academically eligible and stay in school than at many schools with student-athlete specific majors and student-athlete specific quasi-academic departments designed to keep student-[B]athletes[/B] grades up. What I was trying to say in the first paragraph is that: [B]If[/B] the only way we can compete in football is to make football specific changes to the school such as add useless majors or classes designed solely to raise the GPA of football players, then it is better to not compete in football. I believe that we are doing a good job of competing, and that we are doing a remarkable job of competing against so called [B]schools[/B] that have football programs that are basically semi-pro squads that have a quasi-relationship with a school. [/QUOTE]
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