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<blockquote data-quote="MWBATL" data-source="post: 28084" data-attributes="member: 944"><p>Ah. so you are saying it is a matter of degrees (no pun intended), that is how far a school goes in its pursuit of athletic success in exchange for academic exceptions? This I agree with. GT clearly accepts student-athletes who would not otherwise be accepted. (Last time it was published, I believe our football teams average SAT score was in the mid 1000 range on the two part SAT, which would never get you in otherwise.) So, as the old joke goes, now that we have established that we are willing to be a whore about it, the only question is the price...i.e., how far are we willing to go. Clearly, Penn State went way WAY too far. I don't think anyone amongst us wants to go that route, or even the route that UF has chosen (my personal view). But I sense (and here I clearly admit I am not close enough to the program to know) that we are being too restrictive.</p><p></p><p>I don't want us accepting just anyone because they are a good athlete. That's just my own pride talking, nothing else. BUT, I wonder if we shouldn't be making more exceptions, taking more good athletes. There ARE benefits to having an excellent athletics program. Beyond the obvious ($$$), studies have shown that schools who win national championships (and get the recognition and publicity associated with same) get more and better qualified applicants to the university the following year.</p><p></p><p>This whole area is a dangerous tightrope...too much to one side and you become Tulane......too far the other way and you get Penn State. The realities today however is that there are very VERY few Penn State excesses.....and plenty of Tulane examples. I just think we are dangerously close to sliding in Tulane's direction, and once that really starts, it is VERY hard to reverse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MWBATL, post: 28084, member: 944"] Ah. so you are saying it is a matter of degrees (no pun intended), that is how far a school goes in its pursuit of athletic success in exchange for academic exceptions? This I agree with. GT clearly accepts student-athletes who would not otherwise be accepted. (Last time it was published, I believe our football teams average SAT score was in the mid 1000 range on the two part SAT, which would never get you in otherwise.) So, as the old joke goes, now that we have established that we are willing to be a whore about it, the only question is the price...i.e., how far are we willing to go. Clearly, Penn State went way WAY too far. I don't think anyone amongst us wants to go that route, or even the route that UF has chosen (my personal view). But I sense (and here I clearly admit I am not close enough to the program to know) that we are being too restrictive. I don't want us accepting just anyone because they are a good athlete. That's just my own pride talking, nothing else. BUT, I wonder if we shouldn't be making more exceptions, taking more good athletes. There ARE benefits to having an excellent athletics program. Beyond the obvious ($$$), studies have shown that schools who win national championships (and get the recognition and publicity associated with same) get more and better qualified applicants to the university the following year. This whole area is a dangerous tightrope...too much to one side and you become Tulane......too far the other way and you get Penn State. The realities today however is that there are very VERY few Penn State excesses.....and plenty of Tulane examples. I just think we are dangerously close to sliding in Tulane's direction, and once that really starts, it is VERY hard to reverse. [/QUOTE]
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