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<blockquote data-quote="Towaliga" data-source="post: 289082" data-attributes="member: 14"><p>I am not going to disagree with every point the OP is trying to make because (a) he/she obviously did a lot of research, and (b) there's a lot of info there and you guys would get bored with anyone trying to respond to it. I will comment on one of the points made. The write-up says "Schools can apply for permits and enroll students (and by that I mean athletes) that don’t meet these standards. <strong>In fact, UGA on average gets around 15 of these permits a year</strong> for just their football team and Georgia Tech gets 6." With regards to GT's 6, I'm not sure if that is true or not. I remember seeing a report in the early 2010's that said that at the time, GT had 4 exceptions on the team while over 70% of uga players were exemptions. </p><p></p><p>Even if the numbers are correct, if UGA gets on average 15 "permits" per year, that means on average that for 4 classes (freshmen through senior), they would have a team made up of 60 players that didn't meet their academic standards and GT would have 24 (60% less than the dwags). That would indicate that 70% (60 out of 85 scholarship players) of the dwags are exempted. Put it this way--the dwags could field a team with 100% of their starting and second string offense and defense, and their starting special teams players all being exempted from the academic requirements and still have 5 permitted players sitting on the bench. </p><p></p><p>With regards to the calculus factor, even it is easier, it's still calculus for Pete's sake. My experience with calculus in high school made me decide to head somewhere else than GT (I probably still could use professional counseling to get over the trauma of that class). Calculus for Dummies would be harder than any class a dwag player has to take.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Towaliga, post: 289082, member: 14"] I am not going to disagree with every point the OP is trying to make because (a) he/she obviously did a lot of research, and (b) there's a lot of info there and you guys would get bored with anyone trying to respond to it. I will comment on one of the points made. The write-up says "Schools can apply for permits and enroll students (and by that I mean athletes) that don’t meet these standards. [B]In fact, UGA on average gets around 15 of these permits a year[/B] for just their football team and Georgia Tech gets 6." With regards to GT's 6, I'm not sure if that is true or not. I remember seeing a report in the early 2010's that said that at the time, GT had 4 exceptions on the team while over 70% of uga players were exemptions. Even if the numbers are correct, if UGA gets on average 15 "permits" per year, that means on average that for 4 classes (freshmen through senior), they would have a team made up of 60 players that didn't meet their academic standards and GT would have 24 (60% less than the dwags). That would indicate that 70% (60 out of 85 scholarship players) of the dwags are exempted. Put it this way--the dwags could field a team with 100% of their starting and second string offense and defense, and their starting special teams players all being exempted from the academic requirements and still have 5 permitted players sitting on the bench. With regards to the calculus factor, even it is easier, it's still calculus for Pete's sake. My experience with calculus in high school made me decide to head somewhere else than GT (I probably still could use professional counseling to get over the trauma of that class). Calculus for Dummies would be harder than any class a dwag player has to take. [/QUOTE]
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