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<blockquote data-quote="ncjacket79" data-source="post: 289440" data-attributes="member: 3199"><p>So much wrong with this post. For starters, we set our admissions standards for athletes based on keeping them in, not getting them in. It's not a culture issue, it's a simply matter of them being able to do the work. The "culture" you talk about for schools like Harvard is that once you're in you are capable of doing the work they require, not that the work is easy. My masters is from Duke and I have family who have degress from several highly ranked liberal arts schools. We have this mindset as Tech fans that the work is easy...it's not, it's just that the admissions standards are so rigorous that everyone can handle it. The grading might be easier but the classwork isn't. As far as exceptions, we do allow some but the reason we don't take more is those guys end up flunking out more often than not. Personally i would like us to trust the coaching staff more, but when you lose players to academics it impacts your future classes. Finally, people like to look at the 2007 class, but don't want to admit that very few of those kids graduated or even finished 4 years. If we had the same rules now as we did then, football would be penalized with scholarship losses on an annual basis.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ncjacket79, post: 289440, member: 3199"] So much wrong with this post. For starters, we set our admissions standards for athletes based on keeping them in, not getting them in. It's not a culture issue, it's a simply matter of them being able to do the work. The "culture" you talk about for schools like Harvard is that once you're in you are capable of doing the work they require, not that the work is easy. My masters is from Duke and I have family who have degress from several highly ranked liberal arts schools. We have this mindset as Tech fans that the work is easy...it's not, it's just that the admissions standards are so rigorous that everyone can handle it. The grading might be easier but the classwork isn't. As far as exceptions, we do allow some but the reason we don't take more is those guys end up flunking out more often than not. Personally i would like us to trust the coaching staff more, but when you lose players to academics it impacts your future classes. Finally, people like to look at the 2007 class, but don't want to admit that very few of those kids graduated or even finished 4 years. If we had the same rules now as we did then, football would be penalized with scholarship losses on an annual basis. [/QUOTE]
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