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<blockquote data-quote="Boomergump" data-source="post: 16077" data-attributes="member: 639"><p>If I hadn't gotten a scholarship to play sports at GT, it probably would have been 50/50 chance that I would have been admitted based on my own academic merits out of HS. In that sense I feel very fortunate. The academic support staff at the AA was phenomenal and helped a lot of kids get through, including myself at times. I can't tell you how thankful I am for that. I have my ME degree and I played sports. It was a great experience. Having said that, one of the worst things that can happen to a kid and a program is to lose players as academic casualties. It causes a huge disruption to both. I am not saying that athletes should be admitted by the same exact standards as the general student population, but we need to look through a realistic lens and determine if it is reasonable that the recruit can handle the work. I am not sure exactly how to do that. IMHO, we should NEVER bring in a kid that we are not CONFIDENT about succeeding academically just because he can play. There needs to be some judgment made about his character and ability to do school work. If it is tougher today, so be it. I will never stand and argue in favor of lowering standards. There is progress in the world and we all need to keep up. Compromises of the sort have been weakening this nation for a while now in many ways across the entire spectrum of our population and culture. If we are having a hard time recruiting, we need to do better at it. If it means we need to spend more, then spend more. If it means we need to triple the staff to cover the nation and the entire football playing community around the globe in order to find good players who can crack the books, then do it. I am perfectly happy to have the <strong>S</strong>pecial <strong>E</strong>ducation <strong>C</strong>onference keep ownership of the academic sham they have created. That is theirs. It is part of their identity. They can keep it. If they want to continue pumping ignoramuses in to the world for the sake of college sports, let them. At the GTAA we have always been about integrity and developing the total person. The way I see it, we have a moral responsibility to keep it that way. One of the things I absolutely love about CPJ is he gets that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Boomergump, post: 16077, member: 639"] If I hadn't gotten a scholarship to play sports at GT, it probably would have been 50/50 chance that I would have been admitted based on my own academic merits out of HS. In that sense I feel very fortunate. The academic support staff at the AA was phenomenal and helped a lot of kids get through, including myself at times. I can't tell you how thankful I am for that. I have my ME degree and I played sports. It was a great experience. Having said that, one of the worst things that can happen to a kid and a program is to lose players as academic casualties. It causes a huge disruption to both. I am not saying that athletes should be admitted by the same exact standards as the general student population, but we need to look through a realistic lens and determine if it is reasonable that the recruit can handle the work. I am not sure exactly how to do that. IMHO, we should NEVER bring in a kid that we are not CONFIDENT about succeeding academically just because he can play. There needs to be some judgment made about his character and ability to do school work. If it is tougher today, so be it. I will never stand and argue in favor of lowering standards. There is progress in the world and we all need to keep up. Compromises of the sort have been weakening this nation for a while now in many ways across the entire spectrum of our population and culture. If we are having a hard time recruiting, we need to do better at it. If it means we need to spend more, then spend more. If it means we need to triple the staff to cover the nation and the entire football playing community around the globe in order to find good players who can crack the books, then do it. I am perfectly happy to have the [B]S[/B]pecial [B]E[/B]ducation [B]C[/B]onference keep ownership of the academic sham they have created. That is theirs. It is part of their identity. They can keep it. If they want to continue pumping ignoramuses in to the world for the sake of college sports, let them. At the GTAA we have always been about integrity and developing the total person. The way I see it, we have a moral responsibility to keep it that way. One of the things I absolutely love about CPJ is he gets that. [/QUOTE]
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