For the folks not in academia....

[SLUdog]

it is really not too difficult for a very stupid student-athlete to make a 2.5 average every semester, especially with the tutors and services available at most colleges and universities. I teach at a small college (about Millsaps' size), we offer accommodations to numerous students with diagnosed cognitive disabilities from ADD to autism.

 

[AssEndDawg]

it is really not too difficult for a very stupid student-athlete to make a 2.5 average every semester, especially with the tutors and services available at most colleges and universities. I teach at a small college (about Millsaps' size), we offer accommodations to numerous students with diagnosed cognitive disabilities from ADD to autism.

a 2.6 GPA my Freshmens year and I was drunk most of the time and only went to classes on Tuesday and Wednesday. Now, I'm smarter than the average football player so my point here is that with the amount of tutoring and support these guys get it makes sense a guy, even a dumb guy, could pull a 2.5.
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[pikedawg]

you major in interdisciplinary studies

 

[RebelBruiser]

you major in interdisciplinary studies

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Exactly. Except that I think our athlete majors are Criminal Justice and Leisure Management. Same thing though. Memphis has one named University College. That's got to be the most trumped up sounding major ever.

That's also why I always say that the only athletes that flunk out of school are the ones that don't make an effort. If you are an athlete, you show up to class, and you do your tutoring sessions, it's pretty difficult to not maintain your eligibility for 4 years if you take the athlete friendly majors.

Chris Strong failed out because he was lazy, not because he was stupid. He may not have been that bright to begin with, but he's out of school because he didn't make the effort.

 

[Delmar]

Yeah, but it's not too tough to pass High School either and there are plenty that can't do that.

 

[RaiderDawg24]

many of the athletes that could make the grade just don't try. Case in point, I taught a current starter on our football team a few semesters ago. For the first 2/3 of the class he never missed a day and was on the A/B border gradewise. The day after the athletic department asked for a progress report on him, he asked me how he was doing. I told him with just one test to go, he had a good chance for an A & he would have to bomb the final to fail the class. He missed the next 5 weeks worth of class and managed to bomb the final to the point he went from almost an A to barely and I mean barely passing. It wasn't that he couldn't do the work, its that he didn't care enough to try.