Started By
Message
UPDATED: Would you rather your school be elite in football or academics?
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:12 pm
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:12 pm
Say you had a choice, for your school to be truly elite in football for the rest of your lifetime or for them to start entering the conversation as top 10-20 academic school, what would you choose?
UPDATE: If you choose football/sports you are now a bottom academic school in all programs regardless of how you are currently ranked
If you choose academics you are bottom SEC school in sports
If you are good at football you are a bottom dweller in academics for major state institutions
If you are good at academics you are a bottom dweller of the SEC in football
Helpful hints for people
1- If your school is already good at football you must then start sucking at football
2- If you suck at football and academics (Examples are Miss St, Ole Miss, UK, USCe or UTK) then you can choose to be good at either FB or academics
2- Only school that is elite at Academics is Vandy and they can choose to give that up and be football or stay where they are at
UPDATE: If you choose football/sports you are now a bottom academic school in all programs regardless of how you are currently ranked
If you choose academics you are bottom SEC school in sports
If you are good at football you are a bottom dweller in academics for major state institutions
If you are good at academics you are a bottom dweller of the SEC in football
Helpful hints for people
1- If your school is already good at football you must then start sucking at football
2- If you suck at football and academics (Examples are Miss St, Ole Miss, UK, USCe or UTK) then you can choose to be good at either FB or academics
2- Only school that is elite at Academics is Vandy and they can choose to give that up and be football or stay where they are at
This post was edited on 8/16/14 at 6:38 pm
23
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:12 pm to GenesChin
Academics
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:13 pm to brucevilanch
This
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:13 pm to brucevilanch
quote:
Academics
Academics easily for me too.
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:14 pm to GenesChin
I've already graduated so frick academic reputation.
FOOTBALL
FOOTBALL
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:15 pm to GenesChin
quote:
If you suck at football and academics (Examples are Miss St, Ole Miss,
Huge misconception because of our admissions standards.
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:15 pm to hg
If I were smart enough to get in, Vandy would have been my school, or Stanford.
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:16 pm to Henry Jones Jr
quote:Ole Miss's business school rep is pretty bad from what I hear
Huge misconception because of our admissions standards.
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:17 pm to Henry Jones Jr
quote:
Huge misconception because of our admissions standards.
I meant to just highlight schools that don't have a history of being elite in either category
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:17 pm to GenesChin
Ole Miss was pretty salty in football for a few decades.
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:18 pm to MontyFranklyn
quote:
Ole Miss's business school rep is pretty bad from what I hear
Aren't all business schools shite nowadays?
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:19 pm to craigbiggio
quote:
I've already graduated so frick academic reputation.
FOOTBALL
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:20 pm to Henry Jones Jr
quote:Not Bama's, Virginia's or any Ivy League schools. I'm sure there are a lot more examples.
Aren't all business schools shite nowadays?
This post was edited on 8/16/14 at 5:22 pm
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:21 pm to GenesChin
So 60 or so years of elite football? Hell yeah I'm taking that. Just stay decent in academics.
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:21 pm to MontyFranklyn
quote:
Not Bama's
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:21 pm to hg
LSU is certainly no Vandy academically, just as Vandy is no LSU in athletics.
But LSU has hovered around the top academics wise, in grad rates amongst athletes, while maintaining a damn strong athletic program at the same time.
LSU may have the best blend of both in the SEC.
But LSU has hovered around the top academics wise, in grad rates amongst athletes, while maintaining a damn strong athletic program at the same time.
LSU may have the best blend of both in the SEC.
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:22 pm to GenesChin
Since Ole Miss is elite in neither and won't be for the foreseeable future...
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:22 pm to MontyFranklyn
quote:
Not Bama's, Virginia's or any Ivy League schools
One of these is not like the others
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:22 pm to GenesChin
Football. The program I'm in (Architecture) is consistently in the top 20 undergrad programs in the country (top 10 right now). I don't care about how the rest of the university is viewed academically as long as that keeps up.
Shoot for program prestige, not university prestige. Saves money.
Shoot for program prestige, not university prestige. Saves money.
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:22 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
What the frick is A&M elite in? 
Page 1 of 7
Popular
Back to top
Follow SECRant for SEC Football News