re: 22 Georgia football players are literally illiterate

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I've long advocated for this even though it would hurt UF, Vandy and UG the most.

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Disagree - instead of competing for 5* recruits who would need tutors for remedial classes, you'd have 3* recruits who would actually consider the academic reputations of schools they were considering.

Since most schools have a sliding scale for admissions requirements, perhaps the NCAA (or whatever governing body replaces it) can set a reasonable minimum for all schools based on national medians. At AU the median for ACT is in the 24-30 range for incoming FR, I just checked UF and the minimum for consideration is 19 (although I expect the median for enrollees is probably higher than AU's).

If anything, I would think that UF and UGa would have a leg up on AU under my described scenario. In the end, kids would make their decisions less on "who's gonna get me to the League" and more on "which school will look better on my resume".

As was stated during the Jan Kemp scandal trial...

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O. Hale Almand Jr., a lawyer for the defense, offered a justification for the favorable treatment accorded the athletes, citing a hypothetical player. “We may not make a university student out of him,” he told the jury, “but if we can teach him to read and write, maybe he can work at the post office rather than as a garbageman when he gets through with his athletic career.”

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So a university is supposed to not worry about making a kid into a university student? What in the world?

I guess that somebody is you

Real talk though, this type of illiteracy and athletics goes on at many major universities. We'll feign shock and appaull, but as a society won't do anything about it.

There are over 440000 kids in classrooms today have a reading vocabulary of fewer than 50 words. 40% of African American and Latino students do not get a HS diploma. On average 3000 kids nationwide drop out of HS every day and if a person scores in the bottom 20th percentile on the state reading tests he/she is 25 TIMES more likely to drop out.

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This problem is not about Georgia.

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okay....except the thread

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You got denied admission, didn't you? Maybe you should have been better at sports.

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fricking lulz on both counts.

again, typical UGA fans, act like UGA is above and beyond everyone until yall get called out. then its, but it happens everywhere. or until yall talk about tech. the blind delusions some of yall have on this topic. its funny as well when you talk about UGA being this pillar of academics, until you are making fun of better school like tech.

ETA. And I guess yall forgot the threads a week or so ago where UGA posters where trying to call out AU for not having any academic casualties before the bowl because yall are better than us

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I do consider the powers that be at UGA for handing this over to CNN to be idiots.

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After the Jan Kemp scandal, UGA has generally been forthcoming about academic statistics for student-athletes.

this isn't really a crime to push student athletes through and in they have a degree but have little to offer. thousands upon thousands of college graduates each year have nothing to offer an employer and no ability to work for themselves.

what should be a crime though is how much colleges charge to provide people with degrees that are worthless. I think I saw somewhere a Yale coed graduated with a $300,000 degree that basically enables her to get a job as a social worker making $25,000.