So the article is about Notre Dame and how the head coach has come out and explained that the entire team beside 2 kids are always at-risk academically. Here is the link to the article.... http://www.foxsports.com/college-fo...all-of-my-football-players-are-at-risk-061115
This article highlights exactly why players/recruits/parents/coaches/guardians/etc. MUST, MUST, MUST strongly factor in a teams past performance pertaining to its players success in the classroom. (Which happens to be one of Rutgers greatest strengths!!! I have been preaching about this success to everyone in person and on this message board and yet people didn't seem to care much if at all despite how critically important it is to our teams success and also to our overall university "karma" and "goodwill." Rutgers is doing right by its players/families by committing the effort and resources to make sure its athletes do well in the classroom. This makes sure that those players who don't play football professionally will STILL succeed in the corporate world. The University and Flood are proving to the world and the recruits just the kind of place Rutgers is and the type of people we are here. Also, the CONTINUED success with athletes in the classroom at Rutgers proves that there is a STRONG SYSTEM / PROCESS in place to help them thrive and that a new recruit will be able to plug into that system just as the previous players have done and do well.
Classroom success leads to better play on the field as well because the players can focus solely on the practice/game and NOT on which government would benefit the lower class citizens of the Roman Empire the most.
Oh and for the record, according to the Center for World University Rankings, Rutgers is the 33rd ranked institution to attend/graduate from while Notre Dame is also ranked a very respectable 64th in the world. So obviously Rutgers is doing an excellent job making sure players of ALL education levels and ability are still able to perform at a high level because of the INCREDIBLE support system we have in place.
A personal story I can give is I remember when Anthony Davis was attending Rutgers and I saw he was in one of my classes along with my buddy who was on the lacrosse team. I was very surprised because this course was a prerequisite for the Business School (back when you couldn't get accepted straight out of HS) so this course was by no means an "easy" class. So I asked my lacrosse buddy how he and Anthony Davis were going to be able to pull of this class. And he gave me the ENTIRE RUN DOWN on the incredible academic support system that Rutgers surrounds its athletes with. The whole run down is way too long for this already too long post, but the general gist of what he said was that the support staff took a BIG PICTURE approach and ALSO dealt with the small stuff.
For example, one of the most important things that the athletes designated support person does is help them design their schedule to accommodate their sports schedules. This is key because an optimally designed class schedule can make a semester full of "hard" classes and make it feel easy. There are like 10 other things the support staff do as well to make sure all the athletes succeed, but I will save those for a different post/thread to minimize the length of this post.
So the point is clear. Rutgers has a SIGNIFICANT ADVANTAGE over all other universities and teams because we were one of the first to recognize the importance of investing time, money, and effort into the athlete's academic support staff. Something like this is not cheap and cannot just be created overnight which is why despite being one of the top universities in the world, we are still graduating our athletes and football players at one of the highest rates in the country while other schools are consistently struggling with its football players academics and leaving its players high and dry because they aren't graduating and therefore were essentially just playing football for free for the university.
Flood and the coaches should be SCREAMING this from the rooftop that if you come to Rutgers and you are ready to work...... then you basically have guaranteed yourself that you will either end up in the NFL or you will end up with a diploma and the accompanying success in the corporate/business world that a Rutgers diploma brings!
This article highlights exactly why players/recruits/parents/coaches/guardians/etc. MUST, MUST, MUST strongly factor in a teams past performance pertaining to its players success in the classroom. (Which happens to be one of Rutgers greatest strengths!!! I have been preaching about this success to everyone in person and on this message board and yet people didn't seem to care much if at all despite how critically important it is to our teams success and also to our overall university "karma" and "goodwill." Rutgers is doing right by its players/families by committing the effort and resources to make sure its athletes do well in the classroom. This makes sure that those players who don't play football professionally will STILL succeed in the corporate world. The University and Flood are proving to the world and the recruits just the kind of place Rutgers is and the type of people we are here. Also, the CONTINUED success with athletes in the classroom at Rutgers proves that there is a STRONG SYSTEM / PROCESS in place to help them thrive and that a new recruit will be able to plug into that system just as the previous players have done and do well.
Classroom success leads to better play on the field as well because the players can focus solely on the practice/game and NOT on which government would benefit the lower class citizens of the Roman Empire the most.
Oh and for the record, according to the Center for World University Rankings, Rutgers is the 33rd ranked institution to attend/graduate from while Notre Dame is also ranked a very respectable 64th in the world. So obviously Rutgers is doing an excellent job making sure players of ALL education levels and ability are still able to perform at a high level because of the INCREDIBLE support system we have in place.
A personal story I can give is I remember when Anthony Davis was attending Rutgers and I saw he was in one of my classes along with my buddy who was on the lacrosse team. I was very surprised because this course was a prerequisite for the Business School (back when you couldn't get accepted straight out of HS) so this course was by no means an "easy" class. So I asked my lacrosse buddy how he and Anthony Davis were going to be able to pull of this class. And he gave me the ENTIRE RUN DOWN on the incredible academic support system that Rutgers surrounds its athletes with. The whole run down is way too long for this already too long post, but the general gist of what he said was that the support staff took a BIG PICTURE approach and ALSO dealt with the small stuff.
For example, one of the most important things that the athletes designated support person does is help them design their schedule to accommodate their sports schedules. This is key because an optimally designed class schedule can make a semester full of "hard" classes and make it feel easy. There are like 10 other things the support staff do as well to make sure all the athletes succeed, but I will save those for a different post/thread to minimize the length of this post.
So the point is clear. Rutgers has a SIGNIFICANT ADVANTAGE over all other universities and teams because we were one of the first to recognize the importance of investing time, money, and effort into the athlete's academic support staff. Something like this is not cheap and cannot just be created overnight which is why despite being one of the top universities in the world, we are still graduating our athletes and football players at one of the highest rates in the country while other schools are consistently struggling with its football players academics and leaving its players high and dry because they aren't graduating and therefore were essentially just playing football for free for the university.
Flood and the coaches should be SCREAMING this from the rooftop that if you come to Rutgers and you are ready to work...... then you basically have guaranteed yourself that you will either end up in the NFL or you will end up with a diploma and the accompanying success in the corporate/business world that a Rutgers diploma brings!