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What Team GPA is required to win the CFP National Championship?
An amazing accomplishment, considering players actually have to go to class and do real work!
Awesome! Congratulations to our players.
Never fails that some people just feel the need to crap on our team whenever something positive happens.
Never fails that some people just feel the need to crap on our team whenever something positive happens.
actually might be the number of times you and some others appreciate what the program accomplishes academically and on the field of play , compared to the times you mock the program for what it doesn't obtain on the field .
It's easy to find things to mock, when you don't want to praise someone doing what makes the the RU Football program look good under him.
I say kudos for the players looking like student/athletes representing Rutgers University and the coaching staff that helped make the grade. Seems like that's something Schiano has proven he does well , even if he hasn't brought home the NC we all desire for the RU Football program
We look at RU players more like pros because of the NIL money being tossed around , the players just fooled us and shown they are RU students we can be proud of .
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What is the real number? I like to see the math. Can’t wait for the reasons why a W is really a L explanations or why the team wasn’t really ranked.
Some of you can't show an ounce of pride. Macho macho men-- in their own minds.
It's sad that people's lives are so miserable they can't stand when anything good happens
Love the way RU Fans can turn an accomplishment by the players into a knock on the coach.
Turning something to be proud of into something we can regret. 🤬
Turning something to be proud of into something we can regret. 🤬
And a shout out to Scott Walker who heads up academic support!
Honestly, this mattered a lot more before college football essentially became the NFL G-League.
You can follow the XFL. I enjoy the fact we still treat it as COLLEGE football
I agree that it mattered a lot more pre NIL, but I think academics still mean a lot for some/many who realize their son may or may not make it to the NFL. And certainly that includes underrated HS players who aren’t four or five star (rating of which is not an exact science). I guess my bottom line is that academics in most cases may not be the main driver, but still is an important factor and something we should strive to continue in pursuit of excellence.
You can enjoy pretending it is still old-time college football, but that's like my daughter pretending she was Elsa several years ago (i.e., a fantasy).
I don’t have to pretend. They go to classes and get good grades. That’s enough for me
It’s pro sports. So it really doesn’t matter.
Let’s be honest some of these guys take the easiest classes posssibile and “take advantage” of the academic support system Rutgers has. Remember schiano put this system in place in 2001 so his players wouldn’t flunk out like what happened to anderson, graber and shea.
But ok let’s say the GPA stuff matters. Is this really that great of an accomplishment? Ohio state had a 3.2 GPA last academic year…. These types of GPA’s seem to be the norm (see the Schiano strategy of easy classes and academic support). It’s this way at all the football factories , even Rutgers. It would be hard as hell to have a tough major and play college football at this level.
Based on this rutgers isn’t even in the top half of the league in APR…
Ranking all 18 Big Ten football teams by academic progress rate
The Big Ten is the premier athletic conference that excels in academics!
wolverineswire.usatoday.com
+1It’s pro sports. So it really doesn’t matter.
Let’s be honest some of these guys take the easiest classes posssibile and “take advantage” of the academic support system Rutgers has. Remember schiano put this system in place in 2001 so his players wouldn’t flunk out like what happened to anderson, graber and shea.
But ok let’s say the GPA stuff matters. Is this really that great of an accomplishment? Ohio state had a 3.2 GPA last academic year…. These types of GPA’s seem to be the norm (see the Schiano strategy of easy classes and academic support). It’s this way at all the football factories , even Rutgers. It would be hard as hell to have a tough major and play college football at this level.
Based on this rutgers isn’t even in the top half of the league in APR…
Ranking all 18 Big Ten football teams by academic progress rate
The Big Ten is the premier athletic conference that excels in academics!
Good post. Paid them more to practice, not take classes. When in Rome.....
Oh god. Rutgers is no different than 99% of other schools. I bet almost every class taken by RU football players is online
And on the basketball side sometimes you get a Myles Johnson.It would be hard as hell to have a tough major and play college football at this level.
Ranking all 18 Big Ten football teams by academic progress rate
The Big Ten is the premier athletic conference that excels in academics!
What % of kids move on to the pros from college? It’s funny everyone thinks they are pros. Most of them need to get a degree to find work after college.
That is true yes .
Lots of them do get degrees , especially at football factories .
Yep. He was brilliant and what he did was extraordinary.
Sometimes you get guys on campus for 9 months and leave after getting 12 credits
Regardless of other schools, NIL or on-line classes.....playing college football seems like the equivalent of a full time job. Taking 16 credits even if on-line while holding down a full time job seems like it would be a handful for most people. That's 4-5 courses, each with likely multiple classes/lectures per week not including recitations, homework, studying, exams etc. On top of practice, travel, games, film work, coaching lectures, community service, appearances and studying playbooks.
This is the life the athletes asked for, but some here are going way over the top to minimize the work that goes in and any accomplishments.....simply because perhaps 10-15% of the athletes at the top are making NIL of significance and/or leveraging a short term college stay to then turn pro.
I don’t think anyone is minimizing it. It is hard as hell to play football at this level and then do classes. It’s gotta be very difficult. It’s just not a big deal in professional sports though. Even if we were to really care , we were 13 in the league in APR, that’s not great.
Bottom line it’s all about winning football games. Credit to those guys that want to get a good education too
Have no idea why you are bringing up NIL.
And I know what it takes, I played 2 different D1 sports and both my daughters play D- sports. All while having a double major. If you don’t think online classes make a huge difference than I don’t know wha to tell you
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