Ex-Miami TE Jerome Washington close to signing with Rutgers

[retired711]

Listen , I think you mean well and i agree that academics should matter . But the fact is they really don't . Barchi isn't a football or basketball coach . And yeah sure schiano did a lot to supposedly improve academic support. But check the media coverage of when he left for tampa bay , did they mention his football record at Rutgers or his academic accomplishments ? The latter was not mentioned Do you think urban Meyer cared how many Rutgers players graduated under schiano or can he coach up the Buckeyes defense ?
Camden, I don't disagree with you . I am just telling you how it is at this level .

Thanks for your very civil reply. Actually, my recollection is that the University has garnered a lot of good will in the media (and with the faculty, to the extent that matters) for the athletic program by excellent performances in the APR rankings. But in the last analysis, it's not what football coaches think or what the media think that matters. What matters is that Rutgers as an institution has made a big commitment to having athletes doing well. I don't think a coach at Rutgers could get away for long with recruiting kids, no matter how athletically talented, who can't do the academic work. Barchi and McCormick before him made clear that that the sports program has to be academically sound, and I read Ash as having bought into that.

I'm not sure we're going to convince the other, so maybe we should stop this, but I'll let you be the judge of that.

 

[retired711]

Class! Class! Class!
Today's lesson is: How to disagree without rancor.
Ok . . . . . . . I admit. I'm not sure how to teach that. . . . . . . Can we talk about
Chemistry perhaps? Or Physical Science? That I can do. :)

I have to tell you that I was *terrible* in Chemistry in high school. Avogardo's law is still a total mystery to me. I don't really understand why this was, except that my high school course in chemistry was basically an exercise in memorizing odd facts about, say, who makes use of sulfur. Interestingly enough, one of my older sisters just retired from a career in chemistry.

 

[daneman100]

I think keeping up with Kenny Parker will be the bigger challenge. He has a full year to get himself going academically and conditioning. I don't think Ash's folks will let him fail.

 

[SkilletHead2]

I have to tell you that I was *terrible* in Chemistry in high school. Avogardo's law is still a total mystery to me. I don't really understand why this was, except that my high school course in chemistry was basically an exercise in memorizing odd facts about, say, who makes use of sulfur. Interestingly enough, one of my older sisters just retired from a career in chemistry.

That's because it was Avogadro's law. Avogardo's law, if I'm not mistaken, was about making guacamole.

 

[RU4Real]

That's because it was Avogadro's law. Avogardo's law, if I'm not mistaken, was about making guacamole.

I thought Avogadro's law was the one about velocity and pressure.

 

[retired711]

I thought Avogadro's law was the one about velocity and pressure.

It seems to be about volume and pressure, which Is probably you meant rather than velocity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avogadro's_law

 

[Knight Shift]

It seems to be about volume and pressure, which Is probably you meant rather than velocity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avogadro's_law

You guys are killing it. Avogadro is rolling over in his grave. Sorry. I was an engineering major.

 

[jmg75]

That's because it was Avogadro's law. Avogardo's law, if I'm not mistaken, was about making guacamole.

That's it exactly. Avogadro's law dictated the addition of lemon or lime juice (ascorbic acid) to the guacamole to prevent premature browning.

 

[tychicus]

always learned it as the Avogadro's Principle...

 

[RU4Real]

always learned it as the Avogadro's Principle...

No... that was Mr. Feeney.

 

[miketd1]

I was doing pretty good in chem until they introduced the mole...

 

[Doctor Worm]

That's it exactly. Avogadro's law dictated the addition of lemon or lime juice (ascorbic acid) to the guacamole to prevent
premature browning.

Don't you mean Avocado's Law?

 

[jmg75]

Don't you mean Avocado's Law?

Well they were cousins. To this day nobody is really sure who should get the credit.

 

[retired711]

I was doing pretty good in chem until they introduced the mole...

which was what, the first week?

 

[miketd1]

Lol, no. You have to get through the periodic table, molecular shapes, and energy structures first, IIRC

 

[retired711]

Lol, no. You have to get through the periodic table, molecular shapes, and energy structures first, IIRC

Mike, I remember the mole from early in my "honors" high school chemistry course, which I washed out of after one semester. Even professors have things in their academic pasts that they are not proud of!

 

[ruready07]

There was a time when we'd be doing backflips if a 4 star transferred our way. Expectations have certainly been raised over the years. It's a good thing

If ash and company want him, then bring him on. Sometimes talent is unleashed only when the conditions are right , Miami could have been a bad fit

 

[miketd1]

Mike, I remember the mole from early in my "honors" high school chemistry course, which I washed out of after one semester. Even professors have things in their academic pasts that they are not proud of!

Lol, it came right after the subjects mentioned bc balancing equations was next and that's where we used it.

 

[RU Husky]

I was doing pretty good in chem until they introduced the mole...

I'm not much of a fan of Mexican food either

 

[Fzacsattac]

Well they were cousins. To this day nobody is really sure who should get the credit.

Avocado was a little green when he heard they credited his cousin with this.

 

[FELONIOUSMONK]

Is he REALLY close now?:)

 

[jmg75]

Avocado was a little green when he heard they credited his cousin with this.

Well yes he was. But he quickly countered with his famous number, 6.0221409e+23, which designates the number of molecules in a mole, regardless of the number of ingredients. History tells us he was a proponent of moles made with chilies, nuts, seeds, tomatoes, raisins, and chocolate. But the number of molecules in the mole would remain constant.

So Avogadro and his cousin Avogadro were titans in the development of guacamole and mole, two staples of modern Mexican food. Perhaps it matters not who gets the credit for what.