Tech has the smartest football team in the nation.

"More than half of scholarship athletes at the University of Georgia, the University of Wisconsin, Clemson University, UCLA, Rutgers University, Texas A&M University and Louisiana State University were special admits."

whoa
 
This is just more AJC bias towards UGA, or maybe not.
Note: 3 of the SEC's finest in the bottom 10, none of the SEC in the top 10. Only surprise there for me was Florida, I would not have guessed they would be 51st out of 54. I also would have thought Duke would make the top 10. I wish they provided the entire list.
 
Georgia Tech’s football players had the nation’s best average SAT score, 1028 of a possible 1600, and best average high school GPA, 3.39 of a possible 4.0 in the core curriculum. But Tech’s football players still scored 315 SAT points lower on average than their classmates.


At the University of Georgia, the average football SAT was 949, which is 239 points behind the average for an undergraduate student at Georgia — and 79 points behind Tech’s football average. The Bulldogs’ average high school GPA was 2.77, or 45th out of 53 teams for which football GPAs were available. Their SAT average ranked them 22nd.
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Heh.

The numbers, however, show special admissions exceptions are used far more often for athletes than oboists. At Georgia, for instance, 73.5 percent of athletes were special admits compared with 6.6 percent of the student body as a whole.
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73.5%! Wow...
 
I'm trying really hard not to make a cynical remark about the use of "smartest" in this context.
 
Rodzilla said:
73.5%! Wow...
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One of the GT blogs had a similar study as a story awhile back, from the late 90's/early 2000's. It basically found the same thing, BUT one thing this study shows that the AJC does not (or at least I didn't see when I scanned it) is the fact that 94% of the UGA football players didn't meet institutional admission standards.

Here's a PDF Chart of the data
http://www.indystar.com/assets/pdf/BG11724397.PDF
 
yeah shame on Duke and Stanford especially. Shows how much they are cheating and still losing.
 
When we get our full offense implemented and all of our players know how to make adjustments at half as to what the other defense is doing(due to their intelligence) we are going to see some BIG second halves.

We'll also see a lot of D's (georgia's included) with guys standing around thinking(in my best cartoon voice) "Duuuh, which way did he go?"
 
buzztheirazz said:
"More than half of scholarship athletes at the University of Georgia, the University of Wisconsin, Clemson University, UCLA, Rutgers University, Texas A&M University and Louisiana State University were special admits."

whoa
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The late Jan Kemp is rolling over in her grave.
 
Here is the link to the original story.

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nate said:
One of the GT blogs had a similar study as a story awhile back, from the late 90's/early 2000's. It basically found the same thing, BUT one thing this study shows that the AJC does not (or at least I didn't see when I scanned it) is the fact that 94% of the UGA football players didn't meet institutional admission standards.

Here's a PDF Chart of the data
http://www.indystar.com/assets/pdf/BG11724397.PDF
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cyptomcat said:
yeah shame on Duke and Stanford especially. Shows how much they are cheating and still losing.
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This was only for public BCS + a few other schools that were in the top 25 of basketball or football; they had to use public request records to get the info. Stanford and Duke are both private.
 
This is a great post. I will definitely be forwarding this article to all my friends from LSU, UGA, and UF.
 
Congrats to Chan Gailey on this one. I wonder how much the study is skewed by a couple of Darryl Richards? Regardless, it is awesome to see.
 
This point is why focus on graduation rates in isolation leads to misleading results.

“The problem is there’s a huge world of Mickey Mouse courses and special curriculums that athletes are steered into,” said Murray Sperber, a visiting professor in the University of California’s graduate school of education and the author of four books about college athletics and college life. “The problem is there are many athletes graduating from schools who are semiliterate.”
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It is better to have people flunk out than graduate if those degrees are meaningless.

We want to get graduation rates up without compromising the value of the degree earned. Early departures to go pro should not count against graduation rates.
 
midatlantech said:
Congrats to Chan Gailey on this one. I wonder how much the study is skewed by a couple of Darryl Richards? Regardless, it is awesome to see.
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We are all taking this from a positive view.

The negative spin is that GT has a greater difference between FB players and the general student population. Of course this is consistent with other schools with high standards and makes sense in that the more "average" the general student population is, the easier it should be to get athletes closer to that average.
 
I just realized something. The AJC did an investigative journalism piece. I didn't think they had it in 'em...
 
lonestarjacket said:
We are all taking this from a positive view.

The negative spin is that GT has a greater difference between FB players and the general student population. Of course this is consistent with other schools with high standards and makes sense in that the more "average" the general student population is, the easier it should be to get athletes closer to that average.
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I think the main reason for the diff between athletes and the general student population is the fact that most athletes are in the management program. I'd like to see the numbers for the difference between athletes and management students.

I don't mean this as a slam on our management program. I think our management program is one of the best business programs in the country. So you management dudes, chill out.
 
This should really help in recruiting. And somebody needs to send this article to that recruit that Spurrier was/is trying to wrestle away from UNC.

This is stunning news. I had no idea.
 
This plus having a really sharp coaching staff plus being in Atlanta plus a really good crop in Georgia next year (or so I have heard) should mean another class along the lines of the one from the year before last. We won't get every kid we want but we have to stick out for enough of them such that we can get a damned good 24 or 25.
 
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