It's an SEC ad that claims they have 'more' 'student' athletes - i.e. Academic All-Americans - than any conference in the nation.
Well I sure hope so.
Here's why:
They have more schools than any other conference (12) except one that has the same amount - which means all things being equal, they would have more athletes to choose from.
So with only that in mind, if the GPA's were the same across every conference in the nation, the SEC would only have one conference to compete with for the 'most' Academic AA's.
These schools have more sports programs each, which again means a larger pool to choose from. Gymnastics and Women's Golf alone for each SEC school adds many more Academic AA's than conferences like ours that don't have many of those programs. Anytime you have female athletic programs, you up the grad rate and GPA.
And the worst - they have majors like Recreation and Leisure Studies (not a joke), Criminal Justice, and Physical Education, and we know what kinds of tests the PE guys take.
A better quote would be a higher percentage of athletes involved in school would be more accurate, but even with the useless majors they have, they can't claim that, so they don't.
It's not UGA's fault. I've decided it's a trickle down effect. Top down economics so to speak.
So how many guys do you have that can't spell their name or beat their pregnant wife last week? If you 'only' look at "UGA" "In only the last month", I can think of Howard McMichael, who is now in jail, or the kid that had to transfer to the state that seems to have no problem with hummers under the desk between President Clinton and now Grant (at least they kept him in the conference so he can be an Academic AA too) - or the punter that just got booted for undisclosed reasons. That's just the guys in state and only last month.
No wonder they are talking about Student Athletes. It's what they have to do to make us forget about the weekly occurances at every one of their wacko schools.
Alright. Enough already. Ay yi yi...
Well I sure hope so.
Here's why:
They have more schools than any other conference (12) except one that has the same amount - which means all things being equal, they would have more athletes to choose from.
So with only that in mind, if the GPA's were the same across every conference in the nation, the SEC would only have one conference to compete with for the 'most' Academic AA's.
These schools have more sports programs each, which again means a larger pool to choose from. Gymnastics and Women's Golf alone for each SEC school adds many more Academic AA's than conferences like ours that don't have many of those programs. Anytime you have female athletic programs, you up the grad rate and GPA.
And the worst - they have majors like Recreation and Leisure Studies (not a joke), Criminal Justice, and Physical Education, and we know what kinds of tests the PE guys take.
A better quote would be a higher percentage of athletes involved in school would be more accurate, but even with the useless majors they have, they can't claim that, so they don't.
It's not UGA's fault. I've decided it's a trickle down effect. Top down economics so to speak.
So how many guys do you have that can't spell their name or beat their pregnant wife last week? If you 'only' look at "UGA" "In only the last month", I can think of Howard McMichael, who is now in jail, or the kid that had to transfer to the state that seems to have no problem with hummers under the desk between President Clinton and now Grant (at least they kept him in the conference so he can be an Academic AA too) - or the punter that just got booted for undisclosed reasons. That's just the guys in state and only last month.
No wonder they are talking about Student Athletes. It's what they have to do to make us forget about the weekly occurances at every one of their wacko schools.
Alright. Enough already. Ay yi yi...