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I saw a stat during tis game which siad that the ave SAT score for students at Wake and GTech was over 1320...how are schools with much tougher academics than SMU beating us on the field?

Great conference, great coaching, and at least in Wake's case, they played very few youngsters (QB excepted, of course). Announcers said something about how damn-near everyone on the roster had redshirted, and they were starting more than a dozen fifth-year seniors. That helps immeasurably.

you said students-what makes you think athletes are admitted as students?

exactly my point

if school that are better in academics than us don't care - why should we?

that's great raplh wrote:I saw a stat during tis game which siad that the ave SAT score for students at Wake and GTech was over 1320...how are schools with much tougher academics than SMU beating us on the field?

Get the facts first! Your GPA in HS can be above 3.0 and you can score 800 and get into most of the universities, even SMU. It is not hard to have a 3.0 GPA in HS these days. In Texas the testing is the biggest part of school. Classroom is ridiculous, no learning just preparing to test? Several football players at SMU scored below the requirements on the SAT/ACT, whatever, but their HS GPA was good enough. Average is the key to what you are saying also.

its done on a sliding scale. All SMU recruits were full qualifiers at least by the key date of August 1. All SMU recruits have passed the NCAA Clearing House by that date. There are some late qualifiers though-kids qualifying between signing date and reporting date-but they are few and far between.

Wake has become competitive because they have dramatically relaxed their academic standards for athletic admissions...their coach was talking about this in a recent interview...as part of Wake's administration's "commitment" to fielding a championship caliber football team

Even Stanford takes exceptions, I don't think prop 48, but not the TU model (Texas University).

[quote="Charleston Pony"]Wake has become competitive because they have dramatically relaxed their academic standards for athletic admissions...their coach was talking about this in a recent interview...as part of Wake's administration's "commitment" to fielding a championship caliber football team[/quote

PB talked about trying to get the academic standards lowered. This would help out in the recruiting process greatly.

that's great raplh wrote:I saw a stat during tis game which siad that the ave SAT score for students at Wake and GTech was over 1320...how are schools with much tougher academics than SMU beating us on the field?

That is based upon 2400 dude, new SAT scoring system

PhirePhilBennett wrote:

that's great raplh wrote:I saw a stat during tis game which siad that the ave SAT score for students at Wake and GTech was over 1320...how are schools with much tougher academics than SMU beating us on the field?

That is based upon 2400 dude, new SAT scoring system

that translates to somewhere in the 800's in the old system