Who was the Professor?

[LakeHighlandsPony]

Who flunked Kennedy? I want names.

[SMU 86]

[LakeHighlandsPony]

He probably flunked me too.

[smusic 00]

He didn't flunk anything.

[LakeHighlandsPony]

When is the last time you heard an LSU, Auburn or Bama player did not make grades.

[smusic 00]

But I think I know who's class it was that he struggled with, and when I took his class it was full of FB players who thought it would be an easy class (based on subject matter). The reading requirement was difficult, basically a book a week with written assignments and quizzes to accompany them. Prof was very fair but very demanding, even more so of the athletes.

[RebStang]

When is the last time you heard an LSU, Auburn or Bama player did not make grades.

LSU had 4 players that had to sit out the 2012 season because of grades in football.

Auburn was accused of academic fraud just a couple years ago (found themselves innocent and the NCAA just looked the other way in order to protect the already tainted national championship they bought... I mean won... with Cam Newton).

Alabama hasn't had one under Saban but anyone that knows anything about Alabama knows that the football program truly runs that university. Don't get me wrong... it's a very good school... but, any professor that didn't give one of his starters an appropriate grade would probably have to explain himself to Nick Saban and their AD... and the grade would be changed to reflect what the athletic department wanted.

I'm also going to point out that SEC schools provide more academic support for athletes than just about any other league.

Ole Miss has the FedEx Student-Athlete Academic Center that employs over 180 tutors. Every team has at least 1 full time academic adviser (larger teams like football have 4 or 5) that works with coaches, players, academic advisers, and even faculty to make sure that athletes are on track in their courses. I saw something the other day where the head of the FedEx Center said that they have over 800 tutoring appointments scheduled a week for a total of about 400 athletes... that means just about every athlete is there twice a week for tutoring and academic advising.

[fifty]

History is a very important subject.

[RebStang]

History is a very important subject.

It is if you're a history major.

[smusic 00]

When is the last time you heard an LSU, Auburn or Bama player did not make grades.

LSU had 4 players that had to sit out the 2012 season because of grades in football.

Auburn was accused of academic fraud just a couple years ago (found themselves innocent and the NCAA just looked the other way in order to protect the already tainted national championship they bought... I mean won... with Cam Newton).

Alabama hasn't had one under Saban but anyone that knows anything about Alabama knows that the football program truly runs that university. Don't get me wrong... it's a very good school... but, any professor that didn't give one of his starters an appropriate grade would probably have to explain himself to Nick Saban and their AD... and the grade would be changed to reflect what the athletic department wanted.

I'm also going to point out that SEC schools provide more academic support for athletes than just about any other league.

Ole Miss has the FedEx Student-Athlete Academic Center that employs over 180 tutors. Every team has at least 1 full time academic adviser (larger teams like football have 4 or 5) that works with coaches, players, academic advisers, and even faculty to make sure that athletes are on track in their courses. I saw something the other day where the head of the FedEx Center said that they have over 800 tutoring appointments scheduled a week for a total of about 400 athletes... that means just about every athlete is there twice a week for tutoring and academic advising.

I think a major complaint from is that, unlike what you described at Ole Miss, SMU does not have a support center for athletes that is separate from what is available to the general student population.

[RebStang]

When is the last time you heard an LSU, Auburn or Bama player did not make grades.

Ole Miss has the FedEx Student-Athlete Academic Center that employs over 180 tutors. Every team has at least 1 full time academic adviser (larger teams like football have 4 or 5) that works with coaches, players, academic advisers, and even faculty to make sure that athletes are on track in their courses. I saw something the other day where the head of the FedEx Center said that they have over 800 tutoring appointments scheduled a week for a total of about 400 athletes... that means just about every athlete is there twice a week for tutoring and academic advising.

I think a major complaint from is that, unlike what you described at Ole Miss, SMU does not have a support center for athletes that is separate from what is available to the general student population.

Which is completely ridiculous. Student-athletes have an entirely different set of demands on their time than "regular" students. Regardless of how intelligent they are, they need more academic support than their non-athlete peers.

[smusic 00]

Absolutely agree, and so do LB and the boosters.

[smusic 00]

With an extra $40/mil/year think of what we could do.

[Big12Mustang]

The A-LEC was made with athletes in mind and it is conveniently located in Ford....I don't think you can have a separate support structure not available to other students that want to use them.

[SMU 86]

The A-LEC was made with athletes in mind and it is conveniently located in Ford....I don't think you can have a separate support structure not available to other students that want to use them.

I think one of the problems that was mentioned is that SMU does not have many if hardly any full time tutors. The full tutors are needed really needed around finals time when the students that are tutors disappear to study themselves.