Cole Beasley, an SMU product, quoted in WSJ.com

[BigT3x]

Is the word "retar-ded" seriously filtered on this board? My oh my.

Hilarious that the average age of our fanbase matches that of a Luby's dining room, yet we have this idiotic "think of the children!!" crap on here.

[SMU2007]

SMU2007, why is the article [deleted].

I think the premise of the article is dumb. I'm not criticizing you. In the words of Arnold as Mr Freeze in Batman and Robin: "alright everyone. chill!"

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SRH-Ywpz1_ ... RH-Ywpz1_I

[HarvCrimYaleBlue]

Anyone else a bit disappointed that someone who went to college has to look up what the pythagorean theorem is?

I have seen a lot of rant posts about "athlete friendly" course curriculum and that SMU's standards are much higher than those at other institutions. Then there was the article about NCAA raising athlete GPA standards that wil finally put them on par with SMU's historic standards.

That's a lot of blah, but all I am trying to say is that the "joe average" football player has a persona of not being very bright- see SEC.

[GRGB]

But see SMU's Jay Scott. Smart dude.


http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?sec ... id=6932700

The majors winning the popularity contest vary from school to school.

Vanderbilt is considered the toughest academic school in the football-crazy Southeastern Conference, which is usually cited as the reason the Commodores perennially wind up at the bottom of the league standings. And yet 35 of 59 non-freshmen were going for the same degree.

By the way, what is human and organizational development anyway?

At Cincinnati, 40 players picked criminal justice as their major. At Mississippi State, 30 players have declared in kinesiology. Sports administration is the choice of 28 players at LSU. Twenty-one Iowa players are majoring in interdepartmental studies, while 20 players Clemson went with sociology.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 76844.html

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/c ... phic_N.htm