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Re: Cole Beasley, an SMU product, quoted in WSJ.com
Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 10:44 am
by BigT3x
SMU2007 wrote: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.
Re: Cole Beasley, an SMU product, quoted in WSJ.com
Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 11:17 am
by SMU2007
GRGB wrote: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
Re: Cole Beasley, an SMU product, quoted in WSJ.com
Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 11:44 am
by HarvCrimYaleBlue
Pony_Law wrote: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.
Re: Cole Beasley, an SMU product, quoted in WSJ.com
Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 12:42 pm
by 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