Stallion wrote:or more likely core GPA-which are the 16 or so required courses by the NCAA upon which GPA is calculated for the purpose of admission. Its a sliding scale so technically it is a combination of both core GPA and SAT/ACT.
Thats correct. JWill barely made it in with a 3.8 gpa and 890 on his SAT?ACT. That is freaking ridiculous! At most D1 schools, football players think he is a genius. At SMU he had to go in frot of the reveiw board to get accepted.
Yeah I try to tell people all the time that there are guys with great GPAs that sometimes don't test high on the SAT/ACT or get a poor grade in a core class that don't qualify. Happens even more at the inner city schools or the poor rural schools. Also some kids are poorly advised and take the wrong classes((non-core)-then any mistake in the core classes can leave a kid ineligible.. Another point-how many kids WITH OPTIONS say Thanks/No Thanks when they tell the recruit about the review board?
Stallion wrote:Yeah I try to tell people all the time that there are guys with great GPAs that sometimes don't test high on the SAT/ACT or get a poor grade in a core class that don't qualify. Happens even more at the inner city schools or the poor rural schools. Also some kids are poorly advised and take the wrong classes((non-core)-then any mistake in the core classes can leave a kid ineligible.. Another point-how many kids WITH OPTIONS say Thanks/No Thanks when they tell the recruit about the review board?
The review board needs to be put to rest. A better name for it is exclusion board.
JWill came to SMN with 6-9 hrs of AP classes. so he was taking the right classes. This university is not athlete friendly. One thing people have to understand. 25 hours of football and 15 hours of classes is tough on any young man. We need someone in football office that can help with time management, study halls and just plain old following up with players. Ben Poynter is an extraordinary young man. I don't know what his major is, but he has my vote for anything he wants to do. Wow, what a young man!
C'mon, chill, that split school is nothing new in TX HS FB.
Plano HS virtually created the multi campus program back in their hey day.
On the other hand, many of the HS in the Houston area suburbs now have 5-6K kids in their HS. What's fair about that?
I prefer the old days, when HS FB had better recruiting than anybody in the SWC. Odessa Permian linked with oil field services companies back in the 70-80's to bring in sons of roughnecks from the oil fields of W.TX.
But I digress...
Riley appears to be like MO own Chase Daniel. Or, how about the too small too slow (HS recruiters said) QB that plays for New Orleans Saints? They may be shorter or whatever, but they don't believe it & they just win.
Something like the ole saying about the "fight in the dog rather than the dog in the fight".
We could do alot worse than wrestling "Dodgeball" away from UNT.
bigdaddy08091 wrote:The review board needs to be put to rest. A better name for it is exclusion board.
JWill came to SMN with 6-9 hrs of AP classes. so he was taking the right classes. This university is not athlete friendly. One thing people have to understand. 25 hours of football and 15 hours of classes is tough on any young man. We need someone in football office that can help with time management, study halls and just plain old following up with players. Ben Poynter is an extraordinary young man. I don't know what his major is, but he has my vote for anything he wants to do. Wow, what a young man!
Willis was in AP classes and had a 3.8 GPA but only managed a 890 SAT? What did he get on his AP tests?
Dodge threw up on the field and takes the snap 3 seconds later and throws the winning State Championship TD. I've seen all I need to see. Don't mess with this kid. A passing Lance McIllhenny.
bigdaddy08091 wrote:The review board needs to be put to rest. A better name for it is exclusion board.
JWill came to SMN with 6-9 hrs of AP classes. so he was taking the right classes. This university is not athlete friendly. One thing people have to understand. 25 hours of football and 15 hours of classes is tough on any young man. We need someone in football office that can help with time management, study halls and just plain old following up with players. Ben Poynter is an extraordinary young man. I don't know what his major is, but he has my vote for anything he wants to do. Wow, what a young man!
Willis was in AP classes and had a 3.8 GPA but only managed a 890 SAT? What did he get on his AP tests?
I was wondering the same. Just slightly above average the year he graduated HS (same year as me).
Sir, shooting-star, sir. Frosh 2005 (TEN YEARS AGO!?!) The original Heavy Metal.
Stallion wrote:Dodge threw up on the field and takes the snap 3 seconds later and throws the winning State Championship TD. I've seen all I need to see. Don't mess with this kid. A passing Lance McIllhenny.
Exactly, unbelievable effort on that play with presence of mind & mental toughness.
Some players have it & Riley's got "IT".
What a package deal made in the FB heaven's:
UT ex QB as your HC & his clone redshirting in the wings waiting for his day.
Please Mr. Orsini, no re-treads or overpaid has beens.
Stallion wrote:Dodge threw up on the field and takes the snap 3 seconds later and throws the winning State Championship TD. I've seen all I need to see. Don't mess with this kid. A passing Lance McIllhenny.
For those of you who have never seen the footage he's talking about:
