They dropped Randy Moss because he got into a big fight in high school, so they recommended him to bowden@FSU THEN he got kicked off the team for smoking weed then went to Marshall. Moss's grades had no part in notre dame dropping him. ND has always made acceptions for players with lower grades, but if they dont like a player they use grades as a reason why he didn't come to notre dame. As far as Tulane they have a speciall university for some athletes who need extra help in passing college courses.
That's the amazing thing. Stanford, with similar academic standards, can only win one game. The Ivy league schools dropped out of Division One rather than compromise on their standards. ND is the only school left that aspires to win a NC while stil remaining steadfast in its educational responsiblity to its student-atheletes. Who knows if a school can still retain its integrity, while striving for a NC? But, if ND can't, then its a sad day for college football as the purity of the game has vanished into the ether. Every ND student-athelete must earn his education; there are no basket weaving majors for players to hide in. ND football players must work just as hard, if not harder, as the rest of the ND student population. And, ND student-athletes graduation rate is 96%. What is LSU's? The fact is that it is difficult to compete with such standards. It pretty much eliminates maybe half of the top 100 players, where ND can't even recruit those athletes. It limits the talent pool of recruits. Griffin, Wilson, and Johnson were all players who could not have been recruited because of ND's academic standards.
Dunbar was a skanky ho, who was unaffiliated with the University except she paid $25 to join a booster club. We're talking about $25, and that's the worst thing you can find about ND. Nor, did you mention what happened to the players when this came to light. I too can use google, and find LSU's academic scandals, where LSU lost scholarships. Only a few years ago, LSU implemented changes because it had gotten out of control. Tutors were highlighting books so players wouldn't have to read the entire book.
It is indeed difficult to compete with such standards, but Notre Dame has the advantage of pro Irish bias in the media and the BCS which helps keep them in the national spotlight, when, in reality, your school is no more worthy of inflated rankings, unshared network money and special BCS considerations that any other Div. I team. Moan and groan all you want, but ND has been the golden boy to everyone else's red headed stepchild for years and you aren't going to engender any sympathy around here. I laugh at your anguish.
Nuff said. Boy this would've been a much funner thread for me had the score been the opposite, or at least closer. Maybe in a few years...
Well Stanford is a basketball school and they have had great success. Dont know what you are getting at. :hihi:
