NCAA Releases Memphis Athletics APR

All 19 Tigers programs score above 930.

http://www.gotigersgo.com/genrel/062012aai.html

Memphis - Putting the "student" in student-athlete.

(06-20-2012 06:48 PM)TOGC Wrote:  Memphis - Putting the "student" in student-athlete.

Sounds like it's getting better since Calipari left.

Not too long ago, Tyreke Evans took correspondence courses. Never set foot in a campus classroom.

(06-20-2012 07:57 PM)CougarRed Wrote:  

(06-20-2012 06:48 PM)TOGC Wrote:  Memphis - Putting the "student" in student-athlete.

Sounds like it's getting better since Calipari left.

Not too long ago, Tyreke Evans took correspondence courses. Never set foot in a campus classroom.

I saw him on campus multiple times.

(06-20-2012 07:57 PM)CougarRed Wrote:  

(06-20-2012 06:48 PM)TOGC Wrote:  Memphis - Putting the "student" in student-athlete.

Sounds like it's getting better since Calipari left.

Not too long ago, Tyreke Evans took correspondence courses. Never set foot in a campus classroom.

Evans went to class. That is simply untrue.

(06-20-2012 07:57 PM)CougarRed Wrote:  

(06-20-2012 06:48 PM)TOGC Wrote:  Memphis - Putting the "student" in student-athlete.

Sounds like it's getting better since Calipari left.

Not too long ago, Tyreke Evans took correspondence courses. Never set foot in a campus classroom.

Completely ridiculous.

(06-20-2012 07:57 PM)CougarRed Wrote:  

(06-20-2012 06:48 PM)TOGC Wrote:  Memphis - Putting the "student" in student-athlete.

Sounds like it's getting better since Calipari left.

Not too long ago, Tyreke Evans took correspondence courses. Never set foot in a campus classroom.

^ total BS...

if i remember right Cal even got Penny Hardaway and Keith Lee to come back and finish...

Maybe I had bad info.

I have a friend in the inner circle at UT. It came down to Texas and Memphis for the kid.

Evans showed up for his visit at Texas with his guardian who was his brother/uncle as I recall.

Rick Barnes told Evans they were fine with him playing 1 year. They would design the offense for him. But the one thing they asked was that he go to class while he was in Austin.

Evans and the guardian told Barnes that Calipari promised all that at Memphis too, AND said the kid could take correspondence courses while he played. That he would never have to set foot on campus if he didn't want to.

Barnes would not agree to those conditions, and so the kid chose Memphis.

Now - is that sour grapes on UT's part? Maybe. But with the Derrick Rose irregularities and Cal's image, it sounded like a reasonable story to me.

(06-21-2012 01:00 AM)CougarRed Wrote:  Maybe I had bad info.

I have a friend in the inner circle at UT. It came down to Texas and Memphis for the kid.

Evans showed up for his visit at Texas with his guardian who was his brother/uncle as I recall.

Rick Barnes told Evans they were fine with him playing 1 year. They would design the offense for him. But the one thing they asked was that he go to class while he was in Austin.

Evans and the guardian told Barnes that Calipari promised all that at Memphis too, AND said the kid could take correspondence courses while he played. That he would never have to set foot on campus if he didn't want to.

Barnes would not agree to those conditions, and so the kid chose Memphis.

Now - is that sour grapes on UT's part? Maybe. But with the Derrick Rose irregularities and Cal's image, it sounded like a reasonable story to me.

Most colleges today offer online classes or correspondence courses where students only have to show up in a classroom a few times a semester.

Memphis, like many other Univ today, offers a slew of online courses and even undergraduate and graduate degree programs through its eCampus class line:
http://www.memphis.edu/ecampus/degree_prog.php

More and more Univ are able to increase their enrollment (i.e. collect tuition fees) with online classes without having the need to build new parking garages or new classroom buildings like they would have had to do in the past....and thats smart business.

Fantastic Job Memphis !

(06-21-2012 10:03 AM)CardFan1 Wrote:  Fantastic Job Memphis !

That is impressive.

(06-21-2012 01:00 AM)CougarRed Wrote:  Maybe I had bad info.

I have a friend in the inner circle at UT. It came down to Texas and Memphis for the kid.

Evans showed up for his visit at Texas with his guardian who was his brother/uncle as I recall.

Rick Barnes told Evans they were fine with him playing 1 year. They would design the offense for him. But the one thing they asked was that he go to class while he was in Austin.

Evans and the guardian told Barnes that Calipari promised all that at Memphis too, AND said the kid could take correspondence courses while he played. That he would never have to set foot on campus if he didn't want to.

Barnes would not agree to those conditions, and so the kid chose Memphis.

Now - is that sour grapes on UT's part? Maybe. But with the Derrick Rose irregularities and Cal's image, it sounded like a reasonable story to me.

It was actually down to Memphis and Villanova for Tyreke. People make up stories.

(06-21-2012 10:11 AM)mairving Wrote:  

(06-21-2012 01:00 AM)CougarRed Wrote:  Maybe I had bad info.

I have a friend in the inner circle at UT. It came down to Texas and Memphis for the kid.

Evans showed up for his visit at Texas with his guardian who was his brother/uncle as I recall.

Rick Barnes told Evans they were fine with him playing 1 year. They would design the offense for him. But the one thing they asked was that he go to class while he was in Austin.

Evans and the guardian told Barnes that Calipari promised all that at Memphis too, AND said the kid could take correspondence courses while he played. That he would never have to set foot on campus if he didn't want to.

Barnes would not agree to those conditions, and so the kid chose Memphis.

Now - is that sour grapes on UT's part? Maybe. But with the Derrick Rose irregularities and Cal's image, it sounded like a reasonable story to me.

It was actually down to Memphis and Villanova for Tyreke. People make up stories.

yup, it was between Memphis and 'Nova. Nova REALLY thought they had him sowed up (even when Memphis fans were telling them he had already chosen to sign with us)

Hate Cal all you want, but his kids that don't go pro early do graduate. Check his apr at both Memphis and UK.

Haha, Reke was down to Memphis and Texas? In what universe?

Cal is a scumbag but his track record in the APR department is not shabby.

I had a class with Tyreke. He was there some of the time at least.