(02-14-2012 01:03 AM)trojanbrutha Wrote:  

(02-14-2012 12:42 AM)TodgeRodge Wrote:  

(02-14-2012 12:22 AM)trojanbrutha Wrote:  

(02-14-2012 12:00 AM)TodgeRodge Wrote:  

(02-13-2012 11:30 PM)MeanGreenFan123 Wrote:  Bingo

they are already in the passing lane and bumper to bumper with you academically while you have steam coming out from under the hood of the green Buick and are looking to move over into the break down lane...and it will only take a bowl win or two over the next decade for them to pass you by athletically

but hey that new "strategic plan and branding" that came out today should help right

Why is there always a thread about academics when it comes to athletics? No school in this, or any other conference, and I'd venture to guess that this goes for the Ivy League as well, has all 4.0 26-36 ACT scorin' players. As long as they make it through the clearing house and the coaches want them, whether it's my team our yours, they'll take him...

1. I believe it is because it is about COLLEGE athletics and athletics being used as a window to a UNIVERSITY

2. does anyone want to be in a conference filled with schools that load up on partial qualifiers and or use APR exemptions to sign academic morons....especially when that often gives that school an unfair advantage

3. the NCAA has already bumped up the APR requirements and might just keep doing it.....IMO it is a great way to weed out programs that really have no business in D1-A and should probably be spending more resources on academics.....if a school is in a conference that is filled with others not making their APR requirements that reflects badly on the conference and the other members and it can lead to a situation where a school that qualities for bowl games and NCAA tournaments does not get to participate in those.....that cost the conference money.....which cost the conference members money.....and if that school not making their APR requirements is out there taking bowl slots from other conference members by gaining a win over them with their non-student athletes and costing them a chance at a bowl.....that cost those members individually...if that school eventually drops down.....that leaves the conference in a bind.....if enough members eventually drop out.....that could leave you without a conference

4. conferences are paying more attention to academics and academic cooperation.....the best example is the Big 10 where they have a system in place to make cooperation on grant funding and other research very smooth, but others have similar things.....the Big 12 has a nuclear consortium that offers classes towards nuclear engineering and they will probably expand that in the future to include other research areas and I would imagine the PAC 12 and ACC will do similar things in the future when membership stabilizes

1) All that is "nice to know" stuff, but the question remains...why? If you want an aside about academics, start you an OT about academics.

2) The off-season always brings about the same, tired conversations that are pointed. After a while, decent threads have to be relegated to the smack board because some "einstein" derails it.

3) What team or teams are you referring to?

4) Not everyone aspires to be a "rocket scientist." Congrats to the pac12 and acc. They have the funding, aid, and alumni to make things like that happen, at present...SBC has to crawl before it can walk, walk before it can run...with the current membership, it's time to start walking so we can learn to run with everyone else.

Now, can we get back to the mindless drivel of an SBC/WAC alliance...?

Academics is important to a lot of conferences and CUSA was one of them considering 1/3 of their members were private institutions and several of the other remaining members were highly ranked national universities.

I can absolutely understand what you're saying and this particular guy is one of the biggest trolls around, but he's actually correct on a lot of what he's saying here.