(08-13-2012 01:37 PM)SF Husky Wrote:  I can't help this place is full of thin-skinned UL fans who is highly defensive of UL's academic reputation. It still does not change the fact he got rejected by UCONN for academics and he got into UL. End of the discussion.

Note that you got very thin skinned and defensive when I too pointed out a fact, that UConn will be watching other Big East teams play in the post season, while they sit at home, due to academics. So don't call them or me thin skinned when yourself, both on this very thread, on this very subject, and in the past, have shown, are EXTREMELY thin skinend when it comes to UConn. And you have been for years. I mean you still get pissed when someone brings up basketball revenues because Uconn isn't listed, and you blame it some accounting method, and blah, blah, blah, and start lecturing about how valuable UConn basketball is. That is just one example.

You calling someone else thin skinned about the team they root for is like Larry Brown lecturing someone about job loyalty.

(08-13-2012 01:14 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  

(08-13-2012 01:09 PM)uconnbaseball Wrote:  

(08-13-2012 12:56 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  Wait, if UConn is so far above the other schools in the Big East academically, can someone remind me why UConn won't be eligible to go to the NCAA tournament this year, while every other Big East school is?

Any reason why you are still pushing this issue when SF cooled down a while ago?

4 year APR score that UConn failed to meet. It is what it is. As I said, McNeal is a class kid and a good player and I wish him well.

See how many posts I had the subject above? I commented on it, because today is the first day I opened the thread, and it seemed an appropriate response to someone talking high Uconn’s academics while attempting to put down another schools. Doing so while the school he roots for has been trying and begging to get into the NCAA tournament this year that they are ineligible for due to academics is irony at its best. And since he responded as such, he really hasn't "cooled" on it anyway. Do the crime, do the time....

Fair enough, though I wouldn't paint an entire athletic department with a thin brush when the rest of our athletic programs are doing tremendously academically. SF is obviously back now.

Oh, and I am not clueless about either. Your academics are a representation of your faculty and students, as much as your finances and ability to research and the curriculum. If your students cannot maintain the proper grades, while everyone else's can, then it says something about the quality of the school, just as much as the admission standards do. If you think admission standards are more important than academic progress of students who have the most assistance available, and how that can reflect on the academics of a school, well then I don't know what to tell you.

I didn't ever say you were clueless, nor have I commented on the stature of Louisville as an institution. Are you talking to SF? As for admission requirements, I agree that student retention says at least as much about a school as admission requirements do. UConn is extremely selective about the kinds of people it accepts, and does a good job in general in retaining those people. I won't comment on anything else in your post except to say that only our men's basketball program has struggled to keep their kids in class. Our women's program has had 100% graduation rates in the past. UConn's drop-out rate was only 8% in 2004, though I'm not sure how much that number has changed in recent years


Oh and for the record both my undergrad school (Maryland) and grad school (Hopkins) are most certainly higher regarded as academic institutions than UConn, so you are certainly speaking to the wrong cat. I finished both with exceptional marks, while working full time (which puts me in the class of an athlete when it comes to time commitments, only without the assistance that athletes get to "assist" in academic progress with limited study time. OK

You stated a fact. I stated a fact. Your fact attempted to hit below the belt and hit the hip I guess not true- I never attended UofL so I don't care, but as UofL is an urban centered university, some of its grad school programs are easier to get into than others - while mine landed right on the chin. I don't even care about the situation, because every school has a few grad school programs that are easier to get into than others (I was a good undergrad student, but probably not Hopkins good, save for I was one of the first in their MBA program and it was a little more open than most of their programs), so anyone who gets upset about that has thin skin. But since you made the comment, I thought reciprocating was only fair.
Again, is this directed at SF? Only your first paragraph directly responded to my post.

UConn, I started answering SF's post in the second half of that post. Sorry that wasn't meant to be at you. My multipost button stopped workign when the site was reformatted and I guess it was in my retort. It's fixed now.

(08-13-2012 01:53 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  UConn, I started answering SF's post in the post. Sorry that wasn;t meant for you.

That's what I figured. No problem.

(08-13-2012 01:51 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  

(08-13-2012 01:37 PM)SF Husky Wrote:  I can't help this place is full of thin-skinned UL fans who is highly defensive of UL's academic reputation. It still does not change the fact he got rejected by UCONN for academics and he got into UL. End of the discussion.

Note that you got very thin skinned and defensive when I too pointed out a fact, that UConn will be watching other Big East teams play in the post season, while they sit at home, due to academics. So don't call them or me thin skinned when yourself, both on this very thread, on this very subject, and in the past, have shown, are EXTREMELY thin skinend when it comes to UConn. And you have been for years. I mean you still get pissed when someone brings up basketball revenues because Uconn isn't listed, and you blame it some accounting method, and blah, blah, blah, and start lecturing about how valuable UConn basketball is. That is just one example.

You calling someone else thin skinned about the team they root for is like Larry Brown lecturing someone about job loyalty.

Quite a difference between UCONN's basketball revenue vs. whatever report people keep quoting that made no sense. I was pointing facts vs. a report from a lazy reporter.

In this case, it is pretty black and white. He got rejected by one school while got into another for academic reasons. We love to have the kid but it was not meant to be. You can jump to whatever conclusion you like.

Those two are not the same situation.