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My favorites are the posts asking that Holbrook be fired. I believe some of these folks actually believe the University is secondary to the athletic program and have no idea that the research budget alone at OSU dwarfs the budget of the entire athletic department. I wouldn't expect Karen Holbrook to even be briefed about such a situation.
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The best post is the one saying "this could be a turning point in Ohio State football history. This will kill OOS recruiting" or something like that. Talk about melodramatic. Recruiting has and always will be filled with stuff.
Here is a touching story from our friends up north. Doesn't seem to have destroyed their program or OOS recruiting: http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-onlin...g_5315576.html |
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Some have "reported" that Channel 4 in Columbus ran a story that the High School sent the wrong transscripts to tOSU..... any one catch that? I'm nowhere near Ohio. If so... how trustworthy is the reporting from Ch. 4?
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EDIT: Based on the latest edition of the Palm Beach Post, I should continue to refrain from subscribing to conspiracy theories. It appears from this new article that Ohio State admissions has once again decided that Morgan should not be admitted to OSU based on the fact that he is not in the top 50% of his high school class. Something isn't right here - there is nothing in the formal written admissions criteria requiring a high school student to be in the top 50% of the high school class. Hopefully somebody at OSU will address this issue. Morgan's Admission Denied a Second Time OSU Admissions Criteria For Student Athletes Last edited by LightningRod; 02-01-2004 at 06:07 AM. |
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http://www.1460thefan.com/tf.php?sto...201-E3-01.html
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This is either irresponsible behavior by the staff or irresponsible journalism.
Just what is "a source close to the OSU program"? Folks are speculating all over the place on what caused this. It can't be that hard to find a current or former player who would 'speculate' the class is getting full as an explanation without evidence to back that up as a motive. Latest I read was that the wrong transcripts were processed by OSU. It is simply incomprehensible to me that Jim Tressel would sit down with his staff and say "This kid is solid academically but let's pretend he isn't and make up a story so we have room for Dennis Kennedy." I would have a hard time believing Phil Fullmer would do that let alone Jim Tressel. |
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If in fact the staff told Morgan that they did not have a scholorship for him and offered a grayshirt opportunity, and you consider that unethical, then the recruting of Todd Boeckman must have been unethical as well. As I recall, he was originally offered a scholorship with no strings and later offered to grayshirt.
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I am wondering about this Morgan situation. If he indeed has a 3.25 GPA, but is in the bottom 50% and has an SAT score of 810 or whatever is being bandied about, I would really question the school's grading systems.
If this stuff is part of the admission criteria, it is there for a reason. Of course, if his SAT is above 1000, then different story. Big deal here is the fact that they couldn't tell him this earlier. But this seems like the first year for this admissions board and it seems like there are some bugs to work out. That is the stuff I am concerned about more than the criteria. |
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I first read Morgan had a 3.25 GPA and and 18 on his act. Those two scores don't correlate to me. I would think that a 3.25 GPA would lead to a higher act. This whole fiasco will die out and folks will move on.
As far as "someone close to the team" quote: That is so vague I can imagine all kinds of scenarios. ![]() Last edited by ohiobuck94; 02-01-2004 at 12:11 PM. |
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The question I have is how in the hell is a 3.25 not in the top 50% of a class? Either this school is not allowing anyone to have under a 3.0 or it is a school for the gifted. Things just dont add up here IMHO. I would speculate further but I missed my luncheon with Coach JT this morning that alot of other bucknuts seemed to have caught. ![]() |
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Let me guess - the "someone close to the team" is the poster known as helpinghand. All I know is that in the name of journalism, Bucknuts has done more to bring ridicule to my alma mater, my wife's alma mater, and my son's soon to be alma mater than Coach Tressel could ever dream of doing with extensive planning.
DuJuan - I really do wish the best for this young man. I really do wish he had the requisites for admission. The Office of Admissions would not reject him twice in a matter of a few weeks unless there was a good reason. Just as I learned that Miles Williams did not meet OSU's basic admission requirements, so to I believe that DuJuan has not met OSU's basic admission requirements. It doesn't matter to me if he is good to go elsewhere - he is not good to go at OSU, and if he really wanted to attend OSU, he would have made certain that he would have made the mental moves for admission. There was a time when a 0.00 was good enough to be at OSU. Those days are over. There was a time when others made fun of OSU because it was crystal clear that OSU was in fact a football factory without regard to academic achievement - an attitude that if you want to go to class and maybe learn something, you can do that too. Now, people are screaming to fire the leaders of this great institution for having the gall to stand up and say this is an institution of learning first. I hope Dr. Holbrook continues to push her initiative of raising the academic stature of my alma mater to even greater hights. For those who are in it only for the football, there is always Alabama. Last edited by LightningRod; 02-02-2004 at 12:39 AM. |
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