Michigan WR Mario Manningham (official thread)

[Dryden]

Originally Posted by BuckeyeNation27

how do these kids get such low freaking scores on this thing. I've seen the example tests they have online. you have to have a mental problem to score so badly. how do you handle school work and football if you're this stupid?

My understanding is reading comprehension and reading speed, or skipping the essays.

One of the guys (former player-turned-analyst) on ESPN mentioned that the Wonderlic was really slanted against guys with even mild reading disabilities. The Wonderlic is broken up into 25 paragraph form essay problems, and 25 math problems. Even the most intelligent college grads can wind up spending too much time on the front half of the Wonderlic, so if you add any reading disablilities, you're pretty much [censored]ed.

The key, so I've heard, to the 25+ Wonderlic score is to completely skip the essays, go straight to the back and tear through the 25 math problems, then go back and knock out 4 or 5 of the longer questions with whatever time you have left.

[BuckeyeNation27]

That's just common sense then. His agent couldn't have told him that?

[ShakerBuck]

Originally Posted by Dryden

My understanding is reading comprehension and reading speed, or skipping the essays.

One of the guys (former player-turned-analyst) on ESPN mentioned that the Wonderlic was really slanted against guys with even mild reading disabilities. The Wonderlic is broken up into 25 paragraph form essay problems, and 25 math problems. Even the most intelligent college grads can wind up spending too much time on the front half of the Wonderlic, so if you add any reading disablilities, you're pretty much [censored]ed.

The key, so I've heard, to the 25+ Wonderlic score is to completely skip the essays, go straight to the back and tear through the 25 math problems, then go back and knock out 4 or 5 of the longer questions with whatever time you have left.

If you know "the key to success" on the wonderlic, don't you think any athlete taking the test would know as well? particularly if they have an agent or somebody who is coaching them through the combine/wonderlic/interviews etc...

[Dryden]

Thats my thought too. I don't know why guys like Manningham or Vince Young are getting 6s on the Wonderlic. Maybe they were stoned when they were advised by their coaches to skip to the back of the test book, or maybe they skipped their team meeting for combine prep. Hell, maybe they're so bright they just figured they didn't need to be given any advice on how to approach the Wonderlic. I have no idea.

Really, anything below an 8 is comparable to being illiterate, so you figure anyone that can pass admissions to a major U is going to be able to manage at least a 10-15, presumably without much effort.

Just stating that, and I'm thinking it was probably Marcellus Wiley, a Columbia grad who scored a 40+ on the Wonderlic, who mentioned that the key was to skip all the essays and do all the math first.

His statement was that you could take two people of comparable intelligence, and if one of them "prepared" for the Wonderlic and the other didn't, they might score 25 points higher.

Maybe some of these low scores are from guys who are just really bad at math or write long winded essay answers and get stuck on the very first one. Just pointing out that the Wonderlic is a very brief, quickly timed test that probably isn't as fair an assessment of intelligence as any of a dozen other types of tests that are out there.

[mooktarr]

we now know why he keeps forgetting to catch the ball.

[osugrad21]

6.

...but the academic standards up north are MUCH more stringent than at lowly Ohio State.

[JohnnyCockfight]

Literacy:

Charlie Wonderlic Jr., president of Wonderlic Inc., says, "A score of 10 is literacy, that's about all we can say."

[MililaniBuckeye]

Good thing he went to the Harvard of the Midwest lest he not even spelled his name right on the test.

Any decent college will teach you test-taking tips. Hell, even in the Air Force prior to every one of our annual competitive promotion tests we were given a quick pre-test briefing which included being told not to spend too much time on any question and go through the test and do all the "easy" questions and then go back and do the ones you skipped to avoid getting hung up and possibly not finishing the test in the allotted time.

[FrancisSawyer]

I don't know if this has been posted but watch Manningham come into the picture from the left.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDfqxk_3BHU"> Doin' the Worm </a>

[3074326]

Originally Posted by FrancisSawyer

I don't know if this has been posted but watch Manningham come into the picture from the left.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDfqxk_3BHU"> Doin' the Worm </a>

[Dryden]

I guess another scenario is that every time Chad Henne passed a No. 2 pencil to Manningham, Manningham dropped it.

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Mario just got selected in the third round by the N.Y. Giants.....

[OHSportsFan9]

Originally Posted by BuckeyeNation27

That's just common sense then. His agent couldn't have told him that?

He didn't have an agent when he was at the combine.

[BUCKYLE]

Mortensen was just saying that when the NFL scouts asked MM about him failing a drug test at UM, he lied and told them he hadn't.

[jwinslow]

Originally Posted by BUCKYLE

Mortensen was just saying that when the NFL scouts asked MM about him failing a drug test at UM, he lied and told them he hadn't.

Lincoln shot.