Fair point. My main argument is more about the detriment to the student.

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Apr 19, 2019
12:21:33pm

Throwaway59840 Redshirt Freshman

Fair point. My main argument is more about the detriment to the student.

Unprepared students are far more likely to drop out. Dropping out of grad school doesn't look good on a resume.

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Slow clap for Coach Shaw at Stanford:

4/19/19 8:18am

Answer is very clear

Heinz57

4/19/19 8:20am

and had a full-time job, football, while getting a degree.......................

BDAWG

4/19/19 8:22am

Also extremely hypocritical of any coach that thinks otherwise.

kotacoug

4/19/19 8:24am

The full article outlines that Stanford regularly has fewer

Everyman

4/19/19 9:10am

Large part? They have had 1 grad transfer in the last 5 years get in Stanford

4/19/19 6:49pm

Well...except that you also need to have good grades and test scores. That's

4/19/19 9:21am

I’d sure liked to have gotten into medical school but didn’t quite have the

Bullrider

4/19/19 10:08am

Which is crazy. Athletes shouldn't get special treatment for admittance to

4/19/19 10:13am

Actually, you're wrong. Athletes represent the University publicly and on a

UberDeek

4/19/19 11:53am

Do you want a doctor who got into medical school because he played RB at Ohio

4/19/19 11:54am

My dad's dermatologist was selected solely based on the fact that his PA was

UberDeek

4/19/19 11:57am

Never said I wouldn't go to a doctor that was an athlete. I wouldn't want to go

4/19/19 12:00pm

Then you'd never go to a doctor who's dad was a doctor.

UberDeek

4/19/19 12:09pm

If they got in under spurious circumstances? No, I wouldn't want to go to them.

4/19/19 12:12pm

We have a system that trains them to be qualified

D.T. Survivor

4/19/19 12:16pm

Fair point. My main argument is more about the detriment to the student.

4/19/19 12:21pm

Playing football opens up a lot of opportunities

D.T. Survivor

4/19/19 3:56pm

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wilsdad

4/19/19 4:37pm

So you saying that the amount of effort and smarts that are required to get a

unctoothman

4/19/19 11:30am

I don't think your typical SEC athlete is getting the highest quality education.

4/19/19 11:35am

Newsflash: if a college athlete is transferring somewhere else to play after

unctoothman

4/19/19 11:39am

Cool. If he's 1 then he'll get in, no problem. If he's 2, then we shouldn't let

4/19/19 11:44am

Taken out of context.

CougarThug

4/19/19 12:00pm

It won't pass..

TheLost

4/19/19 12:25pm

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