Why don’t you go up to Columbus and kiss Urban’s ass!!!! This is what your up against
Just as Terrelle Pryor was an Academic All Big Ten. This is why Joe was against NCAA-mandated graduation rates.To put it into a bit of perspective.... OSU had 284 (to PSU’s 166) this spring.
I doubt if that means OSU is nearly twice as “academic” as PSU.. What DOES it mean? Who knows, but not much.
It is what it is.
Certainly, there are plenty of “scholar athletes” at every BigTen University - no doubt .... but these “Academic All Conference” lists have - in many respects - been degraded to taking on the meaning of participation trophies...... and probably do a disservice to truly outstanding “scholar athletes”
But every AD and ICA dept just loves to be able to jabber about all of their “scholars”.
As impressive as those numbers sound, they have become - in the Big Ten anyway - for the most part, simply a matter of “how many sports do you have”.
And a rather silly “brag wall banner”.
(FWIW, in relative terms, PSU has been falling further down the ladder vav it’s BigTen brethren - - - but so long as they can claim “we have more than we did before”, it obscures the truth from most fans and backers. C’est La Vie)
Despite all of the “records” claimed by PSU, not only are they far below many of their colleagues, but - in the case of OSU - Penn State ..... despite “setting records” LMAO ...... has more “all academics” than OSU (as just one example) in just 2 of the 20 counted sports.
Sumptin’ don’t add up there Charlie Brown
The full list was published in May. For those who may want to see which PSUers made the lists, it is here:
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools...-18/misc_non_event/SpAcademicAll-BigTen18.pdf
That’s correct. Robinson was higher ranked than Barkley through most of the recruiting process until Barkley opened some eyes with his athleticism at the Opening and during his senior year. Robinson was putting up big numbers as a freshman and sophomore when Barkley was playing JV, so it made sense at the time to have him ranked higher than Barkley.
Would be a shame, cause he's talented! Thanks for your response.
Believe Adams was recruited as a RB (or maybe an athlete) until Robinson and Barkley committed to PSU. We still left the door open for him at LB after that, but it was funny seeing all those ND fanboys on twitter trying to argue Adams > Barkley.
He declared early and signed as
True but it didn’t have anything to do with ability or lack of success. He had a very good year last year but then again I could have put up decent numbers behind ND’s OL. He declared early for this year’s draft and was picked up by the Eagles as an undrafted free agent while 2 ND OL went in the 1st round. That tells you all you really need to know
Josh. His name is in the post. And yeah we know he’s done with college. It’s all in the posts above.
And once again, thread view wins.
And once again, thread view wins.
