I find it dubious any of you ACTUALLY WOULD care about academics. I thought we were supposed to answer this from the POV a top recruit/pro prospect. Those guys DGAF about being a "student".

(05-18-2021 06:59 PM)Erictelevision Wrote:  I find it dubious any of you ACTUALLY WOULD care about academics. I thought we were supposed to answer this from the POV a top recruit/pro prospect. Those guys DGAF about being a "student".

The OP just said "recruit", so I did not take it to mean just top recruits/pro prospects.

I agree, if someone is a 4* or 5* recruit with NFL projection, academics won't matter at all to him.

(05-18-2021 06:39 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(05-18-2021 05:27 PM)XLance Wrote:  A good medical school with an outstanding orthopedic department.

What about the neuroscience department?!

That too!

(05-18-2021 06:46 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  

(05-18-2021 06:38 PM)bullet Wrote:  ]
Darrell K. Royal once said that if playing time was a top priority, that wasn't a player he wanted. He wanted players who expected to compete for and win playing time.

That’s great for Darrell Royal - he loses nothing when players don’t play.

That sucks for players - they lose a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity they’ll never get back.

I mean there's probably benchwarmers from his championship teams that regret not playing during college, but they can say they played for DKR and were a small but vital part of what made those teams great even without getting on the field. All while getting to earn a degree from UT and live in Austin.

(05-18-2021 06:59 PM)Erictelevision Wrote:  I find it dubious any of you ACTUALLY WOULD care about academics. I thought we were supposed to answer this from the POV a top recruit/pro prospect. Those guys DGAF about being a "student".

I didn't specify if you were a top prospect, I just said a recruit. But even highly rated recruits all-in on the NFL might see a program like Northwestern or Stanford that can set you up for life much more than a standard public school if you don't make pro, so long as you can get accepted. Might not be the number one driver for everyone, but if recruits didn't care then anyone with any talent wouldn't go to an academic elite where you can't coast on blowoff classes.

Love: you actually think the type of player we're talking about is self aware enough to take his education seriously? He didn't get to be a D-1 quality athlete in a revenue sport by taking school seriously.

(05-18-2021 06:59 PM)Erictelevision Wrote:  I find it dubious any of you ACTUALLY WOULD care about academics. I thought we were supposed to answer this from the POV a top recruit/pro prospect. Those guys DGAF about being a "student".

This, would seem to be a bit of Monday morning quarterbacking going on with it. At 17/18 years old more guys are interested in going someplace where they will be surrounded by their friends and beautiful girls then they are picking a school because it has a top 10 ranked computer science program.

clpp: the people you're talking about haven't been coddled all their lives, and they understand the world doesn't revolve around them. They understand they have to actually make it on their merits.

Location (proximity to home), academics, culture, coach stability, coaching style, and playing time. Program prestige isn't necessarily a factor to me.

Location (proximity to home): I don't want to go very far. Of course, El Paso is much farther from Houston than, say, Mobile so going out of state isn't a big deal. Still, being less than an eight-hour drive from home is definitely a good thing. So schools like UTEP would be out even though they're in-state. (Though family in other states would help change that.)

Academics: Are you just a diploma mill or does your name on the top of the degree I'm getting mean something? (So schools like Lamar, while not bad, are out because my uncle Darrell got his degree from there, and he's a jerk.)

Culture: Would you be treated like family or would you just be another person?

Coach stability: self-explanatory.

Coaching style: Do I fit in with the gameplan? Also, would I have a chance to improve as a player if my ultimate goal is to go pro?

Playing time: Will I eventually see the field/court during my time with the program?

Though to be completely fair, Location and Academics would have equal importance to me.