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Cal is trying to kill its football program - new GPA standard

Buffnik

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In the wake of the APR failure that embarrassed the Cal academic community, they have overreacted and put in place new policies that will pretty much make it impossible to recruit a lot of the players they've recently been admitting. By "recent", I pretty much mean from Tedford on when they decided to have a good football team. Anyway, this feels eerily similar to the moves that CU made in the 2003-2006 period that buried the football program.

"Most Cal athletes going forward will be required to have a 3.0 grade-point average in high school. That’s substantially lower than the general student body at Cal, but it’s higher than any Pac-12 school except Stanford. The new standards begin to go into effect this fall, when 40 percent of the incoming athletes must have a 3.0 GPA or better. That number climbs to 60 percent next year and to 80 percent in 2017."

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/sp...s-could-be-hurt-by-increased-gpa-requirements

h/t to rward on the Rivals board for finding this story.


 
good.

one less conference team to worry about as we try to ascend again. we need a couple more teams to fall in the ditch or self-implode-- it will help recruiting.
 
Liver said:
good.

one less conference team to worry about as we try to ascend again. we need a couple more teams to fall in the ditch or self-implode-- it will help recruiting.
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Oh ****! Phil better not get any benchmarking ideas.
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They're trying to be the Stanford of the East Bay, generally North of Oakland.
 
Buffnik said:
"Most Cal athletes going forward will be required to have a 3.0 grade-point average in high school. That’s substantially lower than the general student body at Cal, but it’s higher than any Pac-12 school except Stanford.
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Looks like Webster won't have to update its entry for Safety School.
 
So, does this effect their basketball class?

Have to say, I feel for their fans. Been there. Done that. Don't want to do it again. And this is why I think the NCAA APR rule just totally sucks. Schools with more stringent academic programs and who don't offer gravy train classes get screwed by it.
 
Didn't Cal just spend a ton of money on facilities? It seems like they have the academics versus athletics garbage that crept into Boulder in the eighties. I wish someone could remind these people of the demographics of the kids they are scholarshiping with these exceptions. It seems like a program that would be deemed noble.
 
Definitely not as bad as some are saying since they are a premier institution but will definitely hurt a little. I always hated the GPA thing considering a lot of kids don't care about grades in high school but test out a lot better than others. GPA's can also be inflated/deflated depending on a kids choices so it is kind of dumb.
 
pcbuff said:
Didn't Cal just spend a ton of money on facilities? It seems like they have the academics versus athletics garbage that crept into Boulder in the eighties. I wish someone could remind these people of the demographics of the kids they are scholarshiping with these exceptions. It seems like a program that would be deemed noble.
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You missed this. Cal athletics is going to be shaken to the core.
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So are they going to make it next to impossible to transfer JUCO credits, underfund the AD, publicly prosecute in the media, create student panels with authority to deny playing seasons, the self-defeating list goes on........... its not just the cannabis connection that makes CAL so easy to identify with sometimes
 
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