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Cal raises admissions standards for football

Buffnik

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"Cal?"

"Speaking"

"This is CU circa 2004. We'd like to advise you on how to run a football program."

"You have our full attention."

"The only way to get past an embarrassing report on your football program is to dramatically shrink the admissions window."

"Brilliant! We're on it! Thank you for showing us the light!"

http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_24676593/berkeley-bears-football-team-improving-classroom

Eighty percent of this year's new recruits met UC's statewide admission requirements compared with 39 percent in 2011, suggesting a major shift as pressure grew for the prestigious university to require that its football players' brains match their brawn.

"We realized we had a potential problem ... and so we upped the floor," said Richard Rhodes, a linguistics professor who heads the Berkeley Academic Senate's admissions and enrollment committee.

The recruiting overhaul came even though athletic director Sandy Barbour has denied that low admission standards for football players had dragged Cal's official NCAA graduation rate to 44 percent -- the worst in the country.

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It's the stand in the bottom of a hole and see if we can throw any more dirt over the edges style of running an athletic program.

I'm glad that CU is no longer the cellar dweller of the PAC but I'd had to see Cal go down the same road to destroying any hope of winning.
 
Giving a linguistics professor the keys to your largest money maker. Good luck with that.

Perhaps Vintage CU could give them crisis management lessons. Or maybe teach them about televised exit interviews.
 
J.R. Ewing said:
Giving a linguistics professor the keys to your largest money maker. Good luck with that.

Perhaps Vintage CU could give them crisis management lessons. Or maybe teach them about televised exit interviews.
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Slow down, Turbo - Philly D is still resident in the decision making chain.
 
Interesting that they are coming off their highest rated classes ever and playing so bad. Wait until these things hit in about 2-3 years....
 
Cal's recruiting per rivals:

2009 #42
2010 #11
2011 #17
2012 #23

Now they are stiffening the admissions...

That whole "Tosh Effect" that boosted their recruiting somehow didn't raise their talent level. By any measure.
 
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absinthe said:
The new floor is comparable to what UCLA has always used and is still far lower than 'Furd's
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Yeah, that's what I was going to point out. It'll be tougher but not impossible. But Dykes has gotta be pissed. "Um, maybe you might have brought this up when you were offering me the job?"
 
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Is there a chart comparing the school standards in the Pac?

Would be interesting to compare performance versus standards? I think it might be counter intuitive when you look at the historic performance of USC and underperformance of the Arizona Schools?
 
Buffnik said:
"Cal?"

"Speaking"

"This is CU circa 2004. We'd like to advise you on how to run a football program."

"You have our full attention."

"The only way to get past an embarrassing report on your football program is to dramatically shrink the admissions window."

"Brilliant! We're on it! Thank you for showing us the light!"

http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_24676593/berkeley-bears-football-team-improving-classroom

Eighty percent of this year's new recruits met UC's statewide admission requirements compared with 39 percent in 2011, suggesting a major shift as pressure grew for the prestigious university to require that its football players' brains match their brawn.

"We realized we had a potential problem ... and so we upped the floor," said Richard Rhodes, a linguistics professor who heads the Berkeley Academic Senate's admissions and enrollment committee.

The recruiting overhaul came even though athletic director Sandy Barbour has denied that low admission standards for football players had dragged Cal's official NCAA graduation rate to 44 percent -- the worst in the country.
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I always thought that low graduation rates for football players were typically the sign of a good school. No joke.

When you see high graduation rates, typically, you see mainly worthless majors and extremely low standards. Cal should be proud of their low grad rates. "We get you in, but you have to do the work if you want the diploma." Just like everybody else, by the way.
 
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