Tag Archive | "academics"
Fowler, Sendek, Amato and the GSR (Updated @ 1:15pm)
NC State is currently tied for the worst record in the Atlantic Coast Conference football season as the program heads towards its longest consecutive streak of non-winning seasons since the 1950s. The Wolfpack has been picked to finish 12th out of 12 teams from almost every imaginable source for the upcoming basketball season continuing [...]
Continue reading...Lorenzo Brown – Another One Bites the Dust
Sunday, July 12, 2009
I apologize for not being more timely – I’ve been on vacation and out of the loop. But yes, what you may have heard is indeed true – Lorenzo Brown is headed to prep school and will not suit up for the 2009-10 Wolfpack squad. No matter how down the ACC may be, [...]
Continue reading...College Basketball Notes
Thursday, May 28, 2009
ESPN has two pieces of note this morning. First, the NCAA alleges that Derrick Rose might not have taken his own SAT (if one reads between the lines). It sounds like the only punishment being discussed is vacating Rose’s Final Four, but even that would suck for Memphis, a program whose best days [...]
Continue reading...How do they remain academically eligible?
Monday, March 23, 2009
Well…we can add the name of Hakeem Nicks to the ever-growing list of UNC-CH athletes who find academic matriculation at UNC-Chapel Hill significantly easier than daily tasks such as simultaneously thinking and breathing. Nicks will enter the powder blue’s ‘Pantheon of Paradox’ with a seat firmly entrenched between the likes of Kevin Madden, Rasheed Wallace, [...]
Continue reading...US News and World Report College Rankings Released
Friday, August 22, 2008
NC State is ranked #83. For the record, I think these rankings are incredibly biased against land grant universities, especially those that place heavy emphasis on science and engineering. That said, NC State is more than 10 slots behind #71 Virginia Tech, and more than 20 slots lower than #61 Clemson. I consider these schools very [...]
Continue reading...Sam Jones Update (Updated 11:30 am)
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Yesterday’s entry regarding Sam Jones sparked conversations along a few different fronts. SFN has confirmed that a significant portion of the Sam Jones rumor is true. Jones and his family were surprised to recently learn that Sam must still pass an Algebra II math class to gain admission to NC State. He will take the class [...]
Continue reading...N&O: Amato was right about Akron
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
I love this kind of stuff. I love looking back and reviewing issues with some hindsight and holding people accountable to their words. Tip of the hat to the N&O for their insightful use of yesterday’s APR announcement. Given the scholarship penalties handed out by the NCAA on Tuesday, Chuck Amato was a man ahead of [...]
Continue reading...NC State Only ACC School Penalized by APR
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Last week’s report where the NCAA honored 712 different teams throughout the country laid the groundwork for today’s broad release of the NCAA’s Academic Progress Report that effectively takes a scholarship away from NC State’s wrestling program. You can access NC State’s specific report by clicking here. * NC State is the ONLY school in the entire [...]
Continue reading...NCAA honors 712 teams, 192 schools (NC State not one of them)
Friday, April 25, 2008
No wonder Lee Fowler was so defensive last night as discussed in this entry, the news just keeps getting worse. The men’s teams at the two national powers(UNC & Kansas), which met in the Final Four earlier this month, were included among 712 Division I squads singled out by the NCAA for their solid academic performance. [...]
Continue reading...UNC System Admission Requirements
Sunday, June 18, 2006
The summer recruiting seasons for both football and basketball are in full swing. While I don’t follow the latest mutterings of 16/17 year old kids, there is one thing that I haven’t seen any mention of…how any of the kids are doing with respect to the “new” admission requirements of the UNC system. I found [...]
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
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