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What if athletes started really caring about their educations???


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34 minutes ago, DoctorB said:

http://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/2016/9/16/12941574/harvard-wendell-carter-recruiting-duke-basketball

if might be (sort of ) good news for a team like the Billikens, if this move were trending ...

Except SLU is still not a top school in academic rankings either. Unless someone has a long term passion for health care law...

13 minutes ago, 3star_recruit said:

A one and doner choosing Harvard over Duke would be an unusual story. Not sure how it proves he cares more about his education. How much academic progress can you make in 2 semesters taking a bunch of prereqs?

But he could still work on his Harvard degree with some of his millions from the NBA. 

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40 minutes ago, JMM28 said:

Except SLU is still not a top school in academic rankings either. Unless someone has a long term passion for health care law...

But he could still work on his Harvard degree with some of his millions from the NBA. 

The last statistics I saw from the NCAA and the Men's basketball team had a graduation rate of 65 percent.

not exactly anything to write home about.

 

 

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Doesn't this ultimately boil down to how big of a facade college athletics is and essentially why minor league basketball and football has no business being tied to Universities (at least academically)? Like we are to believe that these premiere basketball and football players who meet the minimum qualifications to play collegiate sports could survive academically at the finest academic institutions in the country (in addition to playing a sport and the time commitments involved).

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44 minutes ago, TheChosenOne said:

Doesn't this ultimately boil down to how big of a facade college athletics is and essentially why minor league basketball and football has no business being tied to Universities (at least academically)? Like we are to believe that these premiere basketball and football players who meet the minimum qualifications to play collegiate sports could survive academically at the finest academic institutions in the country (in addition to playing a sport and the time commitments involved).

Regarding this point, yeah, it's kind of a shame we've tied sports to our academic institutions so inextricably. I'm not sure there's an easy solution, but clearly the NCAA is running a sham system that needs to be reformed.

Regarding the OP, I reject the premise for a few reasons. As has been pointed out already, Duke is ranked just barely behind Harvard. You can point out that basketball players at Duke aren't held to the same standards as normal students and I'd mostly agree, but given the strength of the institution academically, there's nothing keeping any student from "really taking academics seriously". That also applies to SLU or any other school; you're going to get out of college what you put into it. Plus, why would this benefit SLU? A lot of the schools we compete against for recruits are ranked ahead of us.

This article is just one player's interesting story; no need to make it a bogus trend piece.

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