Tonka Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 Wow, that is sad! I guess some people never know how they have it and will eventually learn their lesson. Or, maybe not! Not as long as institutions like Mizzou say, "it's okay". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUFAN2000 Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 I would say just about every public institution in america accepts correspondence courses for credit. It's no different than accepting AP courses for college credit, so why should you look down upon mizzou? I'm not sure, but I would not at all be surprised if SLU accepted correspondence credits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUFAN2000 Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 If your meaning of the word "friend" does not include "fun," then by all means, have as many friends as you want. Steve and I (and my other friend) all had fun with what went on yesterday, and if you can't get past it, well then- i'm sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p diddy Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 word on the street was that dwayne's mother had control over her son's recruiting. she even took charge over dwayne Sr. that's almost unheard of at vashon and that ruffled floyd's feathers quite a bit. bad boyz for life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUFAN2000 Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 Does that mean that SLU WOULDN'T accept the hours? It's all speculation on all of our part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjray Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 Then our thanks to Mrs. Polk! He was first to commit and who can tell to what extent that influenced Meyer and, later, Liddell. This is a great class ... now if santa can just find us a PF for the 2004 class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aj_arete Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 I don't know why no one else can see that point. Correspondence courses are prevalent at almost every university. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUFAN2000 Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 I think you're taking an unfair potshot at Mizzou right there. Just because you don't hear about the many scholar athletes at mizzou who do manage to keep up their grades, and perform athletically at a high level, doesn't mean that they don't exist. Sure, Clemons and Pulley are blemishes on the program, as they would be on any program- but how many other situations like this can you mention? AJ and Rickey Paulding certainly aren't failing their classes. Brad Smith, AJ Ricker, and Rob Droege don't seem to be having many problems. Mizzou is not well known for any sort of academic fraud, and pending the finalization of this NCAA investigation, it doesn't seem as though we will be known for any sort of academic fraud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aj_arete Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 wouldn't except a person who had a JUCO degree, that included correspondence courses, provided that they had the prerequisite GPA. I'm sorry, but you have no proof that SLU has not admitted ONE student who took a correspondence course. I find that highly improbable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonka Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 I can find out for you for sure. I will post on Monday how SLU regards this and handles this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUFAN2000 Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 That would be very informative and helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted December 6, 2003 Author Share Posted December 6, 2003 it would be interesting to find out if slu would accept a marginal scored gpa and act test applicant from a juco that earned half of their credits via correspondence courses. now if we are talking about an existing slu student in good standings taking a single course over the summer via some sort of home study/correspondence course, that might happen depending on the class, but i would be shocked to hear that the borderline juco student could get in as described above. let's not forget slu wouldnt even accept brandon morris who met ncaa guidelines without the benefit of correspondence courses this past summer. why would you think they would take a clemons like applicant? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonka Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 Well, I am curious myself now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted December 6, 2003 Author Share Posted December 6, 2003 like i said, if we are talking about 1 or 2 fill in classes over a 4-5 year college career for an existing student in good standings, i would agree on some classes. an elective for example. but when you are talking about half of a students transferable transcript being earned in 6 weeks, i am shocked you are even trying to throw defenses out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted December 6, 2003 Author Share Posted December 6, 2003 again, a big difference between one course and half of one's transcript which was earned in a 6 week period from 3 separate institutions. come on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonka Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 I have to admit, my friends would do the same thing and perhaps worse. They would have approached it differently, but nevertheless, wouldn't hesitate to screw with me. You have to understand, that posting is one-dimensional. I have run into problems before because things are taken the wrong way. There is no body language, there is no voice inflection, there is no history, etc. That being said, I can see it the other way as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUFAN2000 Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 I never said they would accept clemons. You were just looking down on Mizzou. You called it a "correspondence school" because they accept correspondence courses. Correspondence courses aren't bad by any stretch of the imagination. a friend of steve and mine took some correspondence courses in High school, and now he's a freshman at Wash. U. I'm not certain if they accepted his credits, but it certainly wouldn't surprise me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonka Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 half of his transcript came this way? I would have to agree with you on this. It is very suspect that this went on and any justification or rationalizing of it is no more than emotions defending their team and their school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUFAN2000 Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 Wow, you really are out of touch if you think correspondence courses are that uncommon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted December 6, 2003 Author Share Posted December 6, 2003 friends would never go out of their way to embarrass another over the internet on the pride and joy of the other's work and life. you will quickly learn here that one thing unofficially not tolerated here by the membership is going after steve. a good natured poke occasionally is one thing. an all day display like you pulled yesterday was a little excessive imo. as usual the board rose up and defended steve as we should. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted December 6, 2003 Author Share Posted December 6, 2003 24 credits were in question. if you figure 12 credits a semester x 4 = 48 total credits for two years worth of credits to transfer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUFAN2000 Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 If you think we in anyway embarassed steve, then you obviously haven't seen steve in some of the situations I have. It was all in good fun, and if I were a billikens fan you would have forgotten about it when steve said to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUFAN2000 Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 12 of the credits were correspondence courses. 9 hours at BYU, and 3 at adams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted December 6, 2003 Author Share Posted December 6, 2003 but there was also the barton county last minute credits as well that were earned at the same time as the others. thus the total questionable credits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUFAN2000 Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 But barton cc credits weren't correspondence credits. If that's not what we're discussing, please correct me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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