BU Announces Academic Success

[BUfan14]

I gotta agree with Dallas here. Let's face it, 99.9% of BU players are playing pro-sports. I love the BU is focused on their academic success. If all you care about is an organization that's focused on winning basketball games, go watch the NBA. College is about way more than sports, and I hope these players don't lose sight of that. People can throw around degrees, call each other academic or not; but I'll tell you what, in 2 years, the fact Sam has kept a good GPA, will mean way more than whether or not he beat SIU at home this year.

I completely agree, and I really don't see how anyone who is thinking less about themselves and more about the kids going to school can say otherwise. This is the kids futures we are talking about. Basketball is great and I love winning, but these kids well-being comes way before my personal wants. I don't want to win if we are not running a class program that does it the right way in the class room and on the court, I could never root for a guy like Calipari because of that. Everyone loves winning, and I really want on the court success, but it should be a secondary goal behind academics and developing as people (the main goals of college).

 

[SFP]

I love our basketball program and I'm not saying that we recruit scholars and not worry about their skills. I'm not even saying that the Jocks have to be honor roll types. I want them to excel but what I was saying I'd rather have our school give a scholarship to a person with the possibility of achieving academic greatness (not a sports person) then a person who may or may not be a 1st team All American. A Nobel Prize is greater then an NCAA championship in my eyes. Having our athletic department achieve pretty good academic progress is fantastic and if we win any type of title that is icing on the cake.

Tell me guys, would you rather attend KY and win NCAA titles at any cost or attend a top notch school like Cal Tech or U of Chicago with zero sports and receive a diploma.

I'd take the top notch education any day. That is where BU when it is all said and done needs to keep their site on. With this Administration I have a feeling they are. I'm not saying we can't have both but being who BU is, it will be real tough. Others have no problem sacrificing their academic integrity and I hope we never ever come close.

 

[tornado]

We tried to get DeAaron Williams into this school ...

you should consider picking another example, because you are wrong and misinformed on this one...


DeAaron Williams is not stupid kid...
-he was a good student in high school and was National Honor Society
-he initially did well at Wisconsin, but became depressed, missed classes, then left the school, his probelm at Wisconsin only partly involved academics
-his academics at ICC were fine, and he was on target to get his degree and be eligible at BU, HE WAS NOT flunking, but due to faulty advice, he took too many courses in physical education and he exceeded the limit of credits that could be trasnferred to BU, thus he did not have the proper curriculum....
but he did NOT have a bad GPA.
-then he went to Northern Kentucky and did fine there as well...remaining academically eligible the rest of the way...

 

[ER3]

you should consider picking another example, because you are wrong and misinformed on this one...


DeAaron Williams is not stupid kid...
-he was a good student in high school and was National Honor Society
-he initially did well at Wisconsin, but became depressed, missed classes, then left the school, his probelm at Wisconsin only partly involved academics
-his academics at ICC were fine, and he was on target to get his degree and be eligible at BU, HE WAS NOT flunking, but due to faulty advice, he took too many courses in physical education and he exceeded the limit of credits that could be trasnferred to BU, thus he did not have the proper curriculum....
but he did NOT have a bad GPA.
-then he went to Northern Kentucky and did fine there as well...remaining academically eligible the rest of the way...

Actually, I am NOT misinformed on this one. You are the one with some inaccurate facts on the matter.
DeAaron's academics at ICC were NOT "fine"...
He was nowhere near on target to get his associate's degree there.
Yes, he took too many classes in PHYS ED, and those happened to be the only ones that he got passing grades in. The other classes he was either failing or withdrew from.
I never said DeAaron was a stupid kid...those are your words. I only brought him up to prove the point that basketball players are recruited to come to BU based on their basketball abilities, first and foremost...not based on their academic prowess as some others want to believe...

 

[tornado]

BU, unfortunately has little ability to exert any influence at ICC, and ICC has few if any academic advisors who can be assigned just to the athletes...
DeAaron was caught is a bad situation, got bad advice, but was never suspended for academics...
He did miss games because he skipped practices, but I contend he was a good student and was not an academic failure...