Read the quote below on facebook from a runner at a DI school, trying to get a recruit to go there. Surely, this is not the prevelant attitude of most DI runners, let alone a message in the recruiting process.
NAMES and PLACES left out...
"Got a 3.7+ GPA this term on a 1.0 effort. Come here where the only thing you have to work hard at is running."
Sounds like the Oregon attitude, or maybe OU/OSU. Look at the bottom academic D1 schools in the USNWR list that place some emphasis on XC, and you can probably guess.
School doesnt matter. it doenst matter what degree you have as long as you can speak, write, communicate properly.
eastern noreaster wrote:
Read the quote below on facebook from a runner at a DI school, trying to get a recruit to go there. Surely, this is not the prevelant attitude of most DI runners, let alone a message in the recruiting process.
NAMES and PLACES left out...
"Got a 3.7+ GPA this term on a 1.0 effort. Come here where the only thing you have to work hard at is running."
Yes, this is how all D1 students feel. Exactly like this. We are all the same.
I'm a d2 student and I wish I could get a 3.7 gpa from a 1.0 effort.
dang someone is creeping my facebook profile REAL hard
eastern noreaster wrote:
Read the quote below on facebook from a runner at a DI school, trying to get a recruit to go there. Surely, this is not the prevelant attitude of most DI runners, let alone a message in the recruiting process.
NAMES and PLACES left out...
"Got a 3.7+ GPA this term on a 1.0 effort. Come here where the only thing you have to work hard at is running."
This is awesome.
As a teammate of the person who posted this, I can't believe that this is that big of a surprise. What exactly is wrong with this post in the first place? He obviously gets good grades, so it appears he is taking care of business in the classroom. Should he be punished for being able to do that well on such little effort? Also I highly doubt runners choose a school primarily for academics... but that's just me.
It's up to the high schoolers being recruited to decide if this a program or mentality that they want to be a part of. I wouldn't blame the athlete if he chooses to put more focus on running than academics, especially when he is able to get away with putting in 1.0 effort and still make dean's list. And not to mention be an all-region XC runner.
The person you're quoting is way more of a man than you will ever be. And I love him.
im gay
The runners that are good students certainly put an emphasize on academics. The runners that are bad students probably could careless about school. But to put all runners in the latter is flat out incorrect. Kids that have worked hard in the classroom their whole life realize that 4 years at a elite academic school mean so much more than choosing a school thats good at running.
Maybe the kid is a genius and is understating his abilities??
But seriously, this kind of attitude can be found at pretty much every institution. Who knows, maybe he is a rec major! Lot of variables here man, don't put all of the apples into one bag.
What a runner says to a recruit should be given about the same weight as what a guy says to a girl he's trying to hook up with.
LessObvious wrote:
What a runner says to a recruit should be given about the same weight as what a guy says to a girl he's trying to hook up with.
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To the OP, sadly I hear this exact same sentiment coming from medical students. Basically, our education system has produced entire generations of people who will do the absolute minimum to reach a goal they are happy with.
Yes that attitude is no so uncommon when you compete for a large state school. It's not like it's any harder for the kid that's not doing athletics. Fact of the matter is academics at a state school are pretty slack when it comes to final grades (ie they basically hand out As) unless you're in a pre-med or engineering track. As I used to say in HS, "What's my GPA? It's 15:07, BICH!"
coach d wrote:
Sounds like the Oregon attitude, or maybe OU/OSU. Look at the bottom academic D1 schools in the USNWR list that place some emphasis on XC, and you can probably guess.
You really do think that you know everything don't you Coach?
Ralphy wrote:
As I used to say in HS, "What's my GPA? It's 15:07, BICH!"
god, i wish i was that cool...
Ralphy wrote:
Yes that attitude is no so uncommon when you compete for a large state school. It's not like it's any harder for the kid that's not doing athletics. Fact of the matter is academics at a state school are pretty slack when it comes to final grades (ie they basically hand out As) unless you're in a pre-med or engineering track. As I used to say in HS, "What's my GPA? It's 15:07, BICH!"
Yeah, bich!
Ralphy wrote:
Yes that attitude is no so uncommon when you compete for a large state school. It's not like it's any harder for the kid that's not doing athletics. Fact of the matter is academics at a state school are pretty slack when it comes to final grades (ie they basically hand out As) unless you're in a pre-med or engineering track. As I used to say in HS, "What's my GPA? It's 15:07, BICH!"
I've been a student-athlete at a large State school that put way more emphasis on its sports than on its academics, and I gotta say you're wrong, well sort of. At this school athletes were taken care of very well, but that didn't necessarily mean they automatically got A's. There were classes for the types of students who's only desire was to play sports and get a piece of paper saying they had a degree in something, but it wasn't like all athletes were like that. I had teammates who took online classes where they would just wait until the end of the semester and put in two 10 hour days and get their A for a 3 credit class, and I had teammates who did a legitimate degree in 3.5 years and finished their masters by the end of year 5. I've said this before on here, and I'll say it again: one's education in college is largely up to them. Obviously some schools are better than others, but for probably 90% of college students in America, their own effort and initiative plays a bigger role than the particular school they go to. If you want to take 12 credits a semester and major in Communications you can. If you want to take 17 credits a semester and dual major in math and physics and get involved with a prof's research, you can do that too.
As far as the guy who made an ass of himself on facebook, whatever. Either he really is a genius (unlikely), or he just announced to everyone he's a lazy piece of crap who doesn't care about his education.
God, schools like that sound great. Where I am we have to literally spend 48 hours in six days at Band camp, do tons of concerts, and put in 2 hours of practice after school each day for the first quarter and a half. And our people count off 30 points for a subject verb agreement mess up...