Daily Dose of Delusion, Part III

#77
#77
obxvol said:
Tennessee led the SEC in 2005 with 30 football student-athletes on the Fall Academic Honor Roll.

Four of Tennessee's five players taken in the 2006 NFL Draft have completed their undergraduate degrees.

Eight Vol football players have been named first team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America.

In 2005, six Volunteers, including starters Jason Allen, Rick Clausen, C.J. Fayton, Richie Gandy and Jason Mitchell, entered their senior seasons as UT graduates.

Since 1997, Tennessee stands as the only football program to have two players earn the prestigious Draddy Award, courtesy of Peyton Manning in 1997 and Michael Munoz in 2004. The Draddy often is referred to as the "Academic Heisman."
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These statistics are not very impressive when one considers how EASY it would be to graduate from UTenn, an institution ranked just below the University of Tulsa.

I mean, that's like comparing the number of graduating football players from U of Mississippi with the number graduating from Yale. And just so we are clear in that analogy Florida = Yale.
 
#78
#78
Lawgator

Show us your numbers for these categories. Put a paralegal on it. I'm just curious. Oh, don't bother with the Draddy Award. We are the only football program with a couple of those so save yourself the trouble.
 
#79
#79
obxvol said:
Lawgator

Show us your numbers for these categories. Put a paralegal on it. I'm just curious. Oh, don't bother with the Draddy Award. We are the only football program with a couple of those so save yourself the trouble.
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I haven't a clue what the grad rate is, nor will I take the time to look it up. The reason is that comparing graduation rates is utterly meaningless. And the reason for that is that graduating from one does not mean you could graduate from the other.
 
#80
#80
lawgator1 said:
These statistics are not very impressive when one considers how EASY it would be to graduate from UTenn, an institution ranked just below the University of Tulsa.

I mean, that's like comparing the number of graduating football players from U of Mississippi with the number graduating from Yale. And just so we are clear in that analogy Florida = Yale.
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What a stupid comment. You and I know that "ease of graduation" is more determined by choice of major than anything else. I can tell you, graduating from UT in Engineering is much different than in say, Journalism.
 
#81
#81
lawgator1 said:
I haven't a clue what the grad rate is, nor will I take the time to look it up. The reason is that comparing graduation rates is utterly meaningless. And the reason for that is that graduating from one does not mean you could graduate from the other.
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Exactly. Most UF grads I meet couldn't get admitted to the "U."
 
#82
#82
Now you are being silly. It's not like either school is a Harvard or Yale. We are both good schools with special programs found at each. Tennessee's average ACT/SAT and gpa numbers for entrance have actually increased in the last few years due to the lottery scholarships for in state students. It is truly a better academic school than when I attended thirteen years ago.

Seriously, put some research behind it and lets compare.
 
#84
#84
obxvol said:
Now you are being silly. It's not like either school is a Harvard or Yale. We are both good schools with special programs found at each. Tennessee's average ACT/SAT and gpa numbers for entrance have actually increased in the last few years due to the lottery scholarships for in state students. It is truly a better academic school than when I attended thirteen years ago.

Seriously, put some research behind it and lets compare.
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If I applied to UF now, I'd never get in.
 
#86
#86
lawgator, didn't we have this same discussion last year?
 
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