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Notre Dame and Stanford disagree with your analysis.....and yes, even Vandy is getting in on the act.
SIAP but I have seen a lot of posts about how Cheek's policies hurt recruiting at UT. Could I get some responses from VN on just how our school differs in it's policies from say FL, Bama, or GA and how that affects our football team both during recruiting and during their time here?
SIAP but I have seen a lot of posts about how Cheek's policies hurt recruiting at UT. Could I get some responses from VN on just how our school differs in it's policies from say FL, Bama, or GA and how that affects our football team both during recruiting and during their time here?
SIAP but I have seen a lot of posts about how Cheek's policies hurt recruiting at UT. Could I get some responses from VN on just how our school differs in it's policies from say FL, Bama, or GA and how that affects our football team both during recruiting and during their time here?
I can't speak for incoming freshman, but for JUCO transfers UT does NOT accept their GPA average only their hours transfer. This can hurt or help - for example, if I am a junior transferring to UT and I have 60hrs if I earn a 3.95 GPA my first semester at UT I now have 72-75 hours of 3.95 GPA. Conversely, (and this may have been what is rumored to have happened to ole CP) if I get a 2.1 GPA I now have 72-75 hours of 2.1 GPA.
SIAP but I have seen a lot of posts about how Cheek's policies hurt recruiting at UT. Could I get some responses from VN on just how our school differs in it's policies from say FL, Bama, or GA and how that affects our football team both during recruiting and during their time here?
I can't speak for incoming freshman, but for JUCO transfers UT does NOT accept their GPA average only their hours transfer. This can hurt or help - for example, if I am a junior transferring to UT and I have 60hrs if I earn a 3.95 GPA my first semester at UT I now have 72-75 hours of 3.95 GPA. Conversely, (and this may have been what is rumored to have happened to ole CP) if I get a 2.1 GPA I now have 72-75 hours of 2.1 GPA.
When I transferred from MTSU to Tennessee Tech my GPA dropped from a 3.33 to a 2.91 because Tech doesn't take the +- scale that MTSU utilizes. I got a 3.93 GPA my first semester at Tech and it raised my GPA (I had 80+ hrs) from 2.91 to 2.98. So you can see how difficult it is to alter your GPA once you have so many hours. If a JUCO tanks their first semester at UT, there is just about no hope of recovery for them.
Again, this is information I received from an alumni of UT and I can't address what academic disadvantage UT is at with incoming freshman.
I'll try to explain it the best I can. Having coached at the college level and now the high school level, I have seen both sides of admissions and recruiting. UT's academic standards don't neccessarily hurt recruiting high school athletes that much. It hurt more in recruiting head coaches than it does athletes. Here is why.
The NCAA adopted the APR several years ago. Under the APR system, student athletes are required to meet certain benchmarks toward graduation in order to score points for the APR. This requires them to pick a major early in their time in college. You get knocked on APR when these benchmarks aren't hit. For example, if a student has been progressing toward their degree for a time, and all of a sudden decides that it is not for them and wants to change majors and it turns out that the new major won't take 4 classes that have already been taken. Now that student is behind in his benchmark toward graduation in his new major and thus getting dinged for the APR. He could have a 3.95, and it wouldn't matter. I don't remember the actual percentage to graduation per each semester, but if you lose hours in a change, you will be behind the 8 ball.
Where UT is taking a beating is that there are no more "catch-all" majors anymore. In our Supreme Chancellor's pursuit to make us a top 20 academic institution, those majors were dissolved. No more "University Studies" etc to put kids in. What most places will do or used to do is put kids in those majors for at least the first year or 2 until the kid decides what he really wants to do. Pretty much all of the hours in those majors would transfer to another major, so they wouldn't take a hit.
As far as JUCO kids go, the most common hinderance to getting them in is the extra Math class that SEC schools require that NO other conference requires. This is a conference deal not a UT specific deal.