Academic All-Americans

[Jarid in Cedar]

I wanted to post a kudos to Matt Bauman, Scott Johnson, and Zane Beadles for being recognized at Academic AA's. An awesome accomplishment.

[Viking]

I wanted to post a kudos to Matt Bauman, Scott Johnson, and Zane Beadles for being recognized at Academic AA's. An awesome accomplishment.

Scott is my cousin's son and is such a solid guy. I would hire him in a heartbeat (he speaks portuguese, too)

[BlueHair]

While Academic All-Americans are nice, I wish we had real All-Americans.

[Ruby Soho]

While Academic All-Americans are nice, I wish we had real All-Americans.

You mean like Dennis Pitta.

[BoylenOver]

I wanted to post a kudos to Matt Bauman, Scott Johnson, and Zane Beadles for being recognized at Academic AA's. An awesome accomplishment.

Beadles is in engineering, and he's academic AA. That's crazy-smart.

[ERCougar]

While Academic All-Americans are nice, I wish we had real All-Americans.

I know what you're saying here (and I see the ), but really, I'd be pretty proud to be a fan of a team full of academic AA's.

I could much sooner be a fan of Stanford or the service academies than Florida.

[Ruby Soho]

I know what you're saying here (and I see the ),
I could much sooner be a fan of Stanford or the service academies than Florida.

Not me, I could much sooner be a fan of the Sooners than an Ivy League program or a Service Academy. Too many white players makes for a boring brand of football, hardest part of being a Cougar fan.

[byu71]

I know what you're saying here (and I see the ), but really, I'd be pretty proud to be a fan of a team full of academic AA's.

I could much sooner be a fan of Stanford or the service academies than Florida.

Florida has as many Academic All Americans as Stanford does. Florida's player is 1st team, Stanfords is second. Penn St. actually had 3 academic all americans. Texas has as many as BYU does, 2. You can put out top football teams with good students on them.

I think we all do it, but we judge what we like and support based on our own set of principles. Nothing wrong with that. I think we should also remember there are great people out there that don't conform to all of our own basic principles.

[ERCougar]

Florida has as many Academic All Americans as Stanford does. Florida's player is 1st team, Stanfords is second. Penn St. actually had 3 academic all americans. Texas has as many as BYU does, 2. You can put out top football teams with good students on them.

I think we all do it, but we judge what we like and support based on our own set of principles. Nothing wrong with that. I think we should also remember there are great people out there that don't conform to all of our own basic principles.

That's good that Florida has a lot of Academic AA's. I was just throwing out an example of a great football program vs a great academic program. In case you're projecting your HC hatred (which I agree with) on this, this has nothing to do with HC and everything to do with football programs using college athletes and spitting them out. The fact that a program has a lost of AA's shows it has more than a cursory interest in preparing these kids for life.

I couldn't care less if an athlete lives the HC.

[ERCougar]

Not me, I could much sooner be a fan of the Sooners than an Ivy League program or a Service Academy. Too many white players makes for a boring brand of football, hardest part of being a Cougar fan.

What the heck does this have to do with having white football players?

[beefytee]

My guess is that it is much easier to get a 4.0 at Florida than it is at Stanford.

But who knows?

[Indy Coug]

What the heck does this have to do with having white football players?

Cut Ruby Soho some slack. He's from Georgia, so he can't help himself; he was raised this way.

[byu71]

That's good that Florida has a lot of Academic AA's. I was just throwing out an example of a great football program vs a great academic program. In case you're projecting your HC hatred (which I agree with) on this, this has nothing to do with HC and everything to do with football programs using college athletes and spitting them out. The fact that a program has a lost of AA's shows it has more than a cursory interest in preparing these kids for life.

I couldn't care less if an athlete lives the HC.

Nope, not the hatred for the HC. I also wasn't knocking that you prefer to pull for a good academic institution over one that isn't.




My point is more that there is room for all of us to pull for what we want to pull for. Personally I know Harvard, Stanford, Yale, etc. are great academic institutions. I also know they put out some of the greatest unethical SOB's in the business world that have ever walked the earth.

Not that this means anything, but by far the lousiest manager I have ever had was a Stanford MBA. The two best managers I have ever had were Weber St. and Idaho St. grads.

Stanford was founded by a "robber baron" if memory serves me correct.

I am not trying to accuse you of anything, but I think sometimes when we say we would rather support a high academic insitution or an instituion with high morals, we might find some who do that are stating that they are on a higher plane than those who seperate the football from the rest of the stuff that goes on at the school.

On the HC, I don't hate the HC. I dislike the opinion of people that think it is some kind of "higher" law. The "we have the HC", so we are a more moral institution than you mentality.

[ERCougar]

Nope, not the hatred for the HC. I also wasn't knocking that you prefer to pull for a good academic institution over one that isn't.




My point is more that there is room for all of us to pull for what we want to pull for. Personally I know Harvard, Stanford, Yale, etc. are great academic institutions. I also know they put out some of the greatest unethical SOB's in the business world that have ever walked the earth.

Not that this means anything, but by far the lousiest manager I have ever had was a Stanford MBA. The two best managers I have ever had were Weber St. and Idaho St. grads.

Stanford was founded by a "robber baron" if memory serves me correct.

I am not trying to accuse you of anything, but I think sometimes when we say we would rather support a high academic insitution or an instituion with high morals, we might find some who do that are stating that they are on a higher plane than those who seperate the football from the rest of the stuff that goes on at the school.

On the HC, I don't hate the HC. I dislike the opinion of people that think it is some kind of "higher" law. The "we have the HC", so we are a more moral institution than you mentality.

It's not necessarily the institution I care about and really, I have no idea if Florida is a good academic institution. I'm only saying that I'm proud of Academic AA's--in general, they've achieved excellence both on and off the field and that speaks well for their future, I bet on average better than your typical athletic AA.

Sure there are exceptions, but all else being equal, better college performance prepares a student better for life than poor college performance.

[jay santos]

Hearing that our guys made Academic All-America team is met with the same interest by me as hearing BYU won a swim meet or placed in international dance.