AL GROH'S CHARM SCHOOL

Colin Cowherd said Virginny was as soft as cookie dough. I guess they’re about as smart.

Still on vacation Orson? It is Thursday.

Well, I guess that’s the price you pay for maintaining standards. We all know we wouldn’t be having this conversation had these kids signed with Tennessee or Auburn.

Where are those guys who were claiming a few weeks ago that UVA’s admissions standards were no higher than anyone else’s?

Touche Robbie; but we do it for the kids.

I had a hard time getting my brain around a 5-second rant lasting an hour…then I realized it’s just playing on a loop. I’m so fucking smart.

You know what else has layers? Parfaits. Have you ever met a person, you say, “Let’s get some parfait,” they say, “Hell no, I don’t like no parfait”? Parfaits are delicious. Parfait’s gotta be the tastiest thing on the whole damn planet.

Al Groh is the new “You’re The Man Now, Dog”.

Al Groh must be trying to keep Hargrave Academy in business.

Al Groh is always good for choice, Iraqi-Information-Minister-esque, quotes. A recent favorite when asked what he felt about the declining results since he started: “Every season is a season unto itself.” Still, I like the guy and make regular donations to his salary fund.

Intentionally recruiting a class where a third of the players fail to qualify is “maintaning standards”? I thought it was chasing Marshall to the bottom of I -A admissions standards, and I expect better from Massah Jefferson’s University.

DevilGrad, you must be confused. The statement was meant to suggest that these kids not being admitted is a product of UVA’s “maintaining standards” in the context of its athletic programs.

Call me crazy, but I don’t think Groh “intentionally” recruited a class of which a third would fail to qualify. His quote simply meant that the possibility that several kids would not qualify was not something of which he and his staff were not aware.

Robbie, Groh’s staff had to be aware of the recruits academic standing. He stated that the Admissions office reviews all transcripts before he will even recruit them.

Groh really has UVA on the right track.

Should you ever find that tape, I posess a working (last time I checked) Betamax.

Thank god no SEC schools engage in the practice of recruiting a ton of kids in hopes that 25 qualify.

You’re with me Pot and Kettle.

you may have seen this already, but it looks like Utah State is making a run in the Fulmer Cup.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/football/ncaa/07/26/bc.fbc.utahst.marijuan.ap/index.html

5 players at once is well done.

UNRELATED UPDATE OF tOSU FAN’S LIBRARY CASE!!

http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/1701221/

I guess there isn’t much to do in Utah…the only girl I know smokes more than a chimney.

USCLink,
   you only know one girl?

I kid I kid

I was wondering if someone would notice that…heh

Recruiting 30 to get 20 signed is alive and well at every school in the SEC except Vandy. It’s comical and pathetic at the same time.

Hey, did Brent Schaeffer ever make it to Ole Miss?

Latest news on Si.com tues. was Schaffer is still dumb….I mean unqualified

kapetey, I’m not sure what has you confused. At no point did I suggest that Groh and his staff were not aware of each recruit’s academic standing—quite the contrary (by the way, you wrongly attribute the quote about taking their transcripts to admissions officials—it was BC’s O’Brien who said that).

My point to DevilGrad was that Groh did not “intentionally” recruit kids who he knew would not qualify—rather, he signed a group of kids with mixed chances of qualifying, (presumably) oversigning in preparation for the possibility of several failing to qualify.

If you thought I was intending to criticize Groh, that was not the case.

I think the key point is, if UVA really was holding itself to high academic standards, it wouldn’t accept kids who barely qualify. It would have standards above the bare minimum, and not recruit kids who can’t make that standard.

Good lord, burkie—did you read the article? The kids they’re losing are not all kids who failed ot meet NCAA minimum standards. As best I can tell, most of them—if not all—are kids that the school will not admit for one reason or another, satisfaction of NCAA minimum standards notwithstanding.

If it were a simple case of meeting minimum NCAA D-1 standards, George Johnson would not be enrolling at Rutgers for the fall, would he?

Does anyone actually care about the academic well being of the student athlete or is that just something nerdy schools with subpar athletic programs say? Just sayin…

Yawn…I take a week off for the Bar and this is all I come back to?

And Hokie Andrew, you’d better check with your McDonald’s manager to see if those contributions are tax-deductible.

Tigerbaiter, I can’t speak to other schools/staffs, but I know very well that UVA and Groh care very much about the academic well-being of the football players at UVA.

Nice touch with the “nerdy schools” phrase—is this third grade?

Bye the way. Great baked potayda!

Please, first it’s Burger King and secondly I get a 1:1 match.

An explanation of the “creative tension” between athletics and admissions:
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149189648759&path=%21sports&s=1045855934844

Thank you.

Merton Hanks, where you at buddy?

If he’s so concerned perhaps he should actually check there academic prowess (or lack therof) prior to them signing a letter of intent. Notre Dame compained about it for years, Doreblogger laments it, and now you. It’s the ‘we suck because we’re smart’ excuse….these coaches are ultimate competitors and I guarantee would rather win than have a team of mensas get their asses handed to them every saturday.

one time bill parcells spanked al groh with walt harris