MYLES BRAND ANSWERS OUR QUESTIONS. SORT OF.

by Orson on Aug 28, 2006 11:19 AM EDT

Listen to Myles Brand answer our questions on Mondays with Myles. We submitted the questions about a month or so ago. He answers some of them...sort of. We'll have to piece together a response when we've got time to parse through some of the geniunely Clintonian answers Brand puts out there.

We asked questions in the nicest way of Myles Brand. He answered.

On an interesting counter note to his answer on the meaning of the APR: only eight schools managed to get all of their recruiting class in without losing a recruit. Those schools were Boston College, Florida, Iowa, Northwestern, Ohio State, Texas, and Stanford, all schools with either a.) high academic standards anyway, or b.) bigass recruiting and academic support budgets. So when he talks about schools in "the equity conferences" rolling through the process...well, there's one more bit of evidence hot of the presses for that.

Besides bragging on Florida (sound of shoulder-brushing should be deafening at this point,) special mention must be given to ChanPa and Georgia Tech. A few years of non-qualifying disasters must have led to an HR bloodbath in academic support, since whomever they've got now seems to be doing a superb job in monitoring incoming recruits and their academics. Get them through a whole year and we may have to put away our Colbert-issue wagging finger for a while.

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I don’t think Notre Dame lost any recruits. Is it possible they were overlooked because the article focused on conference affiliated teams?

by Joe on Aug 28, 2006 11:37 AM EDT reply actions

The article is only referring to schools from a BCS conference.

It should read, “only 8 schools from a BCS conference got all their recruits in”. I know Notre Dame did, and probably at least a few other schools from lesser conferences.

by matt on Aug 28, 2006 11:40 AM EDT reply actions

Guarantee you the academies didn’t either….or are they considered less recruits and more future assassins for freedom?

by NoleinTexas on Aug 28, 2006 11:40 AM EDT reply actions

Holy poor audio quality

by Willy Mac on Aug 28, 2006 11:42 AM EDT reply actions

Iowa did lose a recruit this year. This would be another great follow-up Q for Miles. His name is Julian Smith. Here’s a quote on the situation.

Smith said the Clearinghouse “red flagged” his collegiate entrance exam and Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said the matter “isn’t totally closed.”

“The problem is, school starts on Monday, and as I understand it if you don’t pass through the Clearinghouse you’re not eligible to start classes,” Ferentz said.

He was never academically disqualified, problem was he never qualified becasue the clearing house didn’t get it’s act together.

The worst part of the situation is that the NCAA Clearing House is in Iowa City! Where’s the hometown call when you need it.

by Nile on Aug 28, 2006 11:50 AM EDT reply actions

Last year some players did not find out their fate from the clearinghouse until the middle of the season. Good luck with that.

by tnirishfan on Aug 28, 2006 12:05 PM EDT reply actions

I’ll never forget the ATL Journal Constitution college football story circa 1998. The article was going through all the SEC teams and detailing the non-qualifiying football recruits. If I recall, the headline was, “Football Academic Casualties”. Most teams had 2 or 3 that “didn’t make the grade”.

Florida had a lone entry which was puzzling to me since all recruits had qualified …. well, almost all.

Seems the AJC decided to include James McGriff as a “casualty” even though he FREAKIN’ DROWNED IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN before enrolling at UF.

Needless to say, my ire was placed in written form and sent to the paper with a copy of Jeremy Foley.

Nasty stuff, that AJC …. just nasty.

by DHC on Aug 28, 2006 12:40 PM EDT reply actions

Texas Tech didn’t make the list?

by Tommy Gee on Aug 28, 2006 2:55 PM EDT reply actions

High academic standards? Which of these schools doesn’t belong? Georgia Tech, Boston College, Florida, Iowa, Northwestern, Texas, Stanford and . . . Ohio State.

by Ahab on Aug 28, 2006 5:08 PM EDT reply actions

One thing you can say about tOSU is that at least most of the guys on the team could get into the school if they didn’t play football. – Yeah, I know. Forgive tOSU for being a somewhat decent institution available for those of us who couldn’t afford or get it into the Notre Dames of the world.

If fans of schools like Notre Dame want to continualy bitch about academic standards they should actually apply the same rigorous standards to atheletes as they do to normal students who apply—I’m not saying most football players at ND aren’t smart it’s just that it takes more than just smart to get into ND without being sweet at football; you have to be a near genius!—Then they can join 1-AA and play Harvard. Only then should they thumb their noses at college football’s elite teams… Until then just be happy you’ll have a better job about of college than most of us kids at tOSU and take your losses like men, without making excuses.

by Steve on Aug 28, 2006 7:51 PM EDT reply actions