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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 3087641, member: 716"]
Yeah, this was messed up:

" After talking former SU head coach Scott Shafer’s staff into allowing him to take on computer engineering as an incoming freshman, he continually pushed back classes that interfered with practice or other football-related obligations. "

Marrone did the same thing, one of those tailback-turned-linebackers complained about getting steered out of engineering.

To be fair (though there are a couple ways to read the line "...following his junior year, Fredrick started receiving more flexibility from ... head coach Dino Babers"), I don't know that this coaching staff is any more supportive to an incoming freshman who wants to trade his football work for an education in hard sciences.

This article is first and foremost a credit to Fredrick, but if I were a trustee it'd catch my attention for another reason. Everybody making decisions in the football program ought to be told that the players' four years of free labor entitle them to study in any degree program they wish, regardless of "football obligations."
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