Given the nature of the beast here, it seems wise to ensure that internships are contingent on a written understanding of the possible scheduling conflicts. Don’t accept the intern if you know he can’t meet your schedule demands.
None of this sounds like stuff the NCAA couldn't figure out and work through in the best interests of the student-athlete, but given that it is simply too much to expect of them to do that, I'll see the NCAA in Hell.
He could have if he hadn’t only had one class towards his degree and failed it. But he struggled in psychology in a previous semester so they wanted him to wait till after football. He only had that and 2 internships to graduate so they were using the classes across 3 semesters. Failing it wasn’t in the plan
It was part of his core course at Falk. When he failed it that triggered the NCAA rule of ineligibility due to lack of progress towards graduation. Which means he lost his scholarship. That's my understanding of it.
My beef is with the statement that it's rare the NCAA would review the case for eligibility favorably.
Right, but it sounds like they haven't pursued that because once eligible at SU it wasn't likely the NCAA would grant whatever Cullen needed to be eligible.
Somebody dropped the ball. There is no way if the academic support staff for the players were engaged that this would have been missed.
Personal knowledge but 15 years ago SU had literally the worst academic support staff in the ncaas. I don’t know if it’s changed but it sounds like it hasn’t.
15 years ago was still the Jake era. Lots has changed since then. Let’s hold off on proclaiming something terrible based on one example.
When was Fab Melo again?
I wasn't sold when you presented an opinion you had / heard 15 years ago, but now that you provide a dis-similar example from 9 years ago, I am sold.
So, this is what is going to happen? Sniping at each other in Shy's thread?
I didn’t snipe at anyone. I made a point completely relevant to Shys thread. SU has a history of dropping the ball on stuff like this.
It was Rosen. Yuck. But the point may be valid.
UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen says college football and studying are incompatible
Just when it seemed as if the world might be spared another Josh Rosen think piece with the UCLA quarterback having gone into scramble-from-the-media mode, Bleacher Report released an interview Tuesday in which Rosen provided his opinion on what he considers the lunacy of playing college football…www.google.com
"Human beings don't belong in school with our schedules. No one in their right mind should have a football player's schedule, and go to school. "
Full time student(40 hours), D1 football player(40 hours), internship(40 hours). That's only 120 hours a week . Have to write off gameday, so 6 days. I see only 20 hours of work a day. Away games, need to write off a travel day, so 5 days. Only need to work 24 hours a day. How could that ever be a problem?
