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Jekel... I agree. I have heard nothing substantial that he is blowing off classes or the semester. The problem with the NBA ... they don't really care about the colleges or the kids. In order to go to the NBA camps, etc. it almost mandates that the kids will have to blow off the last semester before the draft. It's a shame and a sham. I believe iif it wasn't for that Dion would finish. It's really not his choice, I believe, if he wants to enter the draft.
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If I'm not mistaken APR regards the scholarship players.
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This. APR does not count for walkons; which is why Drummond being a walk-on for UConn could be a big deal...
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He could be going to every class but if he didn't maintain through the rest of the semester it wouldn't matter. So if you're not going to attend in May and take finals, why attend in January?
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And thats why it boggles my mind uks apr is nearly perfect in recent years...
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[quote="You've just described above who it was he was doing all the work for and it wasn't the BB team.[/quote]
You are absolutely right. Waiters becoming the best sixth man in the country and helping the team - the whole year - go 34-3 was sooooooo self-centered.
In a related note, one can't spell delusional without SU.
You are absolutely right. Waiters becoming the best sixth man in the country and helping the team - the whole year - go 34-3 was sooooooo self-centered.
In a related note, one can't spell delusional without SU.
The APR not counting for walk-ons is true but what SU has done in the past is give scholarships to walk-on players later in their SU careers. Reese is a current example. Then when that kid completes his studies in a timely manner it has a positive impact on the APR. I am fairly certain of this.
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Not letting others decide for you is a sign of maturity. I commend that.
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I would really like to know how others handle their players that are leaving early to go pro. I can't imagine that Dion is doing anything different than Terrence Jones or Anthony Davis will do, yet they somehow manage to get their classwork completed and keep Kentucky's APR in order???? How does that work?
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Cousins was a bad apple in hs and the nba so far but apparently was an angel at uk and completed all of his work. Yawn
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If only you quoted your Y pick up game stats this could have been the best quote ever!
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Is it a number of credits issue or maybe freshman courses are easier than sophomore courses even for athletes?
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That makes sense. If scholarships given to former walkons count then we might need the open scholarship next year.
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You are right but JB has been doing this for 30yrs so its not APR related
Yeah but he has not been carrying 6-7 walk-ons for 30 years so you have to believe there is some rationale behind the rather large expansion of the roster.
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Only the 1's with the scholarship counts for APR. I don't think he is about to give 6-7 walk-ons scholarships. I'm not sure why there were so many walk-ons this year.
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I've been wondering this all year as well. We had a ton.
There were almost just as many walk-ons last year as there were this year. I am not saying he is giving schollies to all of these walk-ons but you have to create a farm system of walk-ons, so to speak, if you are going to give some of them a scholly later in their career. You can't just bring a senior walk-on in and give him a scholly.
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Yes but again he has been doing that for 30yrs, I don't know why there were so many walk-ons this year but once you make the team as a walk-on you are pretty much on the team every year unless you don't want to do it anymore. I knew a couple of guys who didn't do it there senior years to concentrate on grades but that was after not being chosen for the scholarship and I have never seen more than one walk-on receive a scholarship per year.
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How much longer until the power conference teams get fed up with the NCAA rules and form something on their own?
There were a ton of walk-ons last year, too. This coming year JB could hand out 2 schollies to the two walk-ons that are going to be seniors next year. They will easily have the scholarship room if Fab and Dion do not come back. Methinks there has to be some (even if minimal) connection between massive expansion of the roster in the last 2 years and the recent impact of the APR.
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Those professors know basketball runs the school so they turn a blind eye - that sort of corruption is virtually impossible to regulate.
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