Academic ships?

[AzCat]

I recall hearing something a few weeks back about the NCAA allowing schools to put student athletes with relatively good GPAs on academic 'ships thereby freeing up athletic 'ships.  Anyone know the details?  Could Stewart & Colon be rolled onto academic 'ships next year thus freeing up a couple of spots? 

[waks]

Neither had high enough GPAs. Stew missed it by one point.

[rundown87]

. . .stupid bastard

[yosh]

Neither had high enough GPAs. Stew missed it by one point.

wont he have a chance to improve that before the next class comes in?

[AzCat]

Didn't Colon have like a 3.6?  And wasn't the number from the NCAA ridiculously low like a 3.2 or something?

[ksuno1stunner]

Didn't Colon have like a 3.6?

How did he pull that off?

[coitus]

Didn't Colon have like a 3.6?

How did he pull that off?

left hook.

[waks]

Didn't Colon have like a 3.6?  And wasn't the number from the NCAA ridiculously low like a 3.2 or something?

He wasn't on the Academic All American list and Stew was. Stew was second team. The rule also is that it cannot come into play until their sophomore year. If they do use the second semester then we have a good chance of getting one of them off of athletic scholarship because they will have more time to study..

[1albatross]

I may be wrong here, but I think this new rule is intended more for guys like Merriewhether.  Some schools are going to take advantage of it much in the same way that schools took advantage of the grad school rule.  I don't think it is intended for guys to be switched to an academic schollie from an athletic schollie.  If it happens this way, I think that you will be seeing players pushed into the easier degrees over the next few years in the hopes of opening up schollies.  Hopefully for guys like Merriewhether, this rule does not get retracted like the grad school rule.

[AzCat]

Actually the discussion I heard seemed to indicate that it's a way for the NCAA to reward programs whose players achieve some level of academic success.  It's the carrot to the "lost scholarships for low grad rates" stick.  The rules committee was concerned that some programs would use the rule to stockpile talent but in the end they felt that it was more important to find a way to reward programs that do a good job with academics than to prevent that sort of thing.  What I don't know is the mechanics of precisely how it works and who's eligible. 

I recall Luis being a scholar athlete of the week on one of the cable telecasts and his GPA being exceptional.  I could be mistaken but I'd swear they put it up as a 3.6.

[waks]

You need a 3.2 to qualify and it you have to be atleast a sophomore to qualify. I'm sure that they use the second semester so I guess both could still qualify but Stew was the only one on the All Academic Big XII if I recall for this past semester...

[Pike]

I have a class with Colon....he isn't stupid...

[ksuno1stunner]

I have a class with Colon....he isn't stupid...

Crazy...how does that happen?