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What? Unpossible!

So not only do they suck at sports, but they’re dumb! Way to go, the U!

So since when were ACT scores such a perfect measure of who should and should not attend college?

ACT is perfect, but 15 people below a 15! Wow! No one would complain if the teams didn’t bite. Maybe we should try admitting some smarter kids. Then we might win.

Yeah, nobody’s calling the ACT perfect but I’m pretty sure a score of 15 puts you in Peter Griffin land.

Apparently I called the ACT perfect. Of course, I meant it isn’t perfect. Although my score was useful for fooling admissions counselors into thinking that I was smart.

Good thing…they…tiptoed …around…the racial..issue.

The fact that white raciasts don’t know how to use ellipses? I don’t see how that’s germane to this discussion.

They didn’t tiptoe around the racial issue. Did you read the story?

If they didn’t come out and say that blacks are naturally stupider and are getting a free pass on education because they are natural atheletes, bud feels the issue has not gotten the attention it deserves. The story should also have detailed the inherent criminality of African-Americans, as well as their tendency to use the “walkie talkie” fuction of their cellphones.

Note to self: Phrase this in such a way that it’s clear that thisis what bud believes, and not me.

Note to self: That note seemed to take care of it.

Note to self: Actually, the cell phone thing is right on the money.

I mean by separating the test scores / grad stats of white athletes from the non-white athletes.

What emerges is a racist tendency to lower the standards even MORE for non-white athletes.

That’s my point.

Got it, puppet-boy?

The INSTITUTION is in fact racist, not me.

The U is a complete joke athletically (except for men’s hockey), and is run by pathetic athletic ‘personalities’ (Mason, Maturi, Monson, Sid / Pinky).

Who cares?

You have quite a lot of experience with institutions, don’t you?

I knew that walkie talkie bit was straight max and not imitation bud jr

Read today’s Strib article on former U player Gary Russell.

Case closed.

A Little Game You All Can Play: Just going by a MNspeak topic’s title, guess how many replies it will take for somebody to be accused of being racist.

You can bet against your friends and co-workers.

Alternate Version (or tie breaker): Substitute partisan political talking point for racist accusation.

Also known as “The 8 degrees of MSPARBER” game.

Is it fair to blame the program for these failures? Their mission, obviously, is to bring in the best football players they can get who can arguably make it in the academics. Those athletes are there at the U, not so much to earn degrees or to stand by the goal post and be smart, but to win football games. No one gives bigger donations to the U because its losing team had the highest grades in the nation.

And, as for the students involved, I’m guessing that use of their athletic gifts is probably the only shot they would get at admission to, and possible graduation from, the U. Sure, they’re barely, if at all, qualified, but they do get a chance they wouldn’t otherwise get. And many of them do earn degrees, not in microbiology, of course, but the world does need accredited gym teachers, too.

So, where’s the downside? Marginal students get a chance to graduate from a good school, along with the national exposure of their football talents, and the school gets huge revenues from people who care about college football. Some students flunk out, but at least they got a shot.

In all fairness, I only accuse racists of being racist.

If the U is going to admit people to “give them a shot”, they should have kept General College around. That was the purpose of the program. And if we want to give these students a shot at a degree, we need to do everything we can to make sure they make it. Having students on the edge who are pressured to focus more on sports than their classes is a problem. They need to be in situations where they can concentrate on their grades or else they are bound to fail.

Plenty of good college athletes do just fine in college and go on to productive lives.

Other folks spend their time growing hideous mustaches and playing with puppets.

I am also quite skilled at cricket.

I am sure you are, wood master.

The entertainment is right here.

Once again, another footnote in Governor Palwenty’s legecy when it comes to higher education. LOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vote Dem 06.

“Once again, another footnote in Governor Palwenty’s legecy when it comes to higher education.“

Pawlenty made football players dumb?

I always thought it was just all the whacks on the head.

legecy

Whom should we blame your lack of spelling ability?

Whom should we blame your lack of spelling ability?

Get a (beep*) life TBartel!

That’s beepING life, big G.