This is what the school wants. Don't let this "Donna loves football" nonsense fool you.
They would rather have winless seasons and football players going to class and graduating and staying out of trouble, than a national title the way we used to win them (and yes, we used to finesse players through class and take kids who had no business being in college).....
They WANTED this.
this you are wrong on, mistakes have been made but you are beyond wrong on the intent of the outcome. But believe what you want.
The hired back to back coaches who's biggest skill is keeping their players in line and in class. Randy did it by stalking kids and stifling them with scowls. Al does it by convincing the kids that the way to go about things is by being soft, non-aggressive, and more concerned with things other than football.
The days of this U allowing kids to not go to class and still get grades, or look the other way about a kid smoking pot or missing curfew, or having no business in a college environment, or talking **** on the field, or choosing the weight room over the chemistry lab, are OVER. This is what football is like at most ACC schools. Letting the admin fool you into thinking football is in ANY WAY a priority is how we are in this mess in the first place.
Don't **** on me and tell me it's raining. Johnny Football was taking two classes last year during football season, and both were online. Accept that if you want to be an elite program, THATS HOW IT"S DONE. And then ask yourself if you really think Shalala and the BOT (who all fancy themselves as Harvard grads despite all of them being grads of suntan you) would allow any of our players to take two classes a semester, both online. They wouldn't. Neither would Duke, Wake, GT, UVA, or BC. As you saw at UNC, they went out of their way after years of futility to make it easy on the kids passing class. You CANNOT field a major college program at a decent to good academic school and simultaneously ask the players to be real students. It's just not feasible.
Do you think ANY of those FSU players do anything school related? They don't. There was a recent Times article about it. Same for USC, OSU, Oregon, the entire SEC outside of Vandy, Louisville, and on and on.
So we as fans (and alum which sadly I am), have to draw a line in the sand: would we rather our kids go to class, or win football games. Both is NOT possible here. This isn't Stanford where we can nationally recruit the smartest kids in the country and play advanced NFL concepts with a bunch of highly self motivated brilliant kids. We will NEVER be that. And for every Stanford is a dozen other good schools that simply CANNOT compete b/c of the demands of their student athletes.
