FBS and FCS (1A & 1AA) have the same academic standards, so Minnesota and NDSU are playing by the same rules. DII has slightly lower academic standards, which is why some DI prospects end up at UMD or Winona.
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not true, the ncaa does have a minimum standard that all schools must use but then each individual school also has there own set of criteria for admission. Some choose to use the NCAA minimum as there guideline(SEC) while most others have higher standards than the NCAA, and then you have the Northwesterns, Vandy's, Duke's, Standford's of the world who have extremely high criteria for admission and have a much smaller pool of players in football and basketball to choose from.
Bryan, HHS is absolutely right. Minnesota and NDSU do play by exactly the same rules (unless the UofM has some hard and fast rules about academic minimums that get enforced on student-athlete admission).
How often do you think a Minnesota kid get passed over by the Gophers because of academics and end up at NDSU? In my opinion, if that has actually happened since NDSU has gone DI, it is a very rare thing (and relatively recent given the whole tutors-doing-homework scandal at the UofM).
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Don Carter, being the Illinois LB recruit. Article says he's raw but fast. His rushing stats caught my eye: 3 rushes, 121 yard, and 3 TDs. :) The only defensive stat they gave for him was that he had an INT.