2010 Recruiting

[HHS]

Division 1-AA, is allowed 63 FT scholarships these days. This is a drastic change from the 70's, when Div 1-A gave away 105 scholarships, and could give them to seemingly anyone, grades or no grades. In a nutshell todays football player must not only be good, but must also be a good student in the classroom.

Here's the problem!
Not ALL highly recruited football players are both good players and good students! Add to this, is there are some outstanding football players who dont have the scholastic backround to be given a FT scholarship to a program, suchas, Minnesota, so they choose NDSU!

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.

[Bryan]

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.

[tony]

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).

Matt Veldman
Matt Gratzek
Garrett Johnson
Paul Cornick
Joe Lund
Jeff Curtis
Shawn Bibeau
John Prelvitz
Kyle Belmont

[JacksFan06]

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).

Marcus Williams

[tony]

Marcus Williams

A. Don't be a jackass
B. How do you know?
C. He's not playing for NDSU so I'd say that this is a poor example.
D. Don't be a jackass

[BlueBisonRock]

Originally Posted by JacksFan06
Marcus Williams

A. Don't be a jackass
B. How do you know?
C. He's not playing for NDSU so I'd say that this is a poor example.
D. Don't be a jackass

Too late. That boat has sailed!

[tony]

Story with Don Carter blurb

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.

[cvbison1]

A. Don't be a jackass
B. How do you know?
C. He's not playing for NDSU so I'd say that this is a poor example.
D. Don't be a jackass

pretty sure marcus williams is still on the team...just not the roster....he had shoulder surgery i think and something with clearing house or somethin

[BisonNolesFan77]

Story with Don Carter blurb

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.

I thought I read somewhere that he is a young senior as well, meaning when he graduates he will only be 17...

[JacksFan06]

A. Don't be a jackass
B. How do you know?
C. He's not playing for NDSU so I'd say that this is a poor example.
D. Don't be a jackass

You asked the question, I just answered you with a legit response. Your the jackass for getting defensive. jackass.