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(ESPN) Interesting Syracuse's Fab Mello to miss third grade....er... game. Third game   (espn.go.com) divider line 11
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ArtosRC
2012-01-27 08:08:41 PM
According to a Syracuse spokesman, coach Jim Boeheim said Thursday night that Melo's situation is taking longer to resolve than anticipated.

Threats to the professors can only go so far, after all.
 
gimmegimme
2012-01-27 08:35:46 PM
I have a lot of sympathy for football and basketball players at D1 schools. They don't have anyone to help them through their academic lives. They can't register for class early for special only-for-athlete classes, they don't have counselors specifically assigned to spend their whole day helping them, they don't have free tutoring any time they need it, they don't generally take not-real majors, they don't have the good will of other teachers, they don't get to go through college while worrying about how they will eat and pay rent...

THey deserve our pity.
 
jayhawk88
2012-01-27 09:01:42 PM
"Coach Boeheim said that he expected brother Rob to pick up the slack."
 
FriarReb98 [TotalFark]
2012-01-27 09:47:07 PM
gimmegimme: they don't have the good will of other teachers

This is the only line I can possibly say is unintendedly not ironic. When I was at Providence, my American History 102 teacher was a priest but not an actual Friar; he was a pastor at some church in Cranston IIRC. We had God Shammgod in our class, and he absolutely HATED him. Would not give him any slack whatsoever, because he correctly saw that God was an idiot jock who wasn't in college for an education. God didn't finish the term; probably got around the academic hit somehow too, though I don't know for sure.

There are some teachers who really will not play the game, and usually it's ones who have good standing but aren't really under the school's thumb.

\I do admit that I'm glad Fr. Hayman got proven right after God's trips to Greece and the D-League
\\God wasn't quite a Kwame Brown level failure, but damned if he didn't try
 
gimmegimme
2012-01-27 10:06:49 PM
FriarReb98: gimmegimme: they don't have the good will of other teachers

This is the only line I can possibly say is unintendedly not ironic. When I was at Providence, my American History 102 teacher was a priest but not an actual Friar; he was a pastor at some church in Cranston IIRC. We had God Shammgod in our class, and he absolutely HATED him. Would not give him any slack whatsoever, because he correctly saw that God was an idiot jock who wasn't in college for an education. God didn't finish the term; probably got around the academic hit somehow too, though I don't know for sure.

There are some teachers who really will not play the game, and usually it's ones who have good standing but aren't really under the school's thumb.

\I do admit that I'm glad Fr. Hayman got proven right after God's trips to Greece and the D-League
\\God wasn't quite a Kwame Brown level failure, but damned if he didn't try

You're right. Some non-student athlete professors resent such students. All in all, I'm more than willing to take those odds.
 
ElwoodCuse
2012-01-27 10:25:10 PM
If colleges aren't going to cut athletes in on the billions they make off of them, the least they can do is fudge their grades and stuff
 
gimmegimme
2012-01-27 11:23:19 PM
ElwoodCuse: If colleges aren't going to cut athletes in on the billions they make off of them, the least they can do is fudge their grades and stuff

1) They do fudge the grades on many, many levels. It's VERY hard to fail if you're someone like Fab. He worked very hard at failing. There are several levels of decently paid professionals doing all they can to keep people like him at least at a D-.

2) Tuition + board + travel expenses + no interest on college loans....etc.
 
Tex Colorado the Arizona Assassin [TotalFark]
2012-01-28 08:02:32 AM
Subtard should have used the Ironic tag. Spelling a person's name incorrectly while calling him stupid is the height of irony.

I'd love to offer insight, but everyone is staying incredibly tight-lipped about this. The rumor that's getting the most traction is that another athlete (non-revenue sport) in one of Fab's classes was caught cheating on the final and the university is investigating whether anyone else in that class cheated. Fab may just be a victim of guilt-by-association, but we don't know yet.

That said,

1. Cut the guy some slack. He's only been in the US for three years. He probably is still struggling with English.
2. At least SU has the integrity to put academics first. What does this say about OTHER major athletic programs? Are we really supposed to believe Demarcus Cousins got higher than a Blutarsky when he was at UK?
 
merkey88
2012-01-28 12:36:47 PM
Tex Colorado the Arizona Assassin: 2. At least SU has the integrity to put academics first. What does this say about OTHER major athletic programs? Are we really supposed to believe Demarcus Cousins got higher than a Blutarsky when he was at UK?

An example I love is UCONN. Under the new regulations for team grades this year, they wouldn't have been eligible to play in the tournament last year. How dumb do you have to be to not keep a 2.5 in Storrs? It's not like you're in a major city.
 
Tex Colorado the Arizona Assassin [TotalFark]
2012-01-28 03:15:02 PM
merkey88: An example I love is UCONN. Under the new regulations for team grades this year, they wouldn't have been eligible to play in the tournament last year. How dumb do you have to be to not keep a 2.5 in Storrs? It's not like you're in a major city.

Kemba Walker admits he read only one book while he was an inmate at Storrs Correctional: Linky (new window)
 
Yanks_RSJ
2012-01-28 11:09:48 PM
jayhawk88: "Coach Boeheim said that he expected brother Rob to pick up the slack."

You know it's true.
 
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