The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Football and men’s basketball players on the nation’s big-time college teams averaged hundreds of points lower on their SATs than their classmates, and some of the gaps are so large they call into question the lengths to which schools will go to win.

The biggest gap between football players and students as a whole occurred at the University of Florida, where players scored 346 points lower than the school’s overall student body. That’s larger than the difference in scores between typical students at the University of Georgia and Harvard University.

FOOTBALL SAT SCORES:
THE TOP 10
School, Average
Georgia Tech, 1028
Oregon State, 997
Michigan, 997
Virginia, 993
Purdue, 974
Indiana, 973
Hawaii, 968
California, 967
Colorado, 966
Iowa, 964
THE BOTTOM 10
School, Average
Oklahoma State, 878
Louisville, 878
Memphis, 890
Florida, 890
Texas Tech, 901
Arkansas, 910
Texas A&M, 911
Mississippi State, 911
Washington State, 916
Michigan State, 917
Nationwide, football players average 220 points lower on the SAT than their classmates — and men’s basketball players average seven points less than football players.

Those figures come from an Atlanta Journal-Constitution study of 54 public universities, including the members of the six major Bowl Championship Series conferences and other schools whose teams finished the 2007-08 season ranked among the football or men’s basketball top 25.

While it’s commonly known that admission standards are different for athletes, the AJC study quantifies how wide the gap is between athletes and the general student body at major universities.

Georgia Tech’s football players had the nation’s best average SAT score, 1028 of a possible 1600, and best average high school GPA, 3.39 of a possible 4.0 in the core curriculum. But Tech’s football players still scored 315 SAT points lower on average than their classmates.

At the University of Georgia, the average football SAT was 949, which is 239 points behind the average for an undergraduate student at Georgia — and 79 points behind Tech’s football average. The Bulldogs’ average high school GPA was 2.77, or 45th out of 53 teams for which football GPAs were available. Their SAT average ranked them 22nd.

Nationwide, coaches who would never offer a scholarship to a player who was 6 inches shorter or half a second slower than other prospects routinely recruit players whose standardized test scores suggest they’re at a competitive disadvantage in the classroom.

just waiting for geathers, lott, and a kicker

Why don’t you “reade” the header. “Reade”?? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Such a typical yellow jacket fan. Next you’ll be telling us that yellow jacket grads make more money than the second best player on the Miami Heat. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Big deal! 45-42…7 years of frustration and all you could muster was a 3 point win, some celebratory rings, and an eventual smackdown by another SEC team that UGA had beaten earlier in the year. Bitter sweet isn’t it?!?

Go Dawgs!!!!!!

Tech did have probation for improper certification of student-athletes and lost scholarships, but no games (unlike UGA’s hoops team…..that’s the difference actual ACADEMIC FRAUD and UNETHICAL CONDUCT will get you.)

Anthony Barnes reported to preseason camp in August 2005 but suffered a knee injury in the opening days of practice. Then, the NCAA clearinghouse flagged a course that he had transferred into Cartersville HS from a previous school and decided that it shouldn’t have counted. So, he left campus (before classes started) and went back to Cartersville to take the course he needed and rehab. Since he hadn’t started classes he didn’t have to take ‘05 as a rs year.

Yes, Lewis Clinch missed part of a season twice……one for grades, one for honor code violations (oh, if GT only had a Hoops 101 class).

Also, you do realize that Tech fought to keep Reuben Houston off the football team while charged, right? After they had appealed the Fulton Co Superior Court judge’s ruling TWICE, they reinstated him….and allowed him to practice/play on the advice of counsel. Would the judge have ruled differently for a dawg? I dunno…..a Cobb Co judge gave a UGA player with two felony charges “pre-trial diversion” several years back (I think he missed a bowl game for it).