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AJC > Sports > UGA > Blog > Archives > 2007 > July > 25 > Entry
DEL.ICIO.USGetting to the core of the problem
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia is closely watching some potential midyear transfers this year. That’s because a change in NCAA entry requirements that will be imposed starting in 2008. That year a player will have to have 16 core credits to be able to make it into a Division I-A program. Right now and at the midyear players will only need 14 core credits.
“We are looking at kids really close,’’ Richt said. “And with some it might make a difference whether they are coming in at the midyear or not.’’ Georgia has had a lot of success with midyear transfers and started to bring in more and more players. So in one aspect this moving up of core courses by the NCAA may be a good thing for Georgia.
In the long run it also could be a good thing. With 16 core courses now being required the NCAA may have to expand the list of core courses accepted. That is the hope of Bob Jones.
Now you may not know Bob Jones from Tom Jones. But he is the principal at Vance Cuff’s high school. And Jones has been in an argument with the Clearinghouse over what qualifies as a core course since April. That was when he heard a course at his high school and on Cuff’s transcript was first not allowed by the Clearinghouse and NCAA.
Jones sent 40 pages of documentation three separate times to the Clearinghouse, including documents from the Department of Education, to get that course approved. Each time he has been denied. That story is ongoing. And now Georgia has taken up the fight for a waiver on that course to be approved.
Next year Jones said with the expansion of the core credits needed some of the classes that are currently not allowed may be allowed. That could help high school guidance counselors in showing kids the myriad options they have when it comes to getting those 16 core courses.
Comments
By daledog
July 25, 2007 3:40 PM | Link to this
Zzzzzzzzzz
By unknown hensen
July 25, 2007 3:46 PM | Link to this
First! yawn
By jimdawg
July 25, 2007 4:21 PM | Link to this
I know this is an important aspect of the D1 college sucess these days but it does make for a boring topic to discuss. I guess it could be worse - we could be forced to a YECH football site and listen to the normal crap that comes out of thier mouths. Looking forward to what (if anything) comes out of the meetings in B-ham. How many folks plan on going out to the Galleria on Monday for the Bulldog club meeting?
By Greg
July 25, 2007 4:36 PM | Link to this
This comment copied and pasted from a Moultrie Observer article on Cuff….
“Colquitt County officials have tried to get the course – which is approved as a core course at a number of other schools, including several in Region 1-AAAAA – approved as a core course by appealing to the NCAA Clearinghouse.”
…makes you realize how bad the young man is getting hosed by the NCAA. He did everything he was required or so it seemed. No wonder the principal at his high school is going to such great lengths to make it right. If Cuff doesn’t get in, the school system is to blame and they’re going to have to live with the impact their error might have on Cuff’s future.
By yellowblood
July 25, 2007 4:44 PM | Link to this
Jimdawg: Not many
By jimdawg
July 25, 2007 4:50 PM | Link to this
Come on out Yellowblood and I will buy you a Grape soda or what ever they serve you down in the flats…
By Wes
July 25, 2007 5:04 PM | Link to this
Really? This is the best topic you could come up with?
By mcdawg
July 25, 2007 5:24 PM | Link to this
whoszie whatzie???
By GW
July 25, 2007 6:05 PM | Link to this
Who are these “midyear transfers” that Georgia has had so much success with? I guess you mean anyone, High School or JUCO, that entered in January.
By Wozzo the Wonder Dog
July 25, 2007 6:20 PM | Link to this
Remember, if you don’t like the topic, you can always hijack the blog (but you have to come up with an interesting subject). Option 1 What’s your prediction for UGA this year: # of wins; who we lose to; bowl game; bowl opponent.
Option 2 Biggest upsets (individual games) and biggest surprise teams this year.
By ConyersDawg
July 25, 2007 6:20 PM | Link to this
i’ll be there jimdawg
By Lowcountry Bulldawg
July 25, 2007 7:24 PM | Link to this
Can’t stop listening to this song! Damn I am ready for the season to start!
A long ride back from Jacksonville 500 miles from a game we should’ve won Man we ought a burn down that stadium Thought this year was gonna be ours Talking too much junk in those Florida bars Now I’m stunned man I wish it was 1981,
now I know why they say every dog has his days can’t win every game we play but every dog has his days
Longing for those glory days like the one he cried run Lindsay Run I was too young to be there but I’m sure it was fun I bet that crowd was flyin high And I bet Glory to ol’ Georgia was cried as the band played Man I wish I could feel that way today
now I know why they say every dog has his days can’t win every game we play but every dog has his days
and I played back my favorite victories like that last minute win up in Tennessee I bet them hob nails hurt like hell And I got sweet memories of 2002 won the SEC And the sugar bowl too Man we had a ball down on Bourbon Street Ooh, those were the days
Just got my tickets in the mail Septembers coming fast and I can hardly wait They say these guys they might take us all the way And if they do I’ll be flying high and there’ll probably be a happy tear in my eye but rain or shine I’ll be yellin’ go Dawgs from the 20 yard line, and
I know why they say every dog has his days can’t win every game we play but every dog has his days
and we’ll be singing Glory, Glory to ol’ Georgia Glory, Glory to ol’ Georgia Glory, Glory to ol’ Georgia Oh Georgia Hail to the
By Lee
July 25, 2007 7:49 PM | Link to this
Speaking of academics…..
Saw in today’s AJC where Richt is implementing a tougher academic program. No, not tougher academics as in making them take real classes instead of the “Sports Marketing” program, tougher academics as in trying to make sure the idiots actually go to class.
Here’s how it goes, miss so many classes, you have to set out for 10% of the games, etc, etc.
But what caught my eye was that UGA uses FORTY class checkers, whose job is to stand outside the classroom door and make sure that the idiots actually attend.
Hey college football coaches, how’s this for an academic policy: We’ll give you a scholarship AFTER you apply to school and get accepted just like every other student who attends.
Maybe if you signed players whose IQ was above room temperature, you wouldn’t have to check the police reports every morning to make sure they didn’t stray off the farm the night before.
But, when you have coaches pulling in million$, what do you expect?
By sj
July 25, 2007 7:49 PM | Link to this
Why can’t UGa and Cuff take a page out of Auburn’s policy manual?….just make up the data on the player’s transcript. Didn’t Auburn file false gradws on several (3) recruits?
By NASCARfan
July 25, 2007 7:53 PM | Link to this
Uh-oh! Looks like that crazy old man in South Carolina who took that job to get a membership to Augusta National is opening up his big mouth again. Too bad he no longer has the horses to to make his words matter.
The only thing it’ll do is inflame the trolls like Lamecock Gary to come on OUR boards and talk trash. Thank God we play them so early in the season, because the one thing I love the most is Lamecock Gary’s disappearing act for 10 months a year.
By bubba
July 25, 2007 8:14 PM | Link to this
how much do we pay them transfers?
By Cuz
July 25, 2007 9:22 PM | Link to this
Nascar, sitting here in my observation post on the Savannah River, I concour. Really what SOS is doing is firing up the faithful to believe they can beat the Dawgs and when that fails, that they can beat someone they are not supposed to and make it to a mediocre bowl game. Presto, another successful Gameclock season.
By "GOOD" Dawg
July 25, 2007 11:23 PM | Link to this
I thought this was a very informative article. It should be a concern for all Dawg fans since admission comes before playing. ZZZZZZZZ now but remember this is still supposed to be college football !!!!
By Gen Neyland
July 26, 2007 12:25 AM | Link to this
cuz
I sleep well knowing you’ve got the Savannah River covered. I use to worry about them Yankees floating up from the pond. No more…Coach Steve…What an enigma. What an ego. What an a$$. He may well win 1 or 2 outta 3 from the big boys in the East this year and that could be us and/or UF. I think UGA beats him on a CoUTu 58 yarder at the bell…We’uns and UF’uns, well, I just don’t know…Still toooo early to believe his head game tactics…Why, oh why, do I dislike him so much..?
By Gen Neyland
July 26, 2007 12:37 AM | Link to this
Lowcountry Bulldawg
I think I’d take a serving of Lowcountry Boil if I were you, or else you’d choke on last years UT’s ’ upset win ’ in Athens…Can hobnail boots be substituted for corn-on-the-cob niblets in this fine dish..?
By Lowcountry Bulldawg
July 26, 2007 9:01 AM | Link to this
Gen,
It sure can as long as you’ll share a little bit of Old #07.
By scooter11
July 26, 2007 9:04 AM | Link to this
Moron Lee: Assuming you’re a jackette (easy call), maybe a few class checkers at NATS would’ve prevented all the ineligible players that got you in a mess.
By Gen Neyland
July 26, 2007 11:27 AM | Link to this
Lowcountry Bulldawg
Sounds good. Guess I’ll have mine with hobnail boots in 2007, again…I have a bad case of woe and alas working this season for the boys of Rocky Top.
By southern girls like it dawgy style!
July 26, 2007 11:38 AM | Link to this
lowcountry,
that song is bad a$$, as a matter of fact all of corey smith stuff is good. but that one gives me chill bumps!
By Atlanta Gator
July 26, 2007 1:06 PM | Link to this
NASCARfan, Cuz & Gen Neyland——Don’t be “cocky” about the outcome when the ‘Cocks play the Dawgs. The Evil Genius’ teams have won plenty of games that they weren’t supposed to win. I seem to recall the ‘Cocks winning one in Gainesville and then playing the Gators down to the wire in Columbia last season… and the Evil Genius LIKES the Gators.
My free advice: never underestimate a properly motivated Evil Genius.
By gdawginkalamazoo
July 26, 2007 1:53 PM | Link to this
I apologize for staying on the blog topic. Maybe I fell asleep reading the thing, but DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHAT THE COURSE WAS? THE COURSE is mentioned several times in the article but the name of the course was never mentioned.
By gdawginkalamazoo
July 26, 2007 2:05 PM | Link to this
And Lee, please don’t rage against the machine, it won’t change anything.
The football money also goes to pay for a lot of scholarships and programs for other actual “student atheletes”. So it is not all a bad thing. For what 85 football players, 16? basketball players, they help the university as a whole. Out of 28,000 students it is not a big percentage. And a lot of those players do get a degree and graduate. If they don’t they still end up in better positions than they would have if they had not played at the college level.
By justin
July 26, 2007 3:05 PM | Link to this
Carter, the grammar police have a warrant for your arrest, citing poor word usage and sentence fragments, among other things.
I think they’re also charging you with boredom.
By Doc Dawg
July 26, 2007 3:26 PM | Link to this
Got to beat Spurrier and get on a roll. Obviously we can’t lose to teams we shouldn’t lose to like last year. Do that, beat Tennessee and Tech and that meets lowered expectations. Still, we should beat Auburn at home, and coach Richt must find a way to be the Gators. If Stafford matures and the D comes together, we can go far. We should be on the championship radar next year, talent-wise.
By godawg
July 26, 2007 4:34 PM | Link to this
Carter killed the blog…:-(
By uga student
July 26, 2007 8:23 PM | Link to this
for once this was actually a good, informative blog. i have been keeping up with the whole Cuff saga and it seems like the NCAA is being stubborned. the same exact course he is taking at CCHS is being accepted at other high schools in Region 1 AAAAA. it makes no sense to accept one but not the other when the course material is the same. he has a 3.0 gpa and had no problem on the qualifying SAT score. he should be enrolled at UGA right now but instead he has to go through all this
By Lee
July 26, 2007 9:16 PM | Link to this
Scooter, nope, not even close. I’m no Jacket fan (although watching Reggie Ball implode could be quite entertaining at times.)
Kalamazoo, these guys are 18-22 year old ADULTS. And Richt is having to babysit them even to the point of having 40 people to check up on them to make sure they attend class.
How pathetic is that?
These guys get catered to all the way through high school and college and never have to grow up. Maybe that explains why Michael Vick is such a car wreck.
One last thing, I was watching a GA game last year when they announced the academic player of the game. I think it was Southerland, who had a 2.8 GPA.
That’s damn embarassing.
By uga student
July 26, 2007 10:42 PM | Link to this
thats just southerland. tra battle is a chemistry major and graduated with a 3.7 gpa…i guess he pretty much knew with his size (5’10 175) he wasnt gonna play safety in the NFL.
By Gen Neyland
July 26, 2007 11:43 PM | Link to this
Atlanta Gator
As the counselee, I deem the advice to be sound…One night in a vision, the skies opened to me and there appeared an apparition of Lewis Grizzard. In his right hand, a scroll. It read, UT beats UF, UGA beats UT and UF beats UGA. When I asked the messenger, ” But what of USC ?”. The reply was, ” You’ll have to ask the devil about that program. “…I punted without further ado, much less to question WHO made the call on UGA-UF…
By bigdave
July 27, 2007 12:15 AM | Link to this
wow, this was worthless. on another note, any blog on this site dealing with vick has been closed. odd. i’m still trying to figure out if i bought a house and let me friends and family live in it and i went and visited and saw all these big pits with blood all around, if i would ask any of these so called friend and family what the heck was going on. i guess vick didn’t. i mean really, why would you, doesn’t everyone have big black painted dog pits in their backyard?
By UGAGwhileIwinthe4thNCin3years
July 27, 2007 10:05 AM | Link to this
Scooter11, Always the UGA fan that makes fun of Tech. When did you graduate from Uga(if you ever attended)? I bet the only money you give UGA is when you buy food at the game after someone gave you tickets. Florida will roll again!!!!!