UGA blog finds new home
Morning all. As I’ve said a couple of times this week, we’re converting this blog over to a WordPress platform and it will be a permanent move the first of next week.
Those of you who are regulars probably know that I’m not what you’d call techno-wizard when it comes to these things. But from what I understand the technology offered in this new format should make the blogging and commenting experience better for all. Of course, I’ll be learning as we go along, too. But I’m hoping to provide more pictures and video and things like that which should bring the blog more to life.
Of course, this blog is nothing without all you guys so I want to heartily invite (read: beg) you to come over to the new site by CLICKING HERE ON THE NEW ADDRESS and save it in your browsers. As of Monday, Feb. 23rd, this will be the permanent home of the UGA blog you so love or, in the case of some of you, love to loathe. If you’d prefer to copy and paste or just memorize, the new address is: http://blogs.ajc.com/uga-sports-blog/.
See at the new place!
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Wednesday, August 1, 2007
NCAA cuts Cuff some slack
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The news spread like wildfire Wednesday afternoon. Vance Cuff, a highly-touted defensive back and Georgia signee from Colquitt County, finally gained his eligibility to play for the Bulldogs).
Seems there was a fairly collosal misunderstanding between Cuff’s high school and the NCAA Clearinghouse over whether a oral/written speech communication class should count as one of the 14 core courses needed for freshman eligibility. The high school filed multiple appeals, only to be denied. Georgia took up the fight and asked for a waiver and reportedly it was granted on Wednesday.
It would have been a shame — or at least a lot of Georgia football fans would have felt that way — if Cuff would’ve had to go to junior college because some high school counselors didn’t know the rules. That goes double given the leniency the NCAA showed some Auburn signees in the wake of a grade-changing scandal this summer.
But be warned: Such controversies will become even more prevalent going forward because, as of Aug. 1, 2008, prospects will have to have successfully passed 16 core courses to gain freshman eligibility.
Cuff is an interesting case because, admittedly, if not for football he never would have considered going to college. He would have simply joined his father in his buisiness of hanging drywall. But because of his athletic ability, Cuff was advised as a 10th grader that a scholarship was a possibility and he set about taking college-prep classes.
My question is, your obvious Georgia bias aside, does anybody have a problem with Cuff getting the nod from the NCAA? Clearly, if not for his football-playing ability, he would never have been admitted into UGA. Anybody outraged as more and more better-prepared applicants are turned down? On the other hand, Cuff would have never considered college if not for football and, whatever happens during his career, he should exit college a much more educated person that he would have been otherwise. What about the NCAA’s role in all this? Shouldn’t a university be able to educate anyone it pleases?
Not invoking an opinion here. Just posing the questions.
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