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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Georgia Tech-bound Crenshaw makes bold prediction after all-star game
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Jefferson County defensive end Chris Crenshaw likes to think big.
Crenshaw was one of seven Georgia Tech commitments that participated in Monday’s GACA North-South All-Star Football Classic. What was Crenshaw’s opinion of the other members of Tech’s recruiting class?
“I was impressed with all my future teammates,” Crenshaw said Monday evening. “I really think we can take Tech to a national championship.”
The Jackets were represented in the 70th-annual contest by commits Crenshaw, Emanuel County Institute lineman J.C. Lanier, Fitzgerald safety Jemea Thomas, Newnan lineman Raymond Beno, Westside-Macon linebacker Julian Burnett and Flowery Branch defensive ends Izaan Cross and Daniel Drummond.
However, it was Florida commit Greg Reid of Lowndes who grabbed the headlines during this year’s all-star event. The AJC all-classification player of the year returned two punts for touchdowns to give the South a 17-0 victory over the North.
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Florida Gators with biggest SAT gap between football players and students
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Football [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 …
The University of Oklahoma and the University of Florida, whose football teams play Jan. 8 for the national championship, ranked near the bottom in standardized test scores. Florida’s freshman football classes of 2002-04 ranked 50th in average score out of 53 schools for which football SAT averages were available, and Oklahoma’s freshman football classes of 2001-03 ranked 42nd. Florida’s football players ranked last in average high school GPA, at 2.54. The average for all football players in the study was 2.93.
This season is typical. Five of the last seven public universities to win college football’s national championship ranked among the study’s bottom 20 in football SAT scores.
Note: These are excerpts taken from a series of AJC investigative articles written by Mike Knobler. “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.” To read all the articles in full length, please click here. Look in the left column for links to the rest of the series.
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UGA vs. Georgia Tech on football SAT scores
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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.
Note: These are excerpts taken from a series of AJC investigative articles written by Mike Knobler. “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.” To read all the articles in full length, please click here. Look in the left column for links to the rest of the series.
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Two former UGA recruits have success at other schools
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Schools don’t make their minimum [college entrance] requirements public, in part because specific minimums don’t always exist. Instead, admissions decisions occur case by case, using high school GPA, standardized test scores and other, non-numerical factors, such as recommendations from teachers and counselors.
At Georgia, a faculty committee reviews the applications of those recruits who would not be admitted if not for their athletic talent. About 10 to 15 percent of all Bulldogs athletes get admitted through that process, said Nancy McDuff, the university’s associate vice president for admissions and enrollment management.
That committee refers borderline decisions to the president. About 10 percent of athletes get into school that way, McDuff said.
Sometimes, rejections become public knowledge.
Receiver Jamar Bryant twice signed with Georgia but couldn’t get in even after attending Hargrave Military Academy after high school. He went on to lead East Carolina University in receiving last season. Linebacker Jamar Chaney, denied admission to Georgia after questions were raised about his standardized test score, led Mississippi State University in tackles in 2007.
Note: These are excerpts taken from a series of AJC investigative articles written by Mike Knobler. “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.” To read all the articles in full length, please click here. Look in the left column for links to the rest of the series.
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North Atlanta QB is booked solid in Janaury
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If you’re thinking about inviting Jamal Londry-Jackson to a weekend function during the month of January, don’t bother. The North Atlanta quarterback’s schedule is booked solid.
Londry-Jackson has set up all four of his official visits next month: Eastern Kentucky on Jan. 8, Morgan State - a Historically Black College and University in Baltimore - on Jan. 16, Virginia Tech on Jan. 23 and Tennessee State, another HBCU, in Nashville on Jan. 30. All of the schools, with the exception of Virginia Tech, compete in Division I-AA and have scholarship offers on the table for Londry-Jackson.
Though he believes he can compete on the Division I-A level, Londry-Jackson said he is pleased with the seven total offers he has, all from I-AA schools. North Carolina Central, Winston Salem State, Prairie View A&M - all HBCUs - and Southeast Louisiana have offered Londry-Jackson as well.
“Everybody isn’t going to get the opportunity to play on [the I-A] level, but there are some really good programs and schools in I-AA,” said Londry-Jackson, who said he is leaning toward Tennessee State. “They are in the Ohio Valley Conference, which is very competitive. Also, I want to major in sports management and they have a great internship program with the Tennessee Titans.”
As for Virginia Tech, Londry-Jackson said he doesn’t know if an offer is forthcoming or not.
“They said they want me to come up there so we can sit down and talk,” Londry-Jackson said, “so I guess we’ll see.”
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