[Husker] More focus on football?

[RJ Wessel]

On a down side of this, you are Urban Meyer and under the gun that your players are in trouble with the law. If they are not attending class in the fall and you have 20 hours of time with them for practive - that leave 148 hours of trouble waiting to happen. 

I, as a coach, want my kids in class and studying.





---- Scott Lawson <scott71lawson at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> When I read the original article, it seemed to me that the big football schools (like Florida, the school the article is about) will want to have ALL their football players attending classes in the spring and summer sessions so they will do nothing except play football in the fall without attending classes, and all that goes with that. I do not think this is a good idea. And I also think that if this happens at Florida (and it's a big if) the dominoes will fall at every other division I school and you will see football players not having to attend classes in the fall. Although it is not stated in the article, I am almost 100% certain this idea was tossed around by football program supporters at UF.
> 
> And I don't believe the article is talking about a true 'trimester' situation, since in a trimester you would attend all three terms, while in this case you can pick two of the three. Don't think for a second any athletes at major programs will pick their 'in season' as one of their terms either.
> 
> Scott in NY
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 9/27/10, Nick Chevance <nickchevance at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> From: Nick Chevance <nickchevance at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Husker] More focus on football?
> To: "David Strong" <gbrlist at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "list husker" <husker at tssi.com>
> Date: Monday, September 27, 2010, 7:00 PM
> 
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:13 PM, David Strong <gbrlist at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > You're probably right.  The rules are probably based on the expectation of the traditional fall-spring semester system defining what a "full-time" student is.  If that system changes, then the rules will have to be tweaked somehow.
> >
> > Dave
> 
> I guess I'm not seeing the issue here.  If we were talking about a
> normal summer session, which is currently not the same length as the
> fall and spring semesters, then there may be an issue.  But if the
> university goes to a trimester system, all semesters are equal, so you
> would probably be required to attend any two of three semesters in a
> calendar year, with a certain number of hours each semester, to be
> considered a full time student.  My undergraduate school was on the
> quarter session, and the summer session was basically equivalent to
> the other three, so really if there were faculty to teach, you could
> go to school all year round.  In effect though, you only needed to
> complete 3 quarters to be full time.
> 
> My question goes back to the original poster.  Why would Nebraska,
> more than any other school, like a change to make the summer session
> more equivalent?  Why would this be of some advantage to the football
> program (or fall sports in general)?
> 
> Nick
> 
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