[NU Sports] Academic DQ

[Scott Zeller, M.D.]

Oh, joy. We can finally go the the NCAA tournament because all the good
teams get disqualified. There's a feather in our cap.

If all the guys in my high school had vanished overnight, maybe I could
have dated the homecoming queen!

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 5:56 PM, <hakirsch at aol.com> wrote:

> Not sure if many out there have been following the 50 percent rule that
> the NCAA is attempting to phase in.  But it will DQ schools from going to
> the dance if their hoopsters are not on track for a 50 percent graduation
> rate
>
> Right away, one has to figure that will improve our chances to get invited
> to the dance if a bunch of schools get knocked out and thus providing less
> competition .  Some schools may actually be tougher on admitting certain
> kids if they believe they could jeopardize their chances at passing the 50
> percent test. This may allow a school like NU to better compete with those
> teams, when in the past, all we could hope for was an occasional upset
> against them
>
> It used to be when Al Mcguire (Marquette) or Jerry Tarkanian (UNLV) would
> grab several kids a year off the streets in the hope of getting them
> through a year or 2 before dropping or flunking out. Both won national
> titles with extremely low graduation rates
>
> Harry
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