Beanie Wells doesnt respect LSU Defense

Chris Wells is first team Academic All Big Ten... and we know how much better the Big Ten is than the SEC academically.

 

Yup...that Michigan university is pretty good academically

 

If you want to pick a school in the Big 10...that's probably not the one to go with. Their football standards may seem a little shady, but UM has a $5 billion dollar endowment and is ranked the #25 university nationally by US News...LSU is not ranked.

I feed dirty for typing that.


To the thread topic, Wells is plenty smart to respect LSU's defense, and he didn't indicate any lack of respect in that article.

 

Color me shocked. I expected the academic argument to start days ago. You have to love it when a football thread and the "smack" that tends to go with it turns to remarks about academic status. Geez! :rolleye33:

Read between the lines...

 

Sorry to my Tiger Forum friends who really don't like my posts too much but this Big Ten homer needs to be put in his place. The following is from an article I wrote on my website y'all hate me to mention and I won't. The article is from the "Elitist schools and their so-called dominance":

How about the elitist attitude of the Big Ten commissioner Jim Delaney? This is what he wrote as a defense for the Big Ten’s inability to keep up with the SEC in recruiting: “I wish we had (seven) teams among the top 10 recruiting classes every year, but winning our way requires some discipline and restraint with the recruitment process," Delany wrote. He went on to say, “Not every athlete fits athletically, academically or socially at every university. Fortunately, we have been able to balance our athletic and academic mission so that we can compete successfully and keep faith with our academic standards." In other words, this elitist leader thinks that the SEC lowers its academic and social standards for a competitive advantage. Hey, Mr. elitist Delany and elitist friends, according to the NCAA's Academic Progress Rate, the SEC's average football score is 941.7, which is better than the Big Ten score of 931.2. The national average is 929, a number that the majority of the Big Ten (six teams) scored below. Only three of SEC's teams were under. And the socially acceptable recruit and football star Maurice Clarett? I guess he is your poster boy for the social standard of recruiting in the Big Ten, huh Delany?

This info was quoted in Feb 2007

So Big Ten homers please leave the superior academic talk for a different conference. Facts prove the SEC Football teams are superior to Big Ten academically...nuff said!

 

Using one recruit as an example is silly. For every Maurice Clarett one can name 10 others from SEC AND Big Ten schools that have become criminals. There's a certain former LSU player that comes to mind quickly so don't play high and mighty on this one.

There are some recruiting practices by SEC schools that aren't allowed in the Big Ten. It's a difference in recruiting philosophy. I'm not saying the SEC is breaking rules, because they aren't. They simply allow a practice that the Big Ten disallows that falls well within NCAA guidelines. This practice is the reason why the SEC has 44 recruits from last years class who still haven't attended a class at the university that offered while the Big Ten has 4.

 

What is this practice you are referring to? Sign and place?

 

Yep, that's it. The Big Ten does not allow it.

Like I said, nothing against it but it can be a disadvantage.

 

The only thing that would change would be the rankings according to sites like Rivals, Scout, etc. and it some cases where they might sign when they graduate from JUCO. Quite frankly, the MS JUCO system is almost a graveyard when it comes to a lot of these players. The way the SEC has it set up is these players have to graduate within two years from the JUCO or they won't be eligible for SEC play.

One thing you may not be aware of is the Big East and the ACC has lower academic standards than the SEC. If this conversation had to do with academic superiority between the Big 10 and either of those two conferences I would agree with you. Here, as aptly evidenced by an earlier post about the APR, the schools in the SEC are doing a better job of graduating players than a lot of other schools around the NCAA have been.

I suspect, OSU has courses in place that allow players to maintain eligibility much like every other school does in the NCAA. HOWEVER, I will not deny that there have been issues with a few of the SEC schools when it comes to academics.

It is somewhat ironic that FSU has players ineligible for their bowl game due to not making grades and their academic standards are lower than a lot of schools....but, that is a different thread in and of itself.

 

Point of my post was the academics angle, but your Big Ten commish makes excuses on why the Big Ten can't keep up with the SEC in recruiting since the Big Ten has higher standards academically and socially than the SEC. That's hogwash! I used Clarett as an example for my article because Bucknut-cases still love him only because he helped you win a National Title even though he is in fact a player who by Delany's standards would not have been recruited by any Big Ten school.

Bottom line is that any Big Ten homer that comes here to preach a so-called superiority when it comes to academics need to get their facts straight.

The facts are:

SEC's average football score is 941.7, which is better than the Big Ten score of 931.2. The national average is 929, a number that the majority of the Big Ten (six teams) scored below. Only three of SEC's teams were under.

As quoted from 2006 results from the NCAA.