Take the Money and Run

That's the message to Coach K over at MSNBC - link here. They even mention the difficulty in walking the tightrope with attracting high school recruits and site Coach Hewitt with J.Jack:

Look at what Paul Hewitt endured at Georgia Tech to get a point guard like Jarrett Jack. Hewitt purposely did not recruit a point guard one year to make sure Jack knew the spot was all his if he picked Tech over Michigan.

What a tightrope that is to walk. What if Jack had not picked Tech?

Hey, speaking of Dookies, check out this article pointing out the test scores of Duke's hoops team versus the rest of the student body.

At Duke, the average SAT score for incoming freshmen is in the 1460range. This means that to be considered for admittance, a candidate would seemingly need to score at a similar level to that standard. Since a perfect score is 1600, this SAT score makes Duke University one of the more selective in the country.

Last year, Duke won this NCAA basketball tournament for the third time since 1991. Many saw this achievement as truly special, almost as if a Harvard or Yale had accomplished as much on the basketball court as they do traditionally in the classroom.

But recent research has shown that the members of the Duke basketball team do not approach the academic status of their collegiate peers. The basketball team's average SAT score of 960 falls far below the 1460 score mentioned earlier.

Yes, even at Duke, individuals with athletic prowess get admitted while numerous other students with much higher academic credentials get turned away.

Now, I don't really have a big problem with this. Stanford is the same way. Stanford is hard to get into, but not for the most talented athletes, as long as they can handle the coursework. For GT it is slightly different imo, because maintaining your status and the coursework is where things are hard at GT. As I've said before, Stanford is hard to get in, GT is hard to get out.