Yesterday there was a post on The Fort which claimed UM's high admission standards were responsible for the the football teams performance problems. This post garnered a high volume of responses, most of which agreed with statement. I was confused by this post for several reasons.
1. I did not realize that when UM was founded n 1817----20 years before Michigan became a State in the United States (1837)---that a major goal of the University was to have a powerhouse football team.
2. Even though UM is a top world wide academic institution----tied with the University of Virginia as the best public University in the United States---all those 99% of UM graduates, since 1817, must hang their heads in shame because the football team isn't doing well. (Poor Jonas Salk, a UM man who found the cure to rid humanity of Polio, no football, no achievement.)
3. UM's high admission standards are a definite threat to UM's athletic teams. Wait a minute---across the board UM's athletic teams, except for football, are having or had a really good year.
4. "We" must get rid of the faculty members who want high admission standards---or get the UM Regents to lower the admission standards---then we can be like Alabama, Clemson, OSU.
5. Now if you believe all this crap about UM's admission standards being to high---STOP reading this post now!!!
Just in the past few days, the Washington Post, had a front page story about Harvard University utilizing its high admission standards to DECREASE their enrollment. They had over 57, 000 applicants, accepting a little over a thousand. They just want a certain type of student body. In the same article, The University of Michigan was lauded for being one of the nations top Universities, which has maintained its high admission standards and has INCREASED their yearly enrollment over the past few years. The mission being accept as many of the applicants, who meet the standards, as the UM facility can handle., Good students should have access to a good education, if possible.
6. So if the UM, with it's high admission standards is INCREASING enrollment, when possible, what does that say about those "great" football transfer player's grades and credits that cannot be accepted? Perhaps they can compete on the football field but cannot or do not want to compete in the classroom.
1. I did not realize that when UM was founded n 1817----20 years before Michigan became a State in the United States (1837)---that a major goal of the University was to have a powerhouse football team.
2. Even though UM is a top world wide academic institution----tied with the University of Virginia as the best public University in the United States---all those 99% of UM graduates, since 1817, must hang their heads in shame because the football team isn't doing well. (Poor Jonas Salk, a UM man who found the cure to rid humanity of Polio, no football, no achievement.)
3. UM's high admission standards are a definite threat to UM's athletic teams. Wait a minute---across the board UM's athletic teams, except for football, are having or had a really good year.
4. "We" must get rid of the faculty members who want high admission standards---or get the UM Regents to lower the admission standards---then we can be like Alabama, Clemson, OSU.
5. Now if you believe all this crap about UM's admission standards being to high---STOP reading this post now!!!
Just in the past few days, the Washington Post, had a front page story about Harvard University utilizing its high admission standards to DECREASE their enrollment. They had over 57, 000 applicants, accepting a little over a thousand. They just want a certain type of student body. In the same article, The University of Michigan was lauded for being one of the nations top Universities, which has maintained its high admission standards and has INCREASED their yearly enrollment over the past few years. The mission being accept as many of the applicants, who meet the standards, as the UM facility can handle., Good students should have access to a good education, if possible.
6. So if the UM, with it's high admission standards is INCREASING enrollment, when possible, what does that say about those "great" football transfer player's grades and credits that cannot be accepted? Perhaps they can compete on the football field but cannot or do not want to compete in the classroom.
