Jarvis Baxter

[Jewbull]

http://www.scout.com/college/oklahoma/story/1569061-jarvis-baxter-joining-sooners

This is the guy who makes the calls, i just dont get it, we should all be beyond irate.....

[Cubanbull]

The JUCO WR that did not enroll at USF because he didn't qualify academically. Met the academic requirements to walk on at Oklahoma. Imagine that

http://www.scout.com/college/oklahoma/story/1569061-jarvis-baxter-joining-sooners

[Who'sYourData?]

These are student-athletes, this is a university of higher learning.  There have to be limits as to how much you stretch your requirements to allow someone in. 

 

Plenty of deserving students that worked a lot harder on their academics did not get the chance to continue their education at USF.  I'm not going to be upset that one happens to be a football player.  

[Who'sYourData?]

Oklahoma has lower standards.  This is an issue why?

 

Notre Dame has far, far higher standards and they do ok.

[ArmyBull]

This does not sound like a case of lower standards to me, more like a loop hole of sorts:

 

Baxter said USF only allows someone to use nine credit hours in the summer to meet the required GPA. Baxter took more than nine hours but those extra hours couldn’t count for USF but do count for OU. OU allows for more than nine hours in the summer, which is what Baxter needed to reach the required GPA.

 

I do think that USF should review their policy on this.  OU is not Harvard, but I doubt there are any rankings that place USF in a higher academic standing than Oklahoma.  

Edited August 2, 2015 by ArmyBull

[JTrue]

So we should change our policy because a kid needed to take 12! hours over the summer just get his GPA up high enough to reach the absolute minimum to be eligible? That's a full semester of classes his GPA was behind. What the hell has he been doing to prepare for transfer the past two years?

[ArmyBull]

So we should change our policy because a kid needed to take 12! hours over the summer just get his GPA up high enough to reach the absolute minimum to be eligible? That's a full semester of classes his GPA was behind. What the hell has he been doing to prepare for transfer the past two years?

 

No idea what he has been doing but a kid that is taking and passing extra courses does not sound like someone who would slack at the next level.  To me it sounds like a kid that is doing what he can to make up for something that was lacking, not only attempting it but achieving it.  Kudos top him for doing what needs to be done and doing it well enough to achieve his goals.  I suggested reviewing it.  At the minimum there should be exceptions to this 9 hour thing.  To lose a kid to a school like OU because we would not count 1 extra class he took just seems silly.  I imagine this is a rare circumstance.    

[Flowers4Heisman]

Guys, I could be wrong, but it might be a state thing. Check the other public universities in the state. I bet it's the same.

[Apis Bull]

Can we just stop this already?  It is a university.  Some guys will qualify and some won't.  Those are the breaks.

[JupiterBull]

These are student-athletes, this is a university of higher learning.  There have to be limits as to how much you stretch your requirements to allow someone in. 

 

Plenty of deserving students that worked a lot harder on their academics did not get the chance to continue their education at USF.  I'm not going to be upset that one happens to be a football player.  

Right on.  Sometimes folks lose sight of the bigger picture, and the blessings these athletes have.  All that said, some kids who struggle with grades may have caps on IQ or ability...so it's not always that the athlete isn't working hard (not saying you're implying otherwise, just making a general point).