Gravesande ineligible for Pizza Bowl

Academics. Johnson and Barberrette to return punts. At this point, I'd have Ricardo return punts.

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I don't think were going to have to worry about WMU punting

by Strawmy on Dec 24, 2011 10:14 PM EST reply actions 1 recs

Coz they are gonna score every time?

by charlespig on Dec 24, 2011 11:42 PM EST up reply actions

So much for DH’s rants on how well he has the team improving their academics. Lack of off the field responsibility. DH did mention in previous article that more academic issues would arise in the future.

If our two law breaking defensemen would have been suspended for the bowl, we would be down ~27% of players due to injury, academic, or law issues. (This assumes each was going to be a starter).

What a joke.

by drboiler on Dec 25, 2011 10:46 AM EST reply actions

how

Does a 5th year sr not pass his classes? I don’t get it those should be the ones you want to pass the most. Get it done and have a degree

Dosvidaniya, bitches! BTFU!

by BoilerUpAT on Dec 25, 2011 6:47 PM EST via mobile reply actions

Since I don’t believe Gravesande ‘gray shirted,’ his redshirt season was still a full academic year.

So there’s a good chance he could actually be taking graduate classes, as when players redshirt they usually end up graduating after their junior year but still have a year of athletic eligibility. They can’t, however, just play football and not take classes so they enroll in a graduate program. This is also the reason there’s the NCAA loophole of a player not having to sit out a year if they want to transfer to another school that offers a grad program their current school doesn’t, which is how Russel Wilson was immediately eligible to transfer and play at Wisconsin and how Dayne Cist is going to be able to transfer out to either Wisconsin/Kansas/etc and be able to play in 2012.

http://theboilermaker.blogspot.com/

by Bryan Steedman on Dec 27, 2011 12:05 AM EST up reply actions

Also

It’s why on most teams you’ll see a wide variety of fourth year juniors that had redshirtted at one point not seek out a fifth year of athletic eligibility and just graduate and drop the final year remaining (normally seen with backups that don’t necessarily play much at all so they just take their degree and enter the job market instead)

http://theboilermaker.blogspot.com/

by Bryan Steedman on Dec 27, 2011 12:07 AM EST up reply actions

we would be down ~27% of players

You mean starters? Excluding the fact that Gravesande doesn’t start (or that Ross is a #3 WR so his starter role is dependent on the formation we run from play to play) what you said was really misleading.

I’m also curious to what the academics have looked like the last few years anyways, dating back to Tiller’s last season we haven’t been to a bowl so none of these academic issues would be publicized much (if at all) without a bowl to play.

http://theboilermaker.blogspot.com/

by Bryan Steedman on Dec 27, 2011 12:08 AM EST reply actions