BU Announces Academic Success

[tornado]

http://www.bradleybraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=204871789

102 of the total 175 BU student athletes made at least a 3.0 and made the HONOR ROLL this past semester!
27 had perfect 4.0's (including one basketball player)....

[Bradleyguy10]

Mr. Woods congratulations. In health science also....impressive.

[BradleyBrave]

Ok, great. I hope Glasser and Cross both saw this and quit yapping about academics and start talking seriously about conference titles.

[SFP]

Schools with a high degree of academic success impress me more then schools with NCAA sports achievements. When you can do both, now that is where the goal should be. There are a few schools out there that have had both like Stanford, UC Berkeley and Duke. I'm all for developing national scholars over professional athletes but I believe we can strive to do both.

[Dallas Brave]

http://www.bradleybraves.com/ViewArt...CLID=204871789

102 of the total 175 BU student athletes made at least a 3.0 and made the HONOR ROLL this past semester!
27 had perfect 4.0's (including one basketball player)....

Very impressive. Congratulations to the the players and Athletic Dept.

[BradleyBrave]

Schools with a high degree of academic success impress me more then schools with NCAA sports achievements. When you can do both, now that is where the goal should be. There are a few schools out there that have had both like Stanford, UC Berkeley and Duke. I'm all for developing national scholars over professional athletes but I believe we can strive to do both.

Well why don't we just rename this the Bradley business and engineering board? Face it - None of us would be on here chirping if it wasn't for some degree of success the athletic department (primarily the men's basketball program) has had. We have always done great as far as academics go, and we have also won on a much more consistent basis than we are now. Why not make winning consistently, something we've done in the past, the goal instead of something that we're already doing?

[ER3]

Schools with a high degree of academic success impress me more then schools with NCAA sports achievements. When you can do both, now that is where the goal should be. There are a few schools out there that have had both like Stanford, UC Berkeley and Duke. I'm all for developing national scholars over professional athletes but I believe we can strive to do both.

I could care less about 'developing national scholars'...if that is our #1 priority, then BU might as well become a D-III athletic program...
It's great if the athletes have some success in the classroom to help them in their future...but I want wins, Valley titles, NCAA appearances, etc. from my basketball team, first and foremost...
Give me the kid with the killer crossover over the kid with the killer ACT score every day of the week...

[SFP]

ER3 You should have gone to a big sponsored state school for that. I hope that BU is always 1st about scholastic endeavor. I also want wins but I believe they do not need to be exclusive. I pointed out a few schools that seem to have the recipe. I guarantee you that BU's ability to rank in as a top regional school in the mid-west does more for the quality of life for the mass majority of graduates then if BU goes to the NCAA a few times a decade. Let's take two extreme cases. I'd take a degree from University of Chicago over a degree from U of KY. If I was going to be a professional basketball player then that would be different story. The real world business owner does not give a rat's @ss about NCAA feel goods you have had. That is how I feel and academic achievements is one way I measure BU overall. Basketball is only a very small part. If our Prez can bring BU to another level in the academic world, well then she is doing her job. Again Nobel prize winner from BU or NCAA championship. I know what I'd prefer.

[AZ BU Fan]

ER3 You should have gone to a big sponsored state school for that. I hope that BU is always 1st about scholastic endeavor. I also want wins but I believe they do not need to be exclusive. I pointed out a few schools that seem to have the recipe. I guarantee you that BU's ability to rank in as a top regional school in the mid-west does more for the quality of life for the mass majority of graduates then if BU goes to the NCAA a few times a decade. Let's take two extreme cases. I'd take a degree from University of Chicago over a degree from U of KY. If I was going to be a professional basketball player then that would be different story. The real world business owner does not give a rat's @ss about NCAA feel goods you have had. That is how I feel and academic achievements is one way I measure BU overall. Basketball is only a very small part. If our Prez can bring BU to another level in the academic world, well then she is doing her job. Again Nobel prize winner from BU or NCAA championship. I know what I'd prefer.

Yada Yada Yada...I am sure you were thinking about SAT's and GPA's when BU was playing in the NCAA tournament in 06.

No one is saying they are against BU as an institution achieving great success in the classroom. Great that the kids are getting an education.

What we are saying is to not let academic success be an excuse for all the BU athletic programs not being successful.

I didin't see anyone in the BU crowd at Carver waving signs and chanting "GPA!", "GPA!", "GPA!" when they lost to SIU at home earlier this year, or when BU is bounced out of MVC Tournaments in their opening games.

Let me ask you what the GPA's and graduation rates were for BU MBB team in the 80's and 90's when they were very successful? No one remembers. But they do remember, with pride I might add, how good the BU teams were then.

[Dallas Brave]

People, especially you non-academic ones, every thread regardless of subject line does not need to be turned into a rant on winning basketball games.

How about just letting this thread be what it is ... an acknowledgement of the athletes' academic success. Use one of the other numerous threads on the basketball team to vent your W/L frustration.

[BradleyBrave]

People, especially you non-academic ones, every thread regardless of subject line does not need to be turned into a rant on winning basketball games.

How about just letting this thread be what it is ... an acknowledgement of the athletes' academic success. Use one of the other numerous threads on the basketball team to vent your W/L frustration.

Maybe if BU won like they have over the past 50 years people like me wouldn't have to hijack other threads complaining about it.

[AZ BU Fan]

People, especially you non-academic ones, every thread regardless of subject line does not need to be turned into a rant on winning basketball games.

How about just letting this thread be what it is ... an acknowledgement of the athletes' academic success. Use one of the other numerous threads on the basketball team to vent your W/L frustration.

Does my Iowa State BSIE degree, and MBA, qualify me as an "academic one"?

When "academic ones" stop using acknowledgement of athletes' academic success as a platform to then also comment this matters more, or is better than athletic achievement, I will shut up.

Report their academic achievement if you want, but don't then get on your soapbox and declare this is better than athletic success and everyone on a sports forum stop their desire for athletic success at BU

[Dallas Brave]

Report their academic achievement if you want, but don't then get on your soapbox and declare this is better than athletic success and everyone on a sports forum stop their desire for athletic success at BU

What on earth are you rambling about???? Start using your education.

[ER3]

People, especially you non-academic ones, every thread regardless of subject line does not need to be turned into a rant on winning basketball games.

How about just letting this thread be what it is ... an acknowledgement of the athletes' academic success. Use one of the other numerous threads on the basketball team to vent your W/L frustration.

Who the hell are you trying to label as being a 'non-academic one' within this particular conversation? Typical laughable, self-important Bradley graduate...too funny.

[amckillip]

I gotta agree with Dallas here. Let's face it, 99.9% of BU players are playing pro-sports. I love the BU is focused on their academic success. If all you care about is an organization that's focused on winning basketball games, go watch the NBA. College is about way more than sports, and I hope these players don't lose sight of that. People can throw around degrees, call each other academic or not; but I'll tell you what, in 2 years, the fact Sam has kept a good GPA, will mean way more than whether or not he beat SIU at home this year.