UK Foootball -National Championship

[QUOTE=MsgMills;466976]Ok U of L fans...I told you I wasn't makin stuff up..Here's the [B]PROOF, direct from the C-J.......[/B] Not just 1 player with a 0.00 gpa, but 6 player's total... Article ran in C-J on Aug. 27, 2001

Another reason why U of L will never get into a better Conference than the Big East or another Mid Major Conference when the Big East goes away.....


Cards' grades improving
Strong's first fix: boosting GPA
University of Louisville coach Charlie Strong vowed his football program would never again lose scholarships because of a low academic progress rate score.
The Cardinals lost three scholarships when the APR was released in June, but Strong pointed out to the sold-out crowd at the team's kickoff luncheon Tuesday that they were already progressing.
Strong, who was hired in December 2009, said that in the fall semester before his arrival 52 players on the team had below a 2.0 grade-point average, including "six players who didn't pass a class. Six players had 0.00."
He learned of the grade problems en route to his first team meeting with the Cards. It's what led to his now legendary rant. The players had planned to give Strong a standing ovation in what they thought would be an easy introduction.
"When I hit the door there was no standing ovation," he said. "They were going to hear what I had to say, and it wasn't very pretty. I told them that never again would we have below a 2.5 team semester GPA. That will never again happen."
The APR monitors a four-year span of retention and eligibility of players. The numbers released in June covered the fall semester in 2006 to the 2010 spring semester. U ofL's average in that span was 908, including an 869 for the 2009-10 academic year.
In the first semester after Strong took over, he said, the team had a 2.7 GPA overall, including 40 players who had above a 3.0 in the spring of 2010.
"In the fall a lot of times you slip because guys are playing football - they think they don't have to go to class," Strong said. "And I said to them again, 'We will never slip,' and in the (2010 fall) semester we had a 2.5 and we actually had 11 on the Dean's List....And this past spring our players had a 2.65, so the players are moving forward."
Strong pointed out that senior defensive end Greg Scruggs was one of the six players who had a 0.0 GPA in the fall 2009 semester. Then he added that Scruggs became more disciplined academically and will graduate in December.
"Show me a football team with good grades, and I'll show you a good football team," he said. "Show me a football team with bad grades, I'm going to show you a bad football team."
C.L. Brown can be reached at (502) 582-4044.[/QUOTE]

Good find Clyde, I was wrong then. I have never heard of a player getting a 0.00 much less six of them. Guess more proof that ole Klownthorpe was all about doing it the right way!

I WAS WRONG AND CLYDE WAS RIGHT! (Man that hurts to write!):D

Btw I am prettu sure your date is wrong at the top, I doubt it was in August of 2001.

[QUOTE=mhall;466980]Poor ole Pitt was just ''BAD'' enough to send your Kittens to the house last year, LMAO.....

As you say........Game SET MATCH[/QUOTE]

To continue with TRADITION Louisville needs another Big East school to do what it cant, BEAT KENTUCKY. How sad is it when a school has to rely on an entire conference to beat 1 little school from Lexington

Strong says "they are making progress". Well I hope so because unless Louisville invented some sort of new math, it is pretty hard to not progress from 0.00. Funny how every single Louisville fan here had Selective Memory in that nobody remember 6 kids with the exact same GPA that I have from Louisville. It took Clyde to point out the obvious, boy that must STING

[QUOTE=elnutsmalljaws;466986]To continue with TRADITION Louisville needs another Big East school to do what it cant, BEAT KENTUCKY. How sad is it when a school has to rely on an entire conference to beat 1 little school from Lexington[/QUOTE]

We did beat you this year didn't need help.....in your house to.......

Game set match..............AGAIN

[QUOTE=elnutsmalljaws;466990]Strong says "they are making progress". Well I hope so because [U][I][B]unless Louisville invented some sort of new math,[/B][/I][/U] it is pretty hard to not progress from 0.00. Funny how every single Louisville fan here had Selective Memory in that nobody remember 6 kids with the exact same GPA that I have from Louisville. It took Clyde to point out the obvious, boy that must STING[/QUOTE]

They didn't invent, Eric Bledsoe did. It is where you fail algebra 2 but then pass algebra 3 and go back and make up your grade in Algebra 2. It evidently happens all the time in Alabama Public Schools.

[QUOTE=Tim_T;467001]They didn't invent, Eric Bledsoe did. It is where you fail algebra 2 but then pass algebra 3 and go back and make up your grade in Algebra 2. It evidently happens all the time in Alabama Public Schools.[/QUOTE]

I saw him interviewed one time, then Mitch Barnyard got with the Slick one and said never again. The boy was a good basketball player, but OMG he couldn't even speak the English language. It sounded like the stuff I say to my wife when she is driving me home from the bar after about 20 beers...

[QUOTE=Tim_T;466984]Good find Clyde, I was wrong then. I have never heard of a player getting a 0.00 much less six of them. Guess more proof that ole Klownthorpe was all about doing it the right way!

I WAS WRONG AND CLYDE WAS RIGHT! (Man that hurts to write!):D

Btw I am prettu sure your date is wrong at the top, I doubt it was in August of 2001.[/QUOTE]


Yes the date was 2011, hit too many zero's....

anyone who don't believe the article is legit..i will send you the email i recieved from the C-J. BTW...it's not bs as some of you stated...this my friends is the facts....

[QUOTE=MsgMills;467014]Yes the date was 2011, hit too many zero's....

anyone who don't believe the article is legit..i will send you the email i recieved from the C-J. BTW...it's not bs as some of you stated...this my friends is the facts....[/QUOTE]

I don't believe anything that liberal rag prints, lol.

[QUOTE=elnutsmalljaws;466878]Game, Set and Match, Yes Kentucky beats Louisville in Tennis as well. Kentucky made it to this years Elite 8 in Mens Tennis. Who did they beat in Round 2 of the tournament to send them packing back to LOUISVILLE? You figured it out

Maybe Louisville wins at Backgammon or Chess, well lets not get too crazy how about Chutes and Ladders or Go Fish is more like it.[/QUOTE]

Hahahahahahahahaha.

And I don't care for UK or UL............But since my team has been the whipping child to BOTH for a while.....I will just leave it at that........

Later,

Geo

[QUOTE=mhall;466992]We did beat you this year didn't need help.....in your house to.......

Game set match..............AGAIN[/QUOTE]

After a good old fashion spanking that was put on you the last 4 years in a row we got tired of carrying the Governor's Cup around. Got to show a little mercy on the weak and brainless from time to time or else they won't come and play. But you did AGREE with me on the topic

[QUOTE=artcarney_agr;466928]It's a shame John Wall didn't jump off a cliff....it would have been fun watching all of you hilljack UK fans do the same thing.......the state of Kentucky would have a higher IQ because of it.[/QUOTE]

You do realize UL is one of the lowest rated BCS schools in academics don't you? The state would have a higher educational rating if UL was given to the state of Indiana along with ignorance such as your post.
My Lord it's hilarious hearing you idiots,one day the SEC *****,then the Big Least falls apart and UL Fans are hoping the SEC will take them in,no such luck,UL is below SEC academic standards.

[QUOTE=elnutsmalljaws;467022]we got tired of carrying the Governor's Cup around. [/QUOTE]

I see the BS fountain is spewing as usual today. Let me guess, next you'll say that UK invented the question mark...