Jarvis Jones/Dre Kirkpatrick

How he couldn't stay eligible here at SC is beyond me. I had a SC player in my history class last semester and there is NO WAY he passed that class.

He turned in our midterm (1 of 2 tests all semester) completely blank, and it was an essay test.
 
BrntO4Life or whatever,

Your post is over the line. You don't name names and post academic results on this forum (or anywhere probably if you are wise). Sorry for being the traffic cop on this, but since you're new, I thought I'd help with my judgement on the matter...
 
I fail to see how it's over the line. I'm simply reporting what I see, much like what other people do.

I will edit it simply to please you, but I'm not going to hide his identity for his sake. The dude doesn't come to class (or not come) with a mask on, so why should it bother me? He's not the only one I can speak this way about either.

EDIT: As for "dummy" majors here at SC, anything in the CAS (Arts & Sciences) is a dummy major.
 
As for "dummy" majors here at SC, anything in the CAS (Arts & Sciences) is a dummy major.
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Ummm...the CAS includes things like Physics-Math-Chemistry-Bio-Statistics, etc. USC does not have the ranking of a Stanford or Princeton in these areas; it is not even up to UT standards. But to call every major in CAS a dummy major is ludicrous.

That said, I'm quite sure that the football team takes very elementary courses. I taught physics at UT in 1976-78, had several football players in my classes and they all made decent grades (I'm quite tough to please). The athletic dept constantly contacted me to find out whether any of them were at risk; when that happened, they arranged extra tutoring, etc.
 
You have a point, I forgot that all of the science was considered part of CAS. With that said, everything not based in math or science in CAS is what I would consider a "dummy" major.

After looking through it though, math/science only accounts for about a quarter (22.8%; 13 of 57) of the majors in CAS.

As for not being up to UT standards, you do realize USC is ranked 27th-nationally by U.S. News & World Report, while UT is 47th. Granted, it's strange for me to try and uplift USC over UT-Austin (I've been a diehard Longhorn fan my whole life, just transferred out here), but USC is a VERY good school.

I will now gracefully bow out of this conversation, as I feel it may get too silly trying to discuss this here.

As for your football players, I am glad you got some of the good ones who did some work. In all my classes so far out here, I haven't seen anything similar.
 
The US News and World Report ranking are very artificial. Some schools even try to up their rank (not saying USC does).

USC is a good university. Texas is world class.
 
What happened to the Jones/kirkpatrick thread?
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I believe he was saying that USC's math/sciences field wasn't as good as UT, which is true. As a whole, the academics of the school are better.
 
Dre Kirkpatrick is announcing tomorrow afternoon, I believe. Looks like we will finish runner-up to Alabama for his services. I think Dre has a young kid and wants to stay as close to home as possible.

As far as Jarvis Jones, who knows? He has kept his intentions pretty much under wraps, but it looks like we are still in it from everything I've read.
 
Kirkpatrick to Bama seems pretty certain. Jones I would guess goes to Florida, USC it sounds like is pushing hard but it has been very quiet from him.
 
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