Comments on: Basketball: Gutierrez, Kamp and who? are named to Pac-10 All-Academic team?

By: discdude

discdude — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:22:16 +0000

No, not a Furd, I am True Blue to the core. In fact, I was born with no red blood in my body, even when I bleed, I bleed blue. But the whining from my fellow Bears is not becoming…have fun.

By: milo

milo — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:35:40 +0000

Oh my…there’s Furders here. TAKE OFF THAT RED SHIRT YOU ROBBER BARON TURD BALLS!

By: discdude

discdude — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:19:48 +0000

And Furd haters…jump off a cliff already with the academic superiority thing, you look like idiots and whiners. Trotter and Owens are on there. Kamp and Gutierrez are on there. End of story.

By: discdude

discdude — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:17:07 +0000

Uh Huh! wasn’t talking about Kamp and Gutierrez, he was talking about Murphy and Fearn. And he wasn’t denigrating the academic team at all, he was noting what is obvious: there aren’t enough 3.0 qualifiers. If there were more 3.0 and above qualifiers, Murphy and Fearn wouldn’t have been on the list. But since they had to find 10, they are on the list and the first and second teams are sorted by GPA. Click the link JF provided above, you’ll see it. If that’s not the full story (i.e. there were more than 10), then shame on the P10 office. They should really have the first team for the starters (or heavy minute players) and the second team filled with the rest. The top spots should be reserved for Lockett, Owens, Kamp and Gutierrez.

And for Kamp and Gutierrez, a hearty Go Bears! Impressive.

By: rollonubears

rollonubears — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:13:53 +0000

Cal has the easy A list, too. At least, they did in 1999. Nutri Sci 10 was on it, along with Sociology 3. Just sayin’.

By: milo

milo — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:39:23 +0000

I think it’s fair to add, getting a 3.0 at Cal is more difficult then just about every other schools in the Pac-10. UCLA would also be tough given the same general rules…but Cal is a tougher row.

re: Stanfurd…they have the Easy A List and are soft on their students

By: dailycal02

dailycal02 — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:43:12 +0000

Uh yeah, I’d say the primary take-away here is Go Harper and (especially) Jorge. Love seeing Cal athletes able to achieve both on-court/field success and academics, very impressed.

By: jeh

jeh — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:38:09 +0000

Re: Uh Huh!’s shots at the all-academic basketball team members

Think about it. As a varsity player, you are involved with team activities, on an almost daily basis, from October into March, 5+ months out of the academic year of what, 9 months. You take frequent flights to away games that have you on the move and away from classes.

In order even to pass at a school such as Cal (and probably all the rest of the Pac-10 schools), at the same time you have to be disciplined sufficiently to do successfully full time undergraduate work.

Rather than to demean the varsity basketball players for taking this challenge and succeeding with it, as the ones who made the all academics obviously have done, we all should be tipping our hats to them. Particularly the ones who played major minutes for their teams, in itself a pretty exhausting achievement.

By: Yoda

Yoda — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:59:07 +0000

IT says nothing more than that Pac-10 academics are like other conference academics IF you are correctt.

I keep reading that all Stanford players are at the genius level. We all know they inflate grades like crazy. Why isn’t the entire team on this list?

By: Uh Huh!

Uh Huh! — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:15:38 +0000

That tells me that there they included EVERYONE on a basketball roster, and that there simply aren’t hardly any candidates that qualify with a 3.0 GPA. If there were 30 guys with 3.0 GPA’s, I imagine these two guys would have been bumped off the list for not meeting the significant qualification. But they needed all the warm bodied 3.0 GPA’s they could get. What does that say about Pac10 basketball academics?