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Originally Posted by Sorter
That's too bad. Players that are intelligent and able to perform in the classroom as well as on the field are a rare commodity. As such, the development of such athletes should be encouraged. Not only to create better student athletes, increase university prestige, etc. but from a football/coaching perspective, having smarter players generally allows you to be more creative and expand your playbook/philosophies. Working with dumb brutes who can't understand how to properly perform sight adjusts as an example, is a poor route to go down. While not every player is going to be a genius, ensuring that they are working academically also instills/builds discipline and prevents less opportunities for bad things to happen.
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I have nothing against academics I should have elaborated more of what I was trying to say, I'm a college graduate myself and no I don't want dumb athletes that always get into trouble, however I don't feel that has anything to do with improving the football teams play on the field in the present. mizzou is in a very bad situation right now athletically and academics isn't going to change that, in fact Mizzous high academic standards have hurt the athletic program more than its helped it. Face it most of the best talent are dummies because they only know football. How many of their top recruits have had to go to JUCO because they can't hack it academically due to the high standards ala Sheldon Richardson? He was a moron who couldn't keep his yap shut but guess what? He was the best defensive player on the team.