LSU CB Morris Claiborne scores a 4 on the Wonderlic

[BoutThemDawgs]

Maybe that's why he only stayed for 3 years. Athletes are treated differently at pretty much every school. If you don't think it happens at Tech too then you are delusional.

I think what they are trying to say is that they think it happens to a lesser degree here, not that it doesn't happen at all. On a side note I got a 33 on the online wonderlic test.

[longdawgview]

All I hear about this kid is positive. He seems like a high character guy who has done things right in college. A poor score on the worthless Wunderlik is not enough to assume he cheated his way through LSU.

I work down the street from Fairpark...If MC figured out a way to do better for himself, I think that's good. It's a ROUGH area.

This really has nothing do with Claiborne, we all wish him the best. But time and time again LSU players make incredibly low scores but pass the ACT and classes. It's not Claiborne fault LSU instructed someone to sit in for him on the ACT. They probably told him all progams do this kinda of thing.

[boxerdog]

In case y'all forgot, Claiborne was on the verge of signing with LaTech until LSU swooped in and got him late. We offered before they did.

[FishingBack]

Do we even know if he tried to answer correctly?

[TN Dawg 13]

I can see someone just choking and stressing out if one or two of the harder questions were first since it is a timed event whether or not he has a learning ability. I know I hate and stress taking tests like that. Also can see what FishingBack says and he may not have really cared.

[HounDoggy1]

Dawg06 said,
"He probably had somebody take it for him. It was pretty common and pretty easy to do. Many kids turned taking the ACT for others into a business. I think the ACT is just now starting to crack down on it.

He probably had people taking his tests for him at LSU as well. From what I've heard, that's common and easy to do as well."

Just like it was when I was in school. Be careful before throwing stones, my friend. If the truth be known, our graduation rates and eligibility forms "back in the day" would have to have had some embarrassing adjustments.

I remember one of my profs joking with the class that our teams were not recruiting athletes from healthy families - because by the time they figured out that they should not be sceduling his class iit was too late. In the previous quarter, seven students from different sports "did not do well" and requested special attention because they had lost bothers, sisters, moms, dads and grandparents just prior to final exams. At the time, each sport handled their own communication with profs and had no idea what the others' excuses were and, too, they did not have a clue as to the abilitiy of a STATISTICS prof to compute simple odds. LOL!

BTW, in the following quarter, no athletes were registered in any of his classes.

So, before casting stones......

[DAWG DUDE]

Same way they stay in school here...

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[CYFAIRDAWG]

Well one of my daughters was an athetic tudor and the other works at the tudoring center and schedules things at LSU and while some of the athletes are never going to be considered a rhodes scholar, I doubt there is any wholesale cheating going on. Ironically LSU ranks second in the SEC in graduation rates behind Vandy so while its easy to throw darts at them, I doubt we fully understand the amount of time and resources they dedicate to ensure their athletes are in class and are passing. I think most of the high profile programs are under such scrutinity they have figured out how to keep folks passing without having to cheat as in the old days when a Dexter Manley can graduate from OSU and be illiterate.

[Dwayne From Minden]

How were they at "windsoring"....

[70TECHGRAD]

Same here but you have to admit that is bizarre. And how did the kid stay in school at lsoo?

He took bowling and basket weaving.

[HounDoggy1]

How were they at "windsoring"....

Don't know about windsoring, but probably an academic all-american at "snoring"

[Cool Hand Clyde]

. Ironically LSU ranks second in the SEC in graduation rates behind Vandy so while its easy to throw darts at them.

Maybe gymnastics, but not football:

Vanderbilt	91%
Mississippi	69%
Florida	69%
Alabama	67%
Mississippi St.	63%
South Carolina	60%
LSU	60%
Auburn	59%
Georgia	57%
Kentucky	55%
Tennessee	52%
Arkansas	52%

http://stanford.scout.com/2/952555.html

[CYFAIRDAWG]

Check your stats. The official is as follows:

The scores are based on incoming classes from 2001-2002 through 2004-2005.
Okay, so, here’s how the SEC programs’ graduation rates came in for football only:
Vanderbilt: 86
LSU: 77
Florida: 76
Alabama: 69
Georgia: 65
Auburn: 63
Mississippi State: 62
Kentucky: 61
Tennessee: 61
Arkansas: 56
Ole Miss: 54
*South Carolina: 39

I heard the SEC commisioner congratulate the team on their 2nd place finish in graduation during his presentation at the spring game.

[dhussdawg]

Check your stats. The official is as follows:

The scores are based on incoming classes from 2001-2002 through 2004-2005.
Okay, so, here’s how the SEC programs’ graduation rates came in for football only:
Vanderbilt: 86
LSU: 77
Florida: 76
Alabama: 69
Georgia: 65
Auburn: 63
Mississippi State: 62
Kentucky: 61
Tennessee: 61
Arkansas: 56
Ole Miss: 54
*South Carolina: 39

I heard the SEC commisioner congratulate the team on their 2nd place finish in graduation during his presentation at the spring game.

No one cares corndog. Go troll somewhere else.

[BleauxMe]

No one cares corndog. Go troll somewhere else.

Apparently Cool Hand Clyde does...