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jimsumner
12-03-2015, 01:28 PM
http://www.theacc.com/news/duke-s-cash-named-winner-of-jim-tatum-award-12-03-2015

Olympic Fan
12-03-2015, 01:34 PM
Add to this that three Duke players just made Academic All-American:

DT AJ Wolf (first team)
DB DeVon Edwards (second team)
PK Ross Martin (second team)

Duke was the only ACC team with a player selected. It's the most selections in Duke history and the first time Duke has had multiple selections since 1959 when Butch Allie and Ed Lyon were honored.

The funny thing is, Duke should have had FOUR selections -- Cash was a shoe-in, except his 3.80 GPA was in graduate level classes and the requirements of the team specify undergraduate GPA.

OldPhiKap
12-03-2015, 01:37 PM
http://www.theacc.com/news/duke-s-cash-named-winner-of-jim-tatum-award-12-03-2015


Add to this that three Duke players just made Academic All-American:

DT AJ Wolf (first team)
DB DeVon Edwards (second team)
PK Ross Martin (second team)

Duke was the only ACC team with a player selected. It's the most selections in Duke history and the first time Duke has had multiple selections since 1959 when Butch Allie and Ed Lyon were honored.

The funny thing is, Duke should have had FOUR selections -- Cash was a shoe-in, except his 3.80 GPA was in graduate level classes and the requirements of the team specify undergraduate GPA.

All of the above are worthy accomplishments, congratulations to each of those young men.

RepoMan
12-03-2015, 02:00 PM
Congrats! With winning four of these in a row, who is in line for us next year?!

Olympic Fan
12-03-2015, 02:11 PM
Congrats! With winning four of these in a row, who is in line for us next year?!

Well, Wolf was a first-team Academic All-American and he's just a junior.

Edwards as second team Academic A-A and he's just a junior.

So I'd say that's two pretty good candidates right there. And no other ACC team had a player make academic All-America, so I'd guess they have to start out as the frontrunners for the 2016 Tatum Award.

BD80
12-03-2015, 05:08 PM
http://www.theacc.com/news/duke-s-cash-named-winner-of-jim-tatum-award-12-03-2015

Next year Tatum (Jayson) will win the Cash award.

sagegrouse
12-03-2015, 06:25 PM
http://www.theacc.com/news/duke-s-cash-named-winner-of-jim-tatum-award-12-03-2015

"Cash" quote:


GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – Duke senior safety Jeremy Cash has been named the recipient of the 2015 Jim Tatum Award, ACC Commissioner John Swofford announced Thursday.

The Tatum Award is given annually in memory of the late Jim Tatum to the top senior student-athlete (in athletic eligibility) among the league's football players. Tatum, a two-time ACC Coach of the Year, coached in the 1950s at both Maryland and North Carolina and believed strongly in the concept of the student-athlete.

Olympic Fan
12-03-2015, 07:17 PM
I don't mean this to diminish the award that Cash just won -- because it does mean recognition of a great student athlete.

But naming the award after Jim Tatum is ... quite frankly, a joke of epic proportions. If there was even an ACC coach (in any sport) who cared less about the academic status of his players, I've yet to hear or read about him. And unlike the deceitful Dean Smith, who preached the importance of academics (even as he was setting up the worst academic fraud scheme in NCAA history), Tatum never even pretended to care about academics or the rules (he openly bought and paid for his players). The story at Maryland was that he gave the school a choice between upgrading the football stadium or using the inadequate funds at hand to upgrade the school's excuse for a library -- and when he school choose the library, he bolted for UNC, where he was welcomed by the Daily Tar Heel, which labeled him, "a parasitic monster of open professionalism."

For an interesting overview of the coach that the ACC choose to epitomize the student-athlete ideal, check out Bob Lee's column in Tatum:

http://bobleesays.com/2011/01/07/the-legend-reality-of-sunny-jim-tatum/

Henderson
12-03-2015, 07:23 PM
And no other ACC team had a player make academic All-America.

No UNC-CH players? That's weird.