I would have gone to gym just for the jousting.My second semester senior year after I was accepted to Duke was an attendance joke. I think I HAD to attend Gym and lunch. Of course, that was in the late 1500's, IIRC.
Well, I would assume there's a pretty dramatic difference when you tell the HS guidance counselor that you're looking for clearance to graduate early so you can enroll at Duke early. Might gain you some credits, versus leaving school early to be a rodeo clown.for sure. I just wonder what are they teaching in school if you can afford to leave 5-6 months early?
Umm, here in Texas rodeo clowning is serious business. Starting with Fort Worth this month, San Antonio next month, Houston after that and finally a smaller Austin event in March. That's 3 solid months of rodeos and rodeo clowning.versus leaving school early to be a rodeo clown.
A high school diploma or the equivalent is never going to be waived by admissions. So maybe other people won't care, but Duke will.It never occurred to me, personally, to graduate early from anything, and I enjoyed the lazy days of 2nd semester senior year, but if my kid were facing the choice, and my kid happened to be a hyper-motivated football player who (somehow) was being recruited to a D1 school, I’d probably suggest they go to college early even if they didn’t pick up a high school diploma (when you get the next degree, nobody’s going to care whether you finished hs).
JR “still can’t” Reidanyone else notice the festouche eight miles down the road where the unc football GM (being Paid $1.5million/yr) uncorked a beauty of an illiterate tweet responding angrily to assertions that Billy B is having trouble filling out his staff? He insisted the report is both "erronous" and "fabracated."
This led to some nice mockage on Around the Horn last night, making them wonder if unc could not afford any spell check products.
None of the panelists, FWIW, place any credence at all in Bill's vows to stay and be happy at unc. They all said if he could be in the NFL he would be in the NFL. Excellent segment all around.
anyone else notice the festouche eight miles down the road where the unc football GM (being Paid $1.5million/yr) uncorked a beauty of an illiterate tweet responding angrily to assertions that Billy B is having trouble filling out his staff? He insisted the report is both "erronous" and "fabracated."
This led to some nice mockage on Around the Horn last night, making them wonder if unc could not afford any spell check products.
None of the panelists, FWIW, place any credence at all in Bill's vows to stay and be happy at unc. They all said if he could be in the NFL he would be in the NFL. Excellent segment all around.
It was announced just hours ago that Bill has brought in 2 more assistant coaches to UNC. If he is eying a return to the NFL he isn't really acting like it (unless this is an elaborate ploy to get his son the head coaching gig, but it seems like screwing over Carolina weeks after taking the job is not a good way to ensure his son gets treated right by UNC).
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Sources: Belichick adds 2 veteran coaches to staff
Bill Belichick continues to fill out his coaching staff at North Carolina, as longtime NFL special teams coach Mike Priefer and veteran SEC offensive line coach Will Friend are expected to finalize deals, sources told ESPN.www.espn.com
That's a big if. I almost posted this to the portal thread, which is where @JasonEvans's post above is copied from. Belichick isn't acting like he's eyeing a return to the NFL because there is simply no NFL franchise interested in hiring him. We can all act like that's not the case, but it clearly is. And articles stating [without any attribution or evidence] that x franchise has expressed interest in talking to Belichick are about as meaningful as articles stating [again, without any attribution or evidence] that portal transfer player x is getting $y million from z university. The NFL doesn't want him, so he will be on the UNC sidelines next season. Personally, I think this will prove to be a failed experiment in Chapel Hill two to three years down the road, but we will begin to have some data to assess whether or not things are trending in that direction about 10-12 months from now.anyone else notice the festouche eight miles down the road where the unc football GM (being Paid $1.5million/yr) uncorked a beauty of an illiterate tweet responding angrily to assertions that Billy B is having trouble filling out his staff? He insisted the report is both "erronous" and "fabracated."
This led to some nice mockage on Around the Horn last night, making them wonder if unc could not afford any spell check products.
None of the panelists, FWIW, place any credence at all in Bill's vows to stay and be happy at unc. They all said if he could be in the NFL he would be in the NFL. Excellent segment all around.
This is a small issue, but I wonder if it is true that all undergrads come to Duke with a hs diploma.A high school diploma or the equivalent is never going to be waived by admissions. So maybe other people won't care, but Duke will.
I suspect that like many things it is a normal requirement that can be waived in appropriate exceptional circumstances, and those circumstances probably apply only to unusual scholarly savants, not athletic savants. I knew a very gifted fellow who graduated from Harvard Law at 22. It is quite possible that his credentials were irregular.This is a small issue, but I wonder if it is true that all undergrads come to Duke with a hs diploma.
I knew very smart kids who left high school a year early to attend Duke-equivalent colleges; those colleges didn’t seem to care that those kids didn’t finish their 4 years of hs English. And I know people who didn’t get their college degrees before going to med school. All of those people turned out fine.
More recently, when Flagg, Maluach, Proctor, etc, came to Duke a year early, did Duke admissions care whether they were on track to officially graduate from high school within 3 years? Or do they look at grades and test scores and the student and make a decision about whether they can handle the load? The latter evaluation strikes me as far more meaningful than whether they completed all of their school’s requirements within 3 years. But maybe I’m off base and they really care about that hs diploma…
Wait. There's a sports team called the Whirlies?Getting this thread back on topic. Congrats to Bryce Davis on being NDPOY and to the staff for signing him.
Goduke link: https://goduke.com/news/2025/1/15/football-bryce-davis-named-national-defensive-player-of-the-year
Yeah, Greensboro GrimsleyWait. There's a sports team called the Whirlies?
I suspect that like many things it is a normal requirement that can be waived in appropriate exceptional circumstances, and those circumstances probably apply only to unusual scholarly savants, not athletic savants. I knew a very gifted fellow who graduated from Harvard Law at 22. It is quite possible that his credentials were irregular.
I'm not sure what the requirements are these days but, I believe, in the past Duke required people, including recruited athletes, to have a legitimate high school diploma before they could enroll as Duke students. If I remember correctly, this issue came up when Alex Murphy decided to re-classify (and essentially skip his senior year of high school) and come to Duke a year early (At the urging of the Duke coaches and I think he was a year older than his class indicated and should have then been a senior in high school). At the time, he was a student at my high school alma mater (a private school outside Boston) and apparently that school would not let him "jump ahead" and graduate a year early without fulfilling all of the school's normal academic requirements, so Alex left that private school and enrolled in the local public high school in Rhode Island where his parents lived, and that public school then allowed him to "graduate" with a diploma at what was the end of his junior year. He then enrolled at Duke the next academic year.This is a small issue, but I wonder if it is true that all undergrads come to Duke with a hs diploma.
I knew very smart kids who left high school a year early to attend Duke-equivalent colleges; those colleges didn’t seem to care that those kids didn’t finish their 4 years of hs English. And I know people who didn’t get their college degrees before going to med school. All of those people turned out fine.
More recently, when Flagg, Maluach, Proctor, etc, came to Duke a year early, did Duke admissions care whether they were on track to officially graduate from high school within 3 years? Or do they look at grades and test scores and the student and make a decision about whether they can handle the load? The latter evaluation strikes me as far more meaningful than whether they completed all of their school’s requirements within 3 years. But maybe I’m off base and they really care about that hs diploma…
Are the women's teams the Girly Whirlies?Wait. There's a sports team called the Whirlies?