Stanford's Brook Lopez academically ineligible

[Russ Smith]

So far 1st semester only which means he'll miss at least 9 games. The local paper quotes him as saying he let his team down and he'll make sure it doesn't happen again.

One assumes he was thinking about entering the last draft and let his grades slip but since he made his decision not to enter pretty early that doesn't seem to be the reason why.

 

[Renz]

Lopez could be back by Dec. 19th, so it shouldn't hurt them too much, especially since he is allowed to practice during his suspension.

 

[Kel Varnsen]

I always click on these Brook Lopez threads thinking that Brook Lopez is gonna be someone else.

 

[Russ Smith]

Lopez could be back by Dec. 19th, so it shouldn't hurt them too much, especially since he is allowed to practice during his suspension.

I think the main thing is it's such a shock when a Stanford player is ineligible over grades. Especially a guy whose mom is a teacher, and was taking such tough courses as Spanish(the family is Cuban) last year at Stanford! Sacramento paper had a story on him and Robin last year that included the classes they were taking lets just say not exactly the typical Stanford undergrad curriculum.

After he missed a lot of time early last year was really looking forward to seeing what he would do in a full season. Not sure how Stanford will handle the practice thing, last year USC stopped letting Pruitt practice because they realized he wasn't going to be there in games first semester and they were concerned he was taking practice time from guys who were going to have to play.

 

[Russ Smith]

Uh oh, this sounds liek it's gotten a lot worse. Brook suspended, and twin brother Robin reportedly also on probation.

http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/10/19/brookLopezSuspendedFromTeam

 

[Russ Smith]

ESPN says Stanford will re-evaluate Brook Lopez next Friday to see if he's making progress(one week?) and the consider reinstating him but for right now he's banned from all activities with the team which includes practices.

I always wonder with a scholarship kid they get free books, tuition, room, food etc, if they get suspended do they still get all that?

 

[Gaddabout]

I think you have to work really hard to become academically ineligible at Stanford because the student is given so much freedom to challenge a grade. Maybe it's changed, but you used to be able to take a course over and have the previous grade wiped out like it never happened.

 

[Russ Smith]

I think you have to work really hard to become academically ineligible at Stanford because the student is given so much freedom to challenge a grade. Maybe it's changed, but you used to be able to take a course over and have the previous grade wiped out like it never happened.

You can withdraw without a failing grade at virtually any time. The mean GPA at Stanford is supposedly 3.3-3.5, that's not in HS, that is after you get to Stanford.So yes you have to try to not be eligible.

 

[Skkorpion]

I think you have to work really hard to become academically ineligible at Stanford because the student is given so much freedom to challenge a grade. Maybe it's changed, but you used to be able to take a course over and have the previous grade wiped out like it never happened.

eh, no matter. Every school fudges.

Matt Leinart got to win a Heisman at USC by taking 1 class in his senior year: Ballroom dancing. Wonder how many other similar classes are available there?

When I was at Notre Dame, struggling in a chemical engineering major, I enrolled in an elective class for an easy A called "Music Appreciation." Found out it was chock full of football players. We showed up, listened to Bach, Mozart, Ravi Shankar and African tribal chants. No tests, no attendance taken, guaranteed A's for everybody .

Learned about a bunch of other similar classes from my new-found football buddies. Only problem was getting registered for those classes. They filled up fast and athletes had priority because of "practice and travel schedules. " Shock and dismay. Sheesh.

 

[Russ Smith]

eh, no matter. Every school fudges.

Matt Leinart got to win a Heisman at USC by taking 1 class in his senior year: Ballroom dancing. Wonder how many other similar classes are available there?

When I was at Notre Dame, struggling in a chemical engineering major, I enrolled in an elective class for an easy A called "Music Appreciation." Found out it was chock full of football players. We showed up, listened to Bach, Mozart, Ravi Shankar and African tribal chants. No tests, no attendance taken, guaranteed A's for everybody .

Learned about a bunch of other similar classes from my new-found football buddies. Only problem was getting registered for those classes. They filled up fast and athletes had priority because of "practice and travel schedules. " Shock and dismay. Sheesh.

To be fair the only reason Matt was at USC was to play that year. He was a 5th year senior he needed 2 classes to graduate so he took classes to meet the required number of units passed to stay eligible. It wasn't an example of USC giving an athlete a break, he redshirted a year so he was very close to graduating.

Now you want to talk now, USC has been bragging for months now about Mayo's grades in summer school, Mayo just told Slam online what classes he took, Environmental disasters, and black cinema. I realize it's summer school and freshmen don't necessarily start off with tough courses but the way USC fans have been hyping his success in summer school you'd think he took Physics and economics or something.

what everyone is saying is Brook just wasn't going to class. The interesting thing here is that Robin is on academic probation too, he's eligible, but he either scored low enough or missed enough classes to get on probation.

 

[abomb]

Now you want to talk now, USC has been bragging for months now about Mayo's grades in summer school, Mayo just told Slam online what classes he took, Environmental disasters, and black cinema.

Test question: Compare the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to the impact of "Shaft" on 1970s American cinema.

 

[Russ Smith]

Test question: Compare the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to the impact of "Shaft" on 1970s American cinema.

I was thinking the first class would be hurricane katrina was

a) earthquake
b) volcano
c) killer bees
d) hurricane

mayo told them his major would be business management and real estate investment but "I have to do some freshman courses and stuff first."

Later on he admitted the plan was to get to the NBA as fast as possible.

UCLA seems to have most of their team every year majoring in history.

 

[Skkorpion]

Test question: Compare the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to the impact of "Shaft" on 1970s American cinema.

hehe, that is the best post this new board split-off has seen yet.

 

[Russ Smith]

Reinstated Friday, was in the team scrimmage on Saturday.

He's still ineligible for the first 9 games but he's no longe suspended.