BYU and grades

[Utah]

There is a myth that BYU has high acceptance standards and that is why they miss out on recruits. 

This is a lie. 

Acceptance standards are set by the conference and then individual teams can increase those standards (see Stanford). 

BYU has no conference, therefore no set standards. They can do whatever they want. 

For example, Dyan Lake was a nonqualifier out of high school. He could not get accepted into any school in the country in a conference. Yet, BYU admitted him, got him eligible, and now he plays for them. 

Dont buy this “ACT/GPA” crap. BYU has always done this with kids with lower grades. That’s why the NCAA stepped in and s**t down their summer courses for eligibility. It was shady as hell. 

[EagleMountainUte]

Is this the same for on field issues? Is it true that the player sitting the first half, Micah Hannahmontana has more than one ejection?

If they are part of a conference does he get suspended longer?

[Chidojuan]

Seems like an ejection was a severe enough penalty to get players to stop in most if not all other targeting situations. Are there players with multiple subsequent instances? Sadly, I think you’d be hard pressed to find one that wasn’t at BYU.

[EagleMountainUte]

Well I haven’t been paying attention much to them. I recall after the Memphis brawl they didn’t do s**t to any of the involved. 

[AZUTE]

Micah Hammerhead was ejected for targeting in their bowl game last season vs. Wyoming and and had to sit the first half of the Portland St. game the season.

[EagleMountainUte]

So you are telling me that now pretty much three games in a row they have had a targeting call?  Yet Sitake says they don’t teach that?   

[PlainsUte]

BYU-Wyoming Pionsettia Bowl:Hanneman Targeting 3rd Q

BYU-Portland State: Missed call?

http://247sports.com/Bolt/Watch-Targeting-call-missed-in-BYU-Portland-State-opener-106537096

BYU-LSU: Hanneman Targeting 3rd Q

[EagleMountainUte]

I thought it was flagged in the PSU game my mistake. I like in the LSU game the booth called it.

[PlainsUte]

Since Hanneman sat out half of the Portland State game he was playing in just his 5th quarter of football since his last ejection when called again for targeting.

[ladyinred]

Lmao hammerhead! 😂

[ladyinred]

Oh look my stalker has wasted no time and already given a thumbs down. Nice of your dad to let you use the computer so early today.

[BJA 13]

Give the Kid a break.  He just wants some time off.  He’s getting 100% pay for half the work.   Maybe he’s smarter than we think. 😉

[UtahFanSir]

I’m struggling with this…

[EagleMountainUte]

Adding Mitt Romney in the last is a crown jewel on that article. He is still the great White horse down there two failed presidential campaigns. Spending millions of his own money. Pathetic. 

[shakeitsugaree]

I wouldn’t worry too much about what someone paid Forbes to say about BYU.

Not sure about all disciplines, but to say Utah’s scientific research is ahead of anything happening at BYU is like saying P5 conferences attract better athletes than DII schools.

Science at BYU is not in the same league as the U. Hell, they’re not even the same sport. This is unequivocally true, and can be quantified in many, many different ways (grant funding, quality of facilities, number of publications in scientific journals, number of Nobel laureates, and on and on and on), but it isn’t even a discussion within the scientific community.

If you’re a kid in Utah and want a career in science, are you going to choose the place with world class facilities and faculty, or the place where your professors will teach ‘intelligent design’ with a straight face?

Literally a no brainer.

[Puget Ute]

After they play us this week they will play Wisconsin, a team with very high academic standards for students and players. The academic standards were so tough that Gary Andersen didn’t believe he could recruit enough talented players. Wiscy, along with a handful of other P5 teams (Stanford) and the Service Academies all have extremely high academic requirements, which most of byu’s players couldn’t meet.

That myth is just silly.

[TheJuggernaut]

BYU will accept any athlete who meets the minimum NCAA academic requirements. Add to that the fact that they can (and do) accept non qualifiers and you could make the case that BYU has the lowest academic entrance standards in all of college football.