I was thinking of posting this Jon Wilner article in the main football forum, but I realized that it would likely become derailed with political discussion, so I'll just repost this as a sub discussion here.
Wilner gave his take on the UC SAT decision on Friday: it was "
good news for the Cal and UCLA football programs":
Quote:
"It's one less barrier to admission," said Scott Carrell, an economics professor at UC Davis.
Carrell has a unique perspective on the development. He serves as UCD's Faculty Athletics Representative the liaison between athletics and academia and has studied the college admissions process in California.
[...]
"UCLA and Cal have tougher standards than most of their peers; that's true,'' Carrell said. "At many places, you just need the NCAA minimum to be admitted.
"Now that GPA will be the primary admissions factor at the UCs, it should be easier for them to assess the recruits' admissibility."
Back in 2007, then-Furd coach Jim Harbaugh
caught controversy after suggesting that his alma mater Michigan lowered admission standards for football players while saying about his employer: "We're looking not for student-athletes, but scholar-athletes." Nine years later,
David Shaw criticized satellite camps with a similar elitist POV: "It doesn't make sense for us to go hold a camp some place where there might be one person in the entire state that's eligible to get into Stanford."