Maybe he didn't have a choice. In those days, prospects forced to follow the juco route because of academic deficiencies had to be there for two years.
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We are talking about the Big 8 in the 70’s and 80’s. Rules were optional
Chose to be a backup at Oregon rather than a starter for miserable Nebraska. And his dad freaking played there.
Except that a player still had to have a high school (and in this case a junior college) transcript and test scores to the NCAA.
And were those transcripts legit? I mean Dexter Manley made it through Ok St without being able to read. So, do we think the Big 8 was forthcoming with the NCAA with their athletes academic records and eligibility? Bottom line in this conversation is that Rozier had to go to community college before Nebraska due to poor grades, just as Marshall said. We can go back and forth all night, but that was the point of the original conversation. We are splitting hairs now.
And looking the other way when doctoring transcripts was going on.
Weak excuse. Did the staff recruit before psu hired them? Did thy not have any relationships?
Academic records don't flow through the school to the NCAA. And athletes who spend only one year at a junior college don't do so because of unacceptable high school academic credentials.
So Wilson doctored Rozier's transcript making him eligible? Then why did he spend a year at Coffeyville?
That may have been the norm. But Frank Gifford, Jim Taylor and Roger Staubach are among those who spent 1 year only.
Since the NCAA Academic Clearinghouse did not exist, admission requirements were not uniform.
And so far as anyone has been able to find out Dorsett never attended a class at sPitt and had hundreds of $ in unpaid traffic tickets maybe they still aren't paid, or maybe someone paid them for him. He also never finished at sPitt.
I never said it was Rozier you seem to be great at putting words in other peoples mouths.
Whatever dude. It doesn’t matter. He went to JUCO out of HS. Not directly to Nebraska.
Heck, many current players have questionable transcripts. I have seen quite a few athletes over the years be given letter grades much higher than they deserved so that their gpa was high enough to offset a low test score.
When I was coaching basketball, I would always tell my freshmen who had potential to play scholarship level basketball to always retake their English and math classes over the summer if they got below a B. It was well known that if you just showed up every day and did a basic classwork that you would get to be more higher for your final grade in summer school and thus cancel out anything lower that was on your transcript from the year.
When I was coaching basketball, I would always tell my freshmen who had potential to play scholarship level basketball to always retake their English and math classes over the summer if they got below a B. It was well known that if you just showed up every day and did a basic classwork that you would get to be more higher for your final grade in summer school and thus cancel out anything lower that was on your transcript from the year.
Gifford graduated high school in 1948 and I don't know what the standards were back then. No indication that Staubach had academic issues, so, like Aaron Rodgers, could have exited NMMI after one year.
Taylor enrolled at LSU immediately after high school. Had academic difficulties as a freshman, transferred to a junior college, the re-enrolled. That was not an uncommon path in later years. The two-year (and associate degree) only applied to athletes who enrolled in junior college after high school due to academic deficiency.