😂😂😂

 

And no @Joe Zura, Talia doesn’t want your cell # 

So Ohio State football players rely on tutors and do not necessarily attend classes?  I could not play the media.

12 minutes ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

And no @Joe Zura, Talia doesn’t want your cell # 

🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼 I am happily married you SOB 🖕🏼🖕🏼🤣

Nothing new.  Cardale Jones told us how it is there a decade ago.

I suspect not attending classes is fairly common at most schools. These aren’t student athletes anymore. They’re professional football players in a developmental league that just happens to be on college campuses. 

13 minutes ago, Joe Zura said:

🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼 I am happily married you SOB 🖕🏼🖕🏼🤣

We're all happily married......right? 🤔

27 minutes ago, Tuco Ramirez said:

I suspect not attending classes is fairly common at most schools. These aren’t student athletes anymore. They’re professional football players in a developmental league that just happens to be on college campuses. 

Yes. ND is one of the very few that is required to attend classes 

54 minutes ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

And no @Joe Zura, Talia doesn’t want your cell # 

Yes she does @Gerry Hamilton

7 minutes ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

Yes. ND is one of the very few that is required to attend classes 

But how tough are the curricula and are they tested???   🤔

1 hour ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

And no @Joe Zura, Talia doesn’t want your cell # 

@Joe Zura is more of a water fowl kinda guy anyway.

5 hours ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

Yes. ND is one of the very few that is required to attend classes 

Good for ND.

Fwiw, my daughter graduated from UT in 2017. Even though she is a legacy and grew up in a Burnt Orange home and went to many Longhorns football games as a kid... her Sophomore year on the Forty Acres she had a class with a DB on the football team. Not a starting player, but a guy who saw a decent number of snaps on Special Teams and in the Secondary in certain personnel packages.

The professor assigned a group project and the football player invited the student group to meet in the study facility used by the football team.

After the first meeting, my daughter called me in a bit of a huff. She was upset and jealous of the "incredibly nice" meeting/study facility the University provided for the football players. I told her she was a bit naive about how the World of Big Time college football worked! And this was before the era of NIL.

I remember she said the Longhorns football player was a good student, "but he ought to be, given the support given to the players."

The player transferred after that year, which was also his Sophomore season at Texas.

Hook 'Em! 

 

Maybe he meant to say that he was able to take some online classes at Ohio St, but Notre Dame only offers in person classes?

2 hours ago, BornOrange said:

Maybe he meant to say that he was able to take some online classes at Ohio St, but Notre Dame only offers in person classes?

Yes. Many, many colleges aren’t requiring athletes attend classes at this point. It’s online 

ND is one of the few that are required to attend classes in person 

14 hours ago, Burnt Orange Horn said:

But how tough are the curricula and are they tested???   🤔

They're tested once a month. 😁

7 hours ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

Yes. Many, many colleges aren’t requiring athletes attend classes at this point. It’s online 

ND is one of the few that are required to attend classes in person 

Not just athletes, but regular students as well

School, like winning, is tough especially when you actually have to school at school. 

On 2/19/2026 at 11:09 PM, Jc Dobbs said:

Good for ND.

Fwiw, my daughter graduated from UT in 2017. Even though she is a legacy and grew up in a Burnt Orange home and went to many Longhorns football games as a kid... her Sophomore year on the Forty Acres she had a class with a DB on the football team. Not a starting player, but a guy who saw a decent number of snaps on Special Teams and in the Secondary in certain personnel packages.

The professor assigned a group project and the football player invited the student group to meet in the study facility used by the football team.

After the first meeting, my daughter called me in a bit of a huff. She was upset and jealous of the "incredibly nice" meeting/study facility the University provided for the football players. I told her she was a bit naive about how the World of Big Time college football worked! And this was before the era of NIL.

I remember she said the Longhorns football player was a good student, "but he ought to be, given the support given to the players."

The player transferred after that year, which was also his Sophomore season at Texas.

Hook 'Em! 

 

 I used to be on the faculty of a well known university.  I was not on the faculty senate, but was occasionally asked to act as a proxy for someone who could not attend.  At one of the meetings they reviewed the athletic department's major sports programs and their budgets.  I was shocked at how much was spent on tutors alone.  I was also shocked to hear that in real life the average GPA for the basketball team was under 2.0 (it takes a 2.0 to graduate) while in the press it was routinely stated how great the basketball team was doing academically, that no one was failing, and that the graduation rate was equal to the student population in general (of course it was for those who stayed more than one year).  The athletes, particularly football, get better food, better dorms if they have them for athletes, better health care, etc.  None of this is new.

4 hours ago, .45s said:

 I used to be on the faculty of a well known university.  I was not on the faculty senate, but was occasionally asked to act as a proxy for someone who could not attend.  At one of the meetings they reviewed the athletic department's major sports programs and their budgets.  I was shocked at how much was spent on tutors alone.  I was also shocked to hear that in real life the average GPA for the basketball team was under 2.0 (it takes a 2.0 to graduate) while in the press it was routinely stated how great the basketball team was doing academically, that no one was failing, and that the graduation rate was equal to the student population in general (of course it was for those who stayed more than one year).  The athletes, particularly football, get better food, better dorms if they have them for athletes, better health care, etc.  None of this is new.

Thanks for your post-- very interesting and informative. I'm actually visiting my daughter this weekend and she was interested in the information you provided.

Best wishes to you and Hook 'Em!

 

Cardale Jones with the greatest Ohio St graduation cap ever.

Edited February 22Feb 22 by Jerky

On 2/19/2026 at 4:06 PM, Gerry Hamilton said:

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Poor delusional soul...🤣😂

 

Are the Texas Longhorns afraid to play the Notre Dame Fighting Irish?