Congratulations to the players for getting after it in the classroom, and congratulations to the coaches that got a bonus for helping them along the way.
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Football GPAs continue to climb.
- Thread starter ElrodGrizzly
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Excellent Job!!!
billingsgriz
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A team GPA over 3 3 is truly something special to celebrate as the overwhelming majority of not only our kids but all NCAA and NAIA student-athletes are not going to make a living playing professional sports upon graduation. The main tool for our kids future they will leave UM with will be their undergraduate degree from UM ( and a lot of great memories ) !!!
And frosting on the cake: our kiddos like Alex Gubner, Trevyn Gradney, and the head of our NIL collective Marcus Weinel that also earn their graduate degree while at UM, MBA's from UM's excellent business school in the case of Gubs, Trevyn, and Marcus !!!
Go GRIZ !!!
And frosting on the cake: our kiddos like Alex Gubner, Trevyn Gradney, and the head of our NIL collective Marcus Weinel that also earn their graduate degree while at UM, MBA's from UM's excellent business school in the case of Gubs, Trevyn, and Marcus !!!
Go GRIZ !!!
HikeGlacier
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Insignificant without attaching it to the degree earned.Congratulations to the players for getting after it in the classroom, and congratulations to the coaches that got a bonus for helping them along the way.
Safe to say none of them majored in pickle canning. Dilly Dilly.
Kudos to these student athletes. Glad that Montana is a place where many still come to get their degrees and play a little football along the way.
GriznMN
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Geez, Debbie Downer. Give the kids kudos.
Colter_Nuanez56
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I posed this question to the Griz Fan pod guys in our group text, so I’ll pose it here.
Over the next five years….If you could have a continuation of this GPA or better, no off the field issues, and a similar or slightly worse in field performance than we’ve seen over the last 5 years…
Or you could have double digit wins, annual rivalry game victories, 5 straight Big Sky to titles, deep playoff runs and a national championship but the GPA has to dip below 3.0 and off the field issues pop up… which would you choose?
On a complete side note, I would love to know the top GPA for a national champion, FBS and FCS. I really have no idea….
Over the next five years….If you could have a continuation of this GPA or better, no off the field issues, and a similar or slightly worse in field performance than we’ve seen over the last 5 years…
Or you could have double digit wins, annual rivalry game victories, 5 straight Big Sky to titles, deep playoff runs and a national championship but the GPA has to dip below 3.0 and off the field issues pop up… which would you choose?
On a complete side note, I would love to know the top GPA for a national champion, FBS and FCS. I really have no idea….
i searched around, and it appears that the average cumulative gpa for enrolled um students is about 3.3 - 3.36; it's a little hard to find exact data for um, but the average gpa at other um branches (i.e. um western) is 3.3. do with that information whatever you want...
Assuming for the purposes of conversation they are mutually exclusive, I would selfishly take the lower GPA with a few more off the field issues popping up (as long as it doesn't become egregious). We have actually had an incredibly clean program in Missoula for years now, and that is great, but yes, I would like to have the wins. This situation is better for the student athletes, though.
There is a balance there. Obviously I don't want the team to, for instance, grab black ski masks and PVC pipes and lead a raid on a fraternity. But if there were some minor issues, I'd be okay with it. There is a line, though, like the way Georgia developed a culture of racing cars on city streets even after a staff member's death, and I'd say winning certainly isn't worth that level of issues, so there is a line I would stop being as comfortable crossing.
Thankfully, I genuinely don't believe they are mutually exclusive. We have had a hell of a football team over the last five years, and a great group of kids where nobody is getting in any trouble and they are getting degrees (even masters degrees). I'm hoping both can trend in the right direction together.
So would we rather be Fans of the Griz the last few years or be Bobcat fans of the last few years? I'll take the trip to the Championship 2 years ago and a clean program.
GriznMN
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I would choose a continuation of this GPA or better, no off the field issues, double digit wins, annual rivalry game victories, 5 straight Big Sky titles, deep playoff runs and a national championship.
MikeyGriz
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Yeah, I'd settle for this too!
RainierGriz
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A good ethics question, but I think a program that has a solid academic standing is preferred. Sure, the lack of on field success for those 5 years would be frustrating, but I think it sets your program up better for the future. As we’ve seen before, bad publicity can really set a program back for recruiting/enrollment. Not spot I want us to ever be in again.