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LB Freddie Lenix (Cincinnati signee; transfer to Notre Dame College)

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The Ohio State University has undergone a process in recent years to benchmark itself against other leading public universities in America and desires to be establish and/or maintain a ranking among the very best public universities in all of its core majors.

Ohio State has never had a problem with exit standards, but state mandated entry standards did require Ohio State to admit many students who were not equipped to survive and prosper in a large university that required self-motivation and achievement. And Ohio State's rankings were diminished by the large drop-out rate from the freshman and sophomore classes.

Nevertheless, the academic standards of Ohio State graduates are comparable to the top public universities in America. Again, exit standards have never been a problem for the university.

However, we must not let our strong feelings for Ohio State cloud our objectivity about academic performance in the football program.

To be very frank, the academic performance of our student-athletes in the football program is among the nation's worst, ranking in the 10%-20% range of all football programs and in the bottom 10% of all student-athletes, according to the current NCAA APR reports. http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/apr2/518_2004_apr.pdf

Another NCAA report shows that only about half of our football players enrolled in 97/8 have graduated. The basketball program is worse. http://www.ncaa.org/grad_rates/2004/d1/schools/RPT00518.html

It is important to remember that academic performance has picked up since Jim Tressel arrived, so there is no need to experience anguish. Nevertheless, we have a serious problem.

The NCAA is threatening universities who perform at this level and the last thing we want is a 10-0 team roll into Ann Arbor knowing that it is banned from the post-season because of its academic performance. So, given the NCAA pressure that we are under to improve this, it is not surprising that Ohio State will be hesitant to take on a student that it thinks cannot pass.

This whole thing with Freddie Lenix breaks my heart. He has really worked to qualify and I have tremendous respect for him. I am heartsick for this kid, who I expect to be among the best college defensive players, if he can remain eligible.

However, I support the University in it's efforts to climb out of the APR problem that it has.
 
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APR problem that it has.
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FWIW ... HH (on the BN$) says that the new reports coming out with the new year will show OSU in the top 25% -- the reports that you cite are dated and don't take JT's efforts/contributions into account.

The same thing applies to graduation rates - "good football schools" usually have players leaving early and/or transferring ... so they count as a (-) toward those statistics.
 
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Sometimes kids just cannot cut it academically, and need to do what they can to get on the field anywhere they can-like Chad Johnson. I'm glad Freddie gave it the old college try (or not ) for OSU, but he neds to look out for his own best interests now, and right now, the Bearcats serve those interests better. Good luck at Nippert.
 
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Freddie Lenix to Cincinnati? (MERGED)

I'm hearing that Freddie is still struggling to get his grades up to play ball with the Buckeyes. I also heard he was down to Cincinnati to check out the campus. Anybody else heard the same thing?
 
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Ratboy18 said:
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FWIW ... HH (on the BN$) says that the new reports coming out with the new year will show OSU in the top 25% -- the reports that you cite are dated and don't take JT's efforts/contributions into account.

The same thing applies to graduation rates - "good football schools" usually have players leaving early and/or transferring ... so they count as a (-) toward those statistics.
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I didn't see the comments by HH, but we would have to improve from the level that the NCAA uses this year because it compares us to the student-athletes who played at Ohio State during John Cooper's final years, which is why I said...

It is important to remember that academic performance has picked up since Jim Tressel arrived, so there is no need to experience anguish.

It will be hard to get to a score of .95-.96 or so from the .89 of that period. That would be a great accomplishment and the coaching staff should get a lot of love for that one.
 
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I think losing Lenix definitely stings. If I recall correctly Alex Boone said Freddie was the best football player he saw last year. Anytime we have a truly special kid who has verballed to us and we lost for any reason it dings our program. C'est La Vie

Best Wishes Freddie at UC. Think about transferring in a year or so :biggrin:

Fred you will always a Buckeye to me. :oh: :io:
 
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Very sad turn of events... I still dont know how this could have happend... didnt he enroll in the CC to take classes that he needed to get into OSU?? Barring failing them, how is he not being accepted??

Lenix was the best defensive player to come out of Ohio in the last 2-3 years.. Its shame he wont get to play for the Bucks..
 
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