thatguy2016
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I can't quite tell if you intended the mediocre joke or the brilliant one. I'm going with the latter
that's an optimistic prospective
I can't quite tell if you intended the mediocre joke or the brilliant one. I'm going with the latter
When I walked on back in the dark ages, I just sent a VHS tape to the coaching staff and then Coach Faircloth called me up and said they wanted me to walk on. At the time, I think Wake was happy to have semi-athletic warm bodies, so if you were willing to go through all the stuff that was necessary to be on the team, you would be on the team. Maybe it is more competitive with Clawson.
I will echo the assertion that being a member of a D1 football team is an all-encompassing endeavor. After 1 season and part of another, I decided there were better ways to spend my time outside of class.
Yeah, I never walked on but know some who have. For every inspiring story of some guy getting a scholarship for his junior and/or senior year, there are two dozen guys who quit after a year or two, and for good reason.
Beautifulthat's an optimistic prospective
Still exists. A family friend's son goes there and loves it except for that....It is a SMALL school though....Very small. Their D line coach used to be at Wake so there's a good connection....
Does it involve telling him where to get a CHAM or what to order at Mountain Fried Chicken?
That coach you reference is a dirty scumbag. Ray McCartney was part of the Wakeyleaks scandal. Some great connection there.
If McCartney was worth two shits as a coach, he would still be coaching D-I football. Not glorified high school ball.
Ah. When he was at Army. Small world we live in....
non sports -- I so miss CHAM and Mountain Fried.. And Honeymonk..
Carryon
HS GPA out of 4.0 was virtually identically to my Wake GPA.
FWIW, for class of 12, there were 55 Summa graduates, 124 Magna, and 213 Cum Laude. Not 100% sure how many graduated, but I think 1100. So that's top 5%, top 16%, and top 36%.
For reference, Vandy targets top 5% for Summa (3.9 GPA vs 3.8 for Wake), top 13% for Magna (3.8 vs 3.6 for Wake), and top 25% for Cum Laude (3.7 vs 3.4). Duke is 5%, 15%, 25%.
Wake's % of Summa graduates seems pretty consistent with other institutions (Duke also targets the top 5%), but the % of students with other distinctions is higher. If one applied the Vandy GPAs though (which are set every year, based on the prev. year I believe), Wake would likely have significantly fewer students receiving distinction. Of course, there are two obvious and opposing potential drivers of that (difficulty of grading vs quality of students).
I don't know how it is now, but there was grade inflation at Wake in the 90s when I graduated. I'm pretty sure something like 60 percent of my class finished with Latin honors. This was before the Latin honors GPA cutoffs were increased circa 2000 or thereabouts.
Of course Wake is still a tough school, and the curve is high because most Wake students work hard and do well. Maybe the 90s were the start of a trend or maybe they were an aberration.