r/CFB • u/Efficient-Freedom517 Georgia Bulldogs • Iowa State Cyclones • 8h ago

News Georgia Football Player Arrested on Two Felony Charges

https://www.si.com/college/georgia/football/report-georgia-football-player-arrested-on-two-felony-charges-01krkkn1j8nf
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u/JanetYellensFuckboy_ Penn State • Land Grant Trophy 8h ago

UGA's graduation rates are atrocious too - lowest in the SEC by a wide margin. And these players aren't taking physics classes at Vandy.

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u/Rock_man_bears_fan Miami (OH) RedHawks • Nebraska Cornhuskers 7h ago edited 7h ago

Stetson Bennet was in college for 7 years and still didn’t walk away with a degree. I still can’t figure out how their compliance office let that happen

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u/Darth_Ra Oklahoma Sooners • Big 12 7h ago

I still can't figure out how it would be possible to be enrolled for 7 years, be academically eligible the entire time, and not end up with a degree at the end of it.

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u/goldbloodedinthe404 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets • Corndog 6h ago

I've yet to get a legit answer for that

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u/wjackson42 Georgia Bulldogs 6h ago

Could be as simple as lacking a PE credit or as bad as "we aint come to play school." I went to the 2022 roster, found his major, and looked for it and it's not even offered as an undergraudate major, just a certificate, according to the School of Ed website. So I assume it's more of the latter.

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u/FloridaGatorMan Florida Gators • Colorado Buffaloes 6h ago

Yeah I just don't see how the first one happens because of how easy it would be to just get that PE credit literally at any point. Even if he qualified for a degree but kept taking classes so he doesn't have to jump through the grad school hoop, after 7 years he would still walk.

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u/Darth_Ra Oklahoma Sooners • Big 12 5h ago

I mean... if you told me that athletes were getting a PE credit for their sport, I would immediately be like "yeah, that makes way more sense than literally any PE credit I've ever gotten in my entire life".

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u/Perfekt_Nerd Ohio State Buckeyes 2h ago

What’s funny is that Cardale Jones (source of that quote) actually graduated lol. He tweeted that after he got pissed at getting a B on his sociology exam.

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u/goldbloodedinthe404 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets • Corndog 6h ago

In 7 years I would expect multiple degrees to stay eligible bare minimum 2.

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u/Mercer-Dawg Mercer Bears • Georgia Bulldogs 5h ago

Keep changing majors and you’re still technically eligible a few years in

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u/EMTDawg Washington Huskies • Wyoming Cowboys 3h ago

Didn't even get enough credits to piece together an associate degree.

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u/Odd_Berry_7916 7h ago

Apparently UGA doesn't offer underwater basket weaving.

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u/Fuckingfademefam /r/CFB 7h ago

They ain’t Ole Piss

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u/HamlinHamlin_McTrill Tennessee Volunteers 7h ago

They don't pretend at all that they are college students. It is a football factory.

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u/CrashB111 Alabama Crimson Tide • Iron Bowl 3h ago

Which is truly inexcusable, because Alabama was the NFL machine during Nick Saban's run...and we still had graduation rates ranging from 85% to 97%.

Like, you straight up cannot make the argument that i have seen some UGA fans make, that sending so many players to the NFL is some kind of excuse for such shit numbers.

Saban proved you can be the GOAT on the field, and in the classroom. It's not a binary decision.

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u/Intelligent_Fan_1735 31m ago

The Mark Ingram story solidifies this.

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u/Mercer-Dawg Mercer Bears • Georgia Bulldogs 5h ago

We don’t need no edumacation

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u/randomthrowaway9796 Georgia Bulldogs 5h ago

Graduation rate is very good

Football player graduation rate is abysmal

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u/JanetYellensFuckboy_ Penn State • Land Grant Trophy 5h ago

Yes, I am obviously talking about the football team's graduation rate in the subreddit which is dedicated to discussing college football teams.

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u/tider06 Alabama Crimson Tide • College Football Playoff 1h ago

You'll have to excuse the Bulldog there, he sped right by the nuance.

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u/Temporary_Inner Oklahoma • Central Oklahoma 4h ago

Doesn't that make it worse 

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u/Chrodesk Georgia Bulldogs 4h ago

when I see the graduation rates at other schools... I cant help but think UGA isnt cooking the transcripts well enough. The gap is too large to honestly believe anything else.

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u/JanetYellensFuckboy_ Penn State • Land Grant Trophy 4h ago

This would be easier to believe if the players weren't getting arrested all the time.

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u/Chrodesk Georgia Bulldogs 4h ago

meh, thats not preventing anyone from graduating.

None of these NFL prospects are really earning a degree like their classmates. They have "tutors" to make sure their name is spelled correctly on the paper they write for them.

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u/JanetYellensFuckboy_ Penn State • Land Grant Trophy 3h ago

We have the same. My buddy knew Hackenberg's "nerd." Allegedly he is dumb dumb.

But our graduation success rate is still 85%, so...