AO Sig wrote:
I would hazard a guess that there are not a lot of division 1 universities where more scholarship athletes in the big three sports (football, basketball and baseball) have gone on to MD's or JD's than Tulane. There were starters from the late 70's who ended up in Medical school- Roch Hontas, plus a lineman (sorry, cannot recall his name). I think Paul Thompson got his JD, if I recall (I might be wrong on this one).
A few years ago (it's been a few years since I've even listened to him so this was probably 10 or so ago) Collin Cownerd made one of the 3 or so statements he's ever said that I completely agreed with. He said, (something along the lines of) "There's a correlation between schools that play for championships and their GPAs. The higher the team GPA, the lower the chances that school will play for a championship". I think he was talking about football specifically and I know there are exceptions, but let's be honest, how many of lsu or Alabama's starting 22 would succeed in a Tulane classroom? I'm not saying we have a roster full of Einsteins but our players don't get nearly the "help" those programs get, though Tulane could stand to help a little more and could do so without risking their academic integrity.
off topic:
A couple things that I agreed with him on:
1- (this one I still use now) Once he talked a good while about the correlation between winning athletic programs and the boost the academic side sees from it.
2- When Jamarcus Russell was preparing to be a bust in the NFL draft, he mentioned that scouts kept talking about how he can throw 70 yards (or whatever it was) from his knees. Cowherd exclaimed, "So what! In the NFL, when a QB is on his knees, that's called a sack".