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Tre Demps points out the primary selling point for anybody who is not NBA material, has finished their undergrad degree, but has another year of eligibility.
Get an NU masters degree.
Ryan Young chose to leave NU to get a masters degree from Duke. Can't really blame him.
But the NU masters degree is really the major selling point.
Gotta like how Demps says he is without bias, but blatantly trying to help his alma mater!
16 ppg , which is not automatic as it would easily be a career high, would not elevate this program to the tournament, nor would those numbers make him the most important player in program history. I like Demps but he's wishcasting here.
(Though it would be amusing if a former Bill Carmody recruit sparked the team to success)
(Though it would be amusing if a former Bill Carmody recruit sparked the team to success)
Duke and Kentucky have reached out to “Slim Jake.” Kentucky makes sense because two of their assistants were at Illinois when Jake was recruited.
He was the best entry passer for Kofi, a good three point shooter and defender. Great free throw shooter. A coach on the floor. He will be 25 before next season is over. Has two undergrad degrees and one Master’s.
I think Underwood would have liked to have him back in a lesser role, but I’m sure Jake wants to be a main guy. With Melendez, Shannon, Mayer, Hawkins, Ty Rodgers, and Goode all at the 3/4 where Jake plays, his minutes were likely to go down.
I thought he was going to Europe to play. Surprised he is thinking about another college year.
He was the best entry passer for Kofi, a good three point shooter and defender. Great free throw shooter. A coach on the floor. He will be 25 before next season is over. Has two undergrad degrees and one Master’s.
I think Underwood would have liked to have him back in a lesser role, but I’m sure Jake wants to be a main guy. With Melendez, Shannon, Mayer, Hawkins, Ty Rodgers, and Goode all at the 3/4 where Jake plays, his minutes were likely to go down.
I thought he was going to Europe to play. Surprised he is thinking about another college year.
I LOVE Northwestern. Absolutely love Northwestern. Annoyingly so.
But, many of us on the board WAY over-estimate the value of an NU degree for those that our Division 1 college athletes. That is not to denigrate NU at all, which is a great school. Rather, it is a recognition that any employer worth being hired by in 2022 is cognizant of what goes into being a Scholarship athlete at a Division 1 University. The time management, discipline, teammate experience, awareness and capability of acting under pressure etc. are skills to hire for.
I LOVE NU, but getting a Sports Management graduate degree will do relatively little to change the career trajectory for a sports-playing college undergrad, even from some school for which traditionally we look down our nose at.
Especially true within the BIG as just about every school in our conference is a very good school.
You said the quiet part out loud. Which is why I advocate that NU stop acting like its so f'n special with athletic admissions.
I disagree completely.
Northwestern is special.
Most of the other universities in the conference are not.
Take a look at the acceptance rates for Northwestern and all the other Big Ten schools.
Whether University of Minnesota is a "very good" school is purely a matter of what "very good" means in this context...
Top 200?
Top 100?
Top 50?
Top 20?
If you were talking about basketball and said "well this team is ranked #11 and these other teams are #50, #90, #110, etc" you might say its like Gonzaga against the West Coast Conference. And Michigan gets to be Saint Mary's.
I'm surprised people come on this website and dispute this.
But in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't make a huge difference. Yes, there is a small advantage having that Northwestern degree when you apply for grad schools or jobs, but it's not like someone from Iowa wouldn't stand a chance. Heck, a candidate from Michigan would probably be looked at in a pretty similar light.
This whole thing was related to recruiting. The point people are trying to make is that the advantages of a Northwestern degree aren't so enormous over other BIG schools as to make up for the other disadvantages we have (as we've obviously seen year after year after year). And the advantages of that Northwestern degree become even less for bigtime Division I athletes because they already will have some cache from being an athlete.