Quote from: Trin8-0 on June 28, 2006, 02:03:27 PM
I'm all for a discussion about any aspect of NESCAC football, however, I am getting bored with the continuous barage of unsubstantiated knocks on Trinity, it's current and former players, coaches, administration and students. It is especially aggrevating when done by those who do so merely to take a cheap shot at others, rather than actually add something to a discussioin.

We're all big boys here, so if you're going to dish it out, be prepared to take it.

Hey, hey!  Trinity's not cutting corners...still??!! What?? LOL. This haven for losers is just cheating itself.  To the loser who wrote the above tripe: You are, as you well know, an imbecile.  Read on or get somebody to read it for you and explain it with  stick figures.  Privet,  Dr. - Marc H. is "Big Huckin Chicken" in the most recent Burger King ad.  series showing in the northeast market.

( BTW, let's try to keep this thread civil, dammit. There's no need for personal attacks. Let's all behave, ourselves. You respect me and I'll ....just keep laughing in your poor dumb mugs.... )

Oh, yeah, here's that inconvenient truth:


Would You Get in with a 2.5?
The football office protest of an unfair reputation is unjustified
Issue date: 5/2/06 Section: Editor


In the aftermath of an academic year-long battle over the credibility of the athletic recruiting process, new statistic records and other information have proven what we have all suspected for a while: the recruiting process is not fair. But how unfair are we talking about?

A red flag on someone's application is nothing compared to a starting point of a 2.5 GPA and an 850 SAT score for potential recruits. This is the information accidentally sent out to several students on campus through an e-mail from Keita Malloy, one of the new assistant football coaches. Several student e-mails were accidentally included in a mass e-mail sent out to high school coaches calling for juniors with those specific academic requirements, juniors who could potentially be admitted to Trinity College as a football recruit. With all of the outrage that the football affiliates handed out in response to last semester's publication of negative recruiting articles, one would think that there would be a legitimate complaint behind the negative reputation that the football program has gained. One would be clearly wrong. In a school who, according to statistics from the Admissions Office, enrolled a class of 2009 with approximately an average of a 3.5 GPA (in the A-/B+ area) and roughly an average SAT score of 1310, this e-mail clearly proclaims that the football office is exempt from these standards.

While Head Coach Jeff Devanney and Athletic Director Rick Hazelton vehemently denied these academic standards as acceptable by the Athletic Department, the complete lack of communication in the football office and the careless nature of this recruiting e-mail only go to show how misguided the athletic programs have become on this campus. The fact still remains that although Devanney and Hazelton claim that they would never look at a player with a score of 850, they would still entertain the thought of recruiting someone with a 2.5 GPA (according to Hazelton) and possibly someone with an SAT score of 1100 (according to Devanney).

The uproar that the football office caused in response to their policies was clearly completely unjustified, and all it took was a careless act of miscommunication by a new coach to show that in writing to the students. While Devanney claims that the e-mail that Malloy sent out inaccurately represented the standards of football at Trinity and that Malloy had used a standard e-mail left over from when he worked at Fordham University, the fact still remains that this e-mail was sent out to high school coaches, who think that Trinity accepts recruits of this academic caliber. Ignoring the fact that the e-mail stated that he was an assistant football coach at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, and that Trinity was a Division III school and a NESCAC affiliate (two things that Fordham is not), the football office seems more concerned with using the new staff member mistake as an excuse to cover up the leaked statistics as opposed to at least acting concerned that an e-mail list of high school football coaches from the Mid-Atlantic region received, or were going to receive, an official e-mail from the Trinity football office calling for students with such low academic standings.

The football office was on shaky grounds before, and it took one error from a new staff member to unveil the miscommunication that is clearly rampant throughout that office. This is not a problem distinct to this office. This is an epidemic of miscommunication, cut corners, cut programs and jaded priorities throughout all of the programs on campus, and all it will take is one small error for the shielded students to be exposed to the disaster behind the scenes.

Editorials represent the view of the The Trinity Tripod's executive board. The executive board consists of the Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor.