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Quote from: lighter on November 20, 2006, 03:04:15 PM
Ouetion. Being from the Mid-West I was wondering how The Coast Guard Academy can be part of D-3 since they give 4 year scholarships (although I realize they are for all students) still you can recruit players you want and they fall under the full scholarship program. It seems to be a great advantage that other schools don't have. Just curious.

I'm a little late on this but just to clarify. Because CGA does not require a congressional appointment they have a completely merit based system of selecting cadets. Unlike the other academies everyone competes on an equal footing. The only thing that playing a sport will do for you is give you a few more "points" over a guy with the same credentials and no sports. I'd say it's actually a lot harder for CGA Coaches to recruit because there applicant have to have pretty high SAT/ACT scores or be extremely well rounded.
Lets face it us football players though we can be pretty intelligent we aren't known for being valedictorians that often.
CGA does get a few recruits into NAPS every year which is the navies prep school (and where most of there athletes go) But for the most part they have to find people that have the credentials required and the football ability in order to get them accepted to the swab class.
Not to say that there aren't some guys that get by, but it isn't easy.

From what i read about and caught on the radio Curry didn't so much win the game. Coast Guard pretty much lost it. 4 fumbles and three times in the red zone with out a score and still only a 6 point difference. Thats not exactly a monumental win. And unless I'm mistaken springfield still runs the option better than any team in the NE. I don't think the NEFC is going to get it's first win this weekend.  It's football though and I've seen and played in some miracles before. Good luck to both teams