The Lions' Pride

I am thinking barring major injury...Johnny Manziel is going to be entering the 2014 draft.

does he skip off season weights as well if he is traveling all over the nation? I bet there are some pretty upset teamates that work their tail off and this big timer isn't even around. I hope he flops next year.

But it is just another in the long list of NCAA Hypocrites that want to blame only PSU for a football culture.

Article link for those who don't care to visit the Blue Board.

I wonder why does Johnny football have a girlfriend?? If I could pull tail like him zero percent chance I would have a gf...

His legend (albeit a young one at present) is gonna bite him in the ass at some point.

I don't think it is so bad that he is taking classes online. You never know he might actually get some work done and do it himself. If one of our beloved kids did this (let’s say Robinson) we wouldn't think the worst so maybe we should give him the benefit of the doubt. The article doesn’t say anything about him not going to workouts and working with his teammates. Maybe, just maybe he might have done this to actually get an education and be able to play football.

As someone who graduated over 20 years ago, why would a school allow full time students to take online courses? It doesn't make sense to me for either the student or the school.

Exactly. I'm a current student at main campus, and last semester I took 2 online classes to fulfill gen ed requirements. Made for a sweet schedule of only having real classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It is nearly 100% independent work. It only took about an hour a week to get an A in each class. The school has an instructor or grad assistant "in charge" of the class, but there is typically not much interaction needed. It also eliminates the need for physical space to hold class. In the end it's all about making more money.

I understand "non-traditional" students taking online courses or full-time students taking an occasional online course not offered at their school, but taking a full course load online seems antithetical to being a full time student.

Yes, on campus. I guess I'm just old fashioned.

That class is basically just reading sentences and finding the mistake, really no need to be in a classroom.

I agree. I have NO problem with Manziel taking spring semester of online classes. It is the current state of higher education. How many years has Penn State been pushing their World Campus? They now even have a banner for it on All-University Day. Even High School kids are going the cyber school route to graduate high school these days. I am waiting for the news to hit that some big time recruit played for a certain high school but took all his classes through some cyber school website. The high schools have to leave them play even though they do not go to the school.

Just for a Penn State reference that is sort of similar to this situation. Penn State had their starting QB in twice in a span of 3 years basically being a part-time student by taking 2 classes. Collins had a really light class schedule in '94 (2-3 classes) and Richardson only had 2 classes in '96 and one was ballroom dancing. They were allowed to do it because they both graduated before their senior season.