" Who is Gable going to work out that can replicate Taha or Geno? There is no one in the US who can wrestle like those two. Gable is in for a rude awakening if he meets up with either of those two!"
Those people had it backwards!
Strange! I generally see boys having lower GPAs than girls on average and AP classes having more girls than boys. Possibly because homework and studying are discriminatory vs. boys!
My uncle was a college tennis coach at a d1 university, who also taught a class on sports ethics. He marveled at all the 'really smart, really poor' athletes who got into Harvard, played hockey, and had great financial aid packages.
I just came up with a similar stat (above). I wasn't counting individual AA's, just schools. I also counted Bakersfield as a dropped program. In 83 they were D2 but, as you remember, they moved up to D1 and eventually cut the program.
Right. PSU was a given based on your "PSU and other schools." Keep in mind that PSU wasn't exactly killing it either. They were top ten but nowhere near a trophy and they were the second best team in PA.
Big 8 had 4 schools in the top 10, Big 10 had 1.
It is going to start getting even easier. Columbia, for one, has just dropped SATs as a requirement for admissions. This makes it much that easier to gain admission for a kid who has solid grades, and a "hook" or "talent" of some sort but struggled on entrance exams.
I know. Wasn't sure if the original poster was counting Blair/St. Benedicts, as they are not NJSIAA. Wasn't sure if he was referring to geography or athletic association.