The House of Blue

I saw it to. Feel sorry for the kid if true.

No one likes to see injuries happen to anyone.

Yep, kid has/had NFL potential too. Really sad to see it happen on an individual basis, hopefully he makes a full recovery.

Confirmed now, torn ACL, done for the year. Goodness that dude has had some bad luck.

Not only that, but a tall and fast guy, unlike Rogers. Parker will still be a load, but this is easier for us now. Can focus Neloms on Parker, Rice on Rogers and have young dbs on young wr. But, as ALWAYS, this game will come down to the trenches. Go Cats!

They also had an experienced OL if i am not mistaken. which is EXTREMELY inexperienced this year. I like all of the talk being positive for them though, bc it was the opposite last year, hope the result does too.

He never did much for Clemson..his few years didnt live up to 4* status.

Found it interesting that he landed at UL only because his GPA dropped too low at UCONN.

Curious how he was able to graduate from an ACC school like Clemson in 3 years. Their standards are pretty high.

This was my mis info. I was only pointing out that they aren't like Bama or LSU on the OL, yet ppl are convinced that we are going to get hammered. Not the case, in a rivalary, sorry.

No they are not Bama or LSU but all of them except Benevides, who was still recovering from an injury, played against UK's returning DL last year. It will be a battle for sure and as we all know games are won and lost in the trenches. Only 3 weeks away!

My question is what type of degree was he pursuing? Even at UK a not so great school (by a guy who graduated from there) you had to have a 2.8 or 3.0 to even enter the Gatton undergrad school (a not so great business school from a guy who graduated from there). However this kid graduated from a school in 3 years with an apparent 2.4 GPA. The only thing I can think of was that Clemson was so wanting to get this guy off scholarship since he didn't want to be there or Clemson didn't want him to be there that they somehow let him graduate in 3 years. And one UL grad school program is pretty sad to be forced into letting someone with a 2.4 GPA into their program.

McNeal studied communication studies at Clemson so if he wanted to do a MA in Communications at UofL he would have to meet: "Applicants need an undergraduate degree in Communication or a related discipline, a 3.0 GPA on a four- point scale, and a 900 on the GRE. Provisional admission is possible for students with lower scores." (page 97)

And from page 8 of the same Graduate Catalog: "No applicant with a grade-point average of less than 2.50 will be admitted by a program to graduate study. Under unusual circumstances, programs that wish to admit students who do not meet this standard must submit a variance request to the Vice Provost for Graduate Affairs."

Page 11: "Academic Probation: Any graduate student with a point standing below 3.0 will be placed on academic probation until the student regains a 3.0 average or is dismissed. Students are ordinarily not permitted to continue on academic probation for more than one semester. Upon request of the student's graduate program, the unit dean may approve continuation beyond a single semester."

So if his 2.4 GPA is correct then they have admitted someone with less than a 2.5 GPA who will now have to keep a 3.0 or higher to remain in the grad school or be dismissed. Now we know why UConn wouldn't let him into grad school.

I don't mean to drag down a kid, but does this sound like an exceptional student who should be in grad school.