How did he pass class?

Are you surprised???

"Hello.

Football is my life. I loves football...

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... the mind is a terrible thing. And it must be stopped..."

I recall an article about 10 years ago which discussed universities having to provide remedial classes for freshmen students who had graduated high school, but weren't up to college standards. This doesn't bode well for future generations!

For some, I agree, but skill positions and especially QB's, there's a sweet-spot in the scoring that is almost a guarantee of a super star...IF the other skills are present. I listened to a great interview with one of the writers about this a few months back and they went through a bunch of the star QB's and their scores and all were over a certain number (I forget what it was). Every single one below was mediocre or worse.

Seriously, the Wonderlic's a joke.  I would love to see a legitimate scientific study comparing Wonderlic results with results on the field...taking into account draft position, etc.  I have nothing to back it up, but my guess is that higher Wonderlic scores would have little to no correlation with performance on the field.  

I'd take Claiborne in the Top 10 without blinking an eye.  The guy's a stud.

Dan Patrick made a great point...players are going to start boycotting the test.  Why take it?  

Dan Marino=16.  Terry Bradshaw=15.  A.J. Green=10.  (I'd have drafted all three)  

btw, Marino was the 6th QB drafted in 1983...makes ya wonder if other teams were put off by his low Wonderlic.  (sure, Elway and Kelly were excellent QBs, but Blackledge, Eason, and O'Brien, not so much)

He took advantage of tutors and University learning resources to help with his learning disability.

tragic that all these people are judging without knowing ALL the facts!

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/Morris-Claiborne-NFL-draft-LSU-Wonderlic-score-040312

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I don't see any real correlation between the test and playing.  Granted the test is easy (I think my daughter in fourth grade has had question #3), but I'm not sure what purpose it serves other than to embarrass the players who score low.  I would argue that spatial recognition tests and pattern recognition tests would probably be more applicable.

Does he REALLY need to know what 3 pads at .21 cents a piece equals when he's covering an out route to the back shoulder???????  For every knock down or interception he should throw up a 6-3 sign and yell " That's 63 cents beotch!!!!!".  That would be funny.  

One thing to consider here...the questions are not all rocket science, indeed. But what most people forget is there is a timed component. You have 12 minutes to answer 50 mc questions. Slower readers, or those with a reading disability, will be affected by this...even more so if the questions are on the computer.

No comment on a specific individual one way or the other, and the test is used in a LOT of different jobs/fields, but like any standardized testing, there are some folks for whom it is difficult for other reasons than "low IQ".

It has nothing to do with how he'll perform as a player however to give the kid a college degree is a disgrace to all those who actually earned their degrees.

I understand that it's because of football programs that universities can have nice facilities and equipment but let's stop kidding ourselves here.  Just start paying the players to play and don't make them take classes.  It's obvious a lot of them are not anyway.

He got 4 out of 50. Maybe he did get those questions right. And some don't pass their classes. Many don't graduate. So what? What's the point? I see what looks like track and field in your profile pic. Do you think colleges would have money for good track and field programs if it weren't for the major sports bringing in lots of money? I'm not saying it's right, but it's the system the NCAA has built.

Part of the test design IS pattern recognition--meaning, do you recognize the pattern of "If X costs Y, and you have Z quantity, how much is it worth"? The math itself isn't necessarily difficult, it's the idea of recognizing the pattern and knowing which solution fits it.

There's more to the design of the test than listing 50 relatively easy questions on a page/screen.

I think most teams were put off by the fact that Marino was a coke head.

trav

^^^ this

I am sorry I read the ESPN article instead which said nothing about him leaving school.  I do not feel the need to obsessivly read each article about yet another college athelete with limited intellectual skills.  I sit next to them in class enough.