{"id":1033,"date":"2007-08-06T06:58:11","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T10:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2007-08-06T06:58:11","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T10:58:11","slug":"steve-spurriers-tantrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1033","title":{"rendered":"Steve Spurrier&#8217;s tantrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University of South Carolina football coach Steve&nbsp;Spurrier&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/gamecocks\/story\/138473.html\">wants the University of South Carolina to lower its admissions standards for football players to whatever the minimum is for NCAA athletes<\/a>. Steve, we&nbsp;might be more sympathetic to this ploy if South Carolina&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/web1.ncaa.org\/app_data\/inst2006\/648.pdf\">freshman graduation rate<\/a> for African-American football players entering in 1999-2000 were higher than 38% (compared with 58% for all African-American students at South Carolina entering in 1999-2000). Do you really want to bring students into USC to be educated or to be fodder for your glory?<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/margaretsoltan.phenominet.com\/2007\/08\/what-happens-when-sports-school-tells.html\">Margaret Soltan<\/a> has more.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of South Carolina football coach Steve&nbsp;Spurrier&nbsp;wants the University of South Carolina to lower its admissions standards for football players to whatever the minimum is for NCAA athletes. Steve, we&nbsp;might be more sympathetic to this ploy if South Carolina&#8217;s freshman graduation rate for African-American football players entering in 1999-2000 were higher than 38% (compared with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-gF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}