Welp, 4-star RB Jordan Stevenson has been denied admission into UW. He was expected to join the team in the fall, but now has been released from his LOI. I'm not against high standards, I just believe that 1) standards should be the same for all schools, and B) UW could be gaining a reputation as liars, telling kids that they can get in and then ultimately denying them. The upsetting part of it is that one of the schools he is looking at is divisional rival Nebraska; nevermind another finalist being Oregon State. I'm sure Anderson would be grinning from ear to ear if he gets into Oregon State after being denied UW.

BSCR is alive and well! Didn't know you still patrolled these parts.

It wasn't an issue in the past because it wasn't an issue until Adele Brumfield became director of admission in 2010. She promptly eliminated in-person appeals for people denied admissions.

It is entirely possible that Stevenson dropped the ball, but I say that UW could be gaining a reputation as liars because this is at least the second time in less than a year that this has happened. Happened with Sam Madden last year, and I think that was the straw that broke Anderson's back. Admissions supposedly told Anderson and Madden what he had to do, and Madden got a 4.0 his last semester prior to the decision (fall 2014), but then was denied admissions (or at least told it was a long shot, and then he decommitted). I remember Anderson going off on that saying that UW told Madden what he had to do to get in, and Madden did exactly that, but they still denied him anyway. And Madden supposedly has some type of learning disability too. If that is in fact true, then it really paints UW admissions as liars.

And don't think that 100 other schools aren't going to bring this up when talking to kids. "Oh, you're looking at Wisconsin? They've told several kids they could get in but then denied them admission, and they had to scramble to find another school at the last minute. Do you want that to happen to you?" It could cost them kids that would be able to get in.

It's just insane that he was able to get into Nebraska and not Wisconsin. Given how much state funding has been cut from UW - and not just recently, but over the last decade, as I was told 1.5 years ago by people very high up in the business school that at that time less than 15% of the university's funding came from the state - UW will seek to bring in the kids that can pay the most. It is well known that it is harder for in-state kids to get into UW than out-of-state kids, and both of those are harder than international students. I had a number of international students in my MBA classes the last two years, and a majority of them had no business being in graduate level classes. They were the worst performers in the class, and they understood English just fine. So don't say that academic standards are applied to the non-athlete student body equally, because they are not.

And given how much funding has been cut, and how much revenue the football program brings in, it is also crazy that they are one of only two Big Ten schools (the other Illinois, but not the great academic institutions that are Northwestern and Michigan) that don't allow regular qualifiers. Force the kid to redshirt his freshman year and meet minimum grades. If he's really close, give him a chance, and if he blows it his first year then send him packing. But the profit from the football team funds a lot of things in the university; it's critical to the success of the school.

It's not like standardized tests are a foolproof indication of how well a student is going to do. I was slightly above average for my MBA class on the GMAT, but I came out with a 3.934 GPA (got two A/Bs because the profs didn't like me, apparently I challenged them too much, go figure), one of the top GPAs in my class. I did this because I worked harder than my classmates, and because being able to memorize and apply the properties of right triangles and proper sentence structure really doesn't correlate well with success in the business world.

Are you referring to the class that is true freshmen this year? It was barely a top-25 class (20-25) but that included Stevenson and Kafentzis. Losing those two was a big blow to the class ranking.

They only have seven players left from the recruiting class of 2012 (true SR/redshirt JR) and only 14 left from the class of 2013 (and have already lost five from the class of 2014). Injuries have really hurt those OL recruiting classes. Meador, Keeler, and Miller had their careers ended their freshman years by injury, and Gault (class of 2014) is no longer on the roster and may have quit football. I think they only have five scholarship OL who are above a Freshman class. They have five remaining scholarships for the class of 2016, and will probably need to fill with two more OL, one or two more RB, a CB, and maybe a WR.

The class of 2016 did move into the top 25 when they landed Garrett Rand, but it was because it included Williams. Now that Williams is gone...

Tanner McEvoy has made the Seahawks active roster as a WR, and Alex Ericson did the same with the Bengals.