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Johnny Football - One of a kind

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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Johnny Manziel admitted it Monday night. He's not taking any classes in College Station this semester.

But that's no reason for Kevin Sumlin to faint or for Kirby Smart to relax.

At the Davey O'Brien Award dinner, the redshirt freshman who also won the Heisman Trophy said he's enrolled in four courses in sports management at Texas A&M.

He's just taking all of them online.

Of course. Brilliant. How else is he going to show up at Mardi Gras, the Super Bowl and the NBA All-Star Weekend and stay eligible to take a run at defending his Heisman and winning a national title?

Can't get your picture taken grinning that cat-ate-the-canary grin alongside Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel, Megan Fox and the Duck Dynasty guys sitting in a classroom in Texas.

Given what he did on the field last season as Johnny Football and what he's done since during his Johnny America tour of late-night television talk shows and major sporting events, Manziel is well on his way to earning another title.

Greatest student-athlete ever.

Has any college athlete in history done more in a shorter period of time and enjoyed it more?

He's not the only quarterback in NCAA history to run for 20-plus touchdowns in a single season and throw for 20-something more, although it doesn't take long to call the roll for that class.

Tim Tebow. Cam Newton. Colin Kaepernick. Manziel. That's all, folks.

He's also not the only current SEC quarterback to date a model. AJ McCarron and Katherine Webb say hi.


Johnny Manziel poses with two of the stars of Duck Dynasty in New Orleans during Super Bowl week 2013.
But this latest bit of Manziel news may be the greatest.

Think about it. Manti Te'o, the former Notre Dame linebacker and Heisman runner-up, had an online girlfriend. Manziel, the Heisman winner, now has an online academic career.

Before you jump to the conclusion that both are frauds, know this: The NCAA has no problem with online courses. There's even a section in the Division I manual - Bylaw 14.1.7.2.6 - that covers them. They're within the rules provided they meet four conditions:

(a) The course is available to any student at the institution;
(b) The student-athlete enrolls in the course in the same manner as is available to any student;
(c) Enrollment in the course occurs within the institution's regular enrollment periods (pre-registration or drop-add period) in accordance with the institution's academic calendar and applicable policies
and procedures; and
(d) The course is conducted during the institution's regular academic schedule (term time) in accordance with the institution's academic calendar and applicable policies and procedures.

Not long after taking over as NCAA president, before presiding over one foul-up after another - without his knowledge, of course; promoting an atmosphere of compliance is a coach's job - Mark Emmert offered his two cents on the subject.

"We can't ban online courses because they can be an important educational experience," Emmert said. "Some are appropriate and some are not. It comes down to an issue of quality control.

"There really are some fabulous online programs, but the intention of those programs is rarely to supplant what happens on the campus, but rather to augment it or deal with students who can't get to campus."

Is Manziel too famous for campus? He said Monday night that he'd been enrolled in an on-campus English class this semester but attended the class once "and it kind of turned into more of a big deal than I thought."

Let me get this straight. Cam Newton is spending more time on campus at Auburn this semester than Manziel is at Texas A&M? Nice.

You have to appreciate Manziel as so much more than the quarterback who did more damage to the dominant Alabama defense than anyone since Newton. At every turn, the Big Man Off Campus exposes the NCAA's Cro-Magnon notion of amateur athletics for the lie that it is.

He's a celebrity and he knows it. Texas A&M is getting richer because of him. Might as well soak up all the extra benefits he can.

At least the ones that won't get him declared ineligible. He has to spend one more season as a "student-athlete" before he can trade the hypocrisy of the NCAA for the honesty of the NFL.

Until then? Go, Johnny, go. Date the model. Crash the Masters, the Final Four and the NBA Finals. Seize the day.
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another example of how the athlete trumps the student, and the NCAA is the great master of fraud....
 
they should take the elite students from aTm and parade them around the talk shows..tell of what their future holds for them.... I am sure it will do us more good than ANY football player...

that was my point
 
Well they don't parade them around like a Heisman but nobody else ever does either. But they are there.


Texas A&M Ranks Among Top 10 Universities in Enrollment of New National Merit Scholars

COLLEGE STATION, Jan. 27, 2011—Texas A&M University continues to rank among the country's top 10 institutions in enrollment of new National Merit Scholars—and is tops in Texas and second nationally among all public universities, according to tabulations compiled from the newly released annual report of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

The report shows that 177 of these nationally recognized high-achieving students are members of Texas A&M's freshman class. Overall, the university's student body includes more than 500 National Merit Scholars, officials estimate.

The top-10 list this year is headed for the first time by the University of Chicago, followed by Harvard, which had been ranked first for many years. Other institutions ranking among the top 10 are (in order) University of Southern California, Northwestern University, University of Oklahoma, Yale University, Washington University (St. Louis), Princeton University and Vanderbilt University.

Texas A&M Ranks Among Top 10 Universities in Enrollment of New National Merit Scholars COLLEGE STATION, Jan. 27, 2011—Texas A&M University continues to rank among the country's top 10 institutions in enrollment of new National Merit Scholars—and is tops in Texas and second nationally among all public universities, according to tabulations compiled from the newly released annual report of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. The report shows that 177 of these nationally recognized high-achieving students are members of Texas A&M's freshman class. Overall, the university's student body includes more than 500 National Merit Scholars, officials estimate. The top-10 list this year is headed for the first time by the University of Chicago, followed by Harvard, which had been ranked first for many years. Other institutions ranking among the top 10 are (in order) University of Southern California, Northwestern University, University of Oklahoma, Yale University, Washington University (St. Louis), Princeton University and Vanderbilt University.
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two thumbs up....but the problem is getting high school kids to idolize these scholars, and not the jocks....
 

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