top academic sport colleges

[wayneandgarth]

<p>I would say:

1. Stanford
2. Notre Dame
3. Michigan
4. Texas
5. UCLA
6. USC
7. Duke
8. North Carolina
9. Wisconsin
10. Virginia</p>

[k_amp_s]

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Duke is great at basketball and academically, but not football. </p>

<p>Stanford is good all around.</p>

<p>Vandy and Northwestern are bad at sports but great academically.

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<p>Eh?</p>

<p>Vandy is usuall pretty good at BB and their FB program seems to be on the rise w/ its best recruiting class ever (thanks to some killer new FB facilities).</p>

<p>Northwestern is the only school of the 4 that has gone to the postseason in FB and BB for the past 4 years in a row.</p>

<p>As for academics, while Duke, overall, is top tier; for it’s revenue sports, the academic requirements for its recruits is closer to that of state schools than Northwestern or Stanford (we’re talking BB players w/ 18 ACT scores and 1/3 of the FB team only needing to meet the minimum NCCA requirements).</p>

<p>Stanford generally has kept its academic standards for recruits up, but ever since Harbaugh was coach of the FB team, Stanford has played an ugly game w/ FB recruits - rejecting lower rated FB recruits for “academics” (when they clearly had the academics) so that there would be slots available for higher rated recruits (often w/ lower academics); frankly, this type of practice stinks of the SEC.</p>

[Sparkeye7]

<p>

Starting with top 50 Directors’ Cup Sports Final Rankings for 2009-10</p>

<p>Overall Ranking/College Name/Directors Cup/USNWR/Average Ranking
1 Stanford 1 5 3
2 Duke 10 9 10
3 Virginia 3 25 14
4 UCLA 4 25 15
5 UC Berkeley 9 22 16
6 Princeton 32 2 17
7 USC 13 23 18
8 North Carolina 7 30 19
9 Notre Dame 27 19 23
10 Michigan 25 29 27
11 Florida 2 53 28
12 Penn State 11 47 29
13 Texas 15 45 30
14 Northwestern 50 12 31
15 Ohio State 8 56 32

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<p>Very nice!! But why 2009-2010 season not the more recent 2010-2011 season, in which TOSU finished as #2 in the nation!? Well, with Gordon Gee at the helm in terms of academics, Urban Meyer coaching the football and Thad Matta for basketball, I see tOSU move into the Top-10 if not Top-5 academic sport college by decade end. :D</p>

[phantasmagoric]

<p>

Stanford has played an ugly game w/ FB recruits - rejecting lower rated FB recruits for “academics” (when they clearly had the academics) so that there would be slots available for higher rated recruits (often w/ lower academics); frankly, this type of practice stinks of the SEC.

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<p>Do you have any real evidence for this? Even under Harbaugh, Stanford’s players still do well in the All-Academic Teams.</p>

<p>[Stanford</a> Football Recruits Corner the ‘Smart’ Market - WSJ.com](<a href=“http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704364004576132503526250500.html]Stanford”>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704364004576132503526250500.html)</p>

[par72]

<p>Stanford and Duke for national universities. Holy Cross, Davidson, Williams, and Amherst for LAC’s.</p>

[iman123194]

<p>For private: Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, USC, Notre Dame, Georgetown, Wake Forest, Boston College, UMiami, and maybe Johns Hopkins (for Lax only)</p>

<p>For public: UCLA, Cal, Michigan, UVa, UNC, Wisconsin, UT, Washington, and Illinois</p>

[andrewt787]

<p>I’d say:</p>

<p>Stanford, Northwestern, Duke, USC, Michigan, UT Austin and UNC.</p>