ACC Names Three Eagles To All Academic Football Team
by A.J Black on Feb 15, 2012 3:00 PM EST
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Today the ACC released the names of all the football players that were named to the 2011 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Football Team.
"Duke led all ACC schools with 18 selections, followed by Clemson and Wake Forest with 5 each, Georgia Tech and Maryland with 4 apiece; Boston College, Florida State and NC State with 3; Miami, North Carolina and Virginia Tech with two each, and Virginia with one."
In order to make the team the player needed to have not only a 3.0 GPA, but have to also carry a cumulative 3.0 GPA over their college career. The three Boston College players who made this year's All Academic Football Team were safety Hampton Hughes, wide receiver Bobby Swigert, and offensive lineman Emmett Cleary. Cleary was also named to the 2009 team. Hughes and Swigert are both first time honorees.
Kind of surprised only three Eagles made it, but maybe it's just the rigor of their academic program. Looking back at the history of the ACC All Academic team it appears that three is just around what BC usually places on the All Academic squad.
2010 -- 4 (Anthony Castonzo, Mark Herzlich, Nate Richman, Andre Williams)
2009 -- 4 (Steve Aponavicius, Castonzo, Cleary, Richman)
2008 -- 4 (Aponavicius, Castonzo, Montel Harris, Herzlich)
2007 -- 4 (Aponavicius, Castonzo, Herzlich, Nick Larkin)
Congratulations to Cleary, Hughes and Swigert!
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BC Should Go Strong and Fast After Danny O'Brien
I mean if lots of schools are chasing him, and we have 1 QB in Rettig?
WTF??
WTF??
O’Brien’s transfer was made official, the quarterback has already received significant interest from many schools. Mississippi, Arizona, South Florida and East Carolina are only some of the schools that have already shown serious interest. And the process is still in its early stages.
Can’t transfer within the ACC …
Can’t transfer to a team on Maryland’s future schedules …
Can’t transfer to Vanderbilt (just Edsall being Edsall, y’all)
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School release states Cleary made the team for the third straight season. What’s up with that?
Cleary, a senior biology major, was chosen to the All-ACC Academic team for the third straight season. Hughes, a junior management, leadership and marketing major, and Swigert, a sophomore economics major, are each first-time All-ACC Academic Team honorees.
http://www.bceagles.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/021512aaa.html
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http://www.theacc.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/021711aaa.html
Editor, BC Interruption
Duke had 18 and the nearest was 5? Give me a break. I bet there is an explanation for this unrelated to study habits and Duke’s lofty academic reputation. And the decline at BC to a tie with FSU is a legitimate point only because Spaz and GDF play up the academic/quality of kid disadvantaged card so often. And many of these guys are probably not even majoring in things like economics, finance, math or a science. Some of the majors at BC (and at many other liberal arts schools) are pathetically easy. A lot of players major in communications or education. I remember the starting nose tackle during my time telling me with a grin that his toughest course was a special ed lab where he had to teach retarded kids how to go bowling. Another excuse for Spaz flying out the window.
Fuki is on a tear!!!
BEWARE BI NATION!
I am hiding out deep in drug-infested TCU land.
If the FEDS get my stash of Black Cherry Soda and Australian Licorice, I will get banned here in 20 minutes or less.
I missed the last computer card for Volleyball Skills at BC 1973 my Junior Year!
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