Scott Frost on Maurice Washington: “He won’t play this week. I don’t see him being a part of our plans in the immediate future.”

This will be frowned upon, however, knowing a mediocre amount about SAT/ACT test scores and percentile ranks to get into D-I/D-II colleges, which is dependent upon a sliding scale when comparing it to your GPA in high school....

That being out of the way, I know firsthand the inner-workings of educational institutions from childhood developmental centers to graduate schools of study from an administrator’s standpoint. Let me be blunt, elite athletes, from 9th-12th grade, have different and lower standards of accountability and responsibility in regards to behavior and academic expectations. It takes significantly more effort to fail than to give the absolute minimal and be held back or not graduate at all. Many do not believe this, however, ask around.....

That being said, and remaining cognizant of the NCAA requirements for D-I and D-II athletes in regards to HS GPA and ACT/SAT sliding eligibility requirements to participate in the BIG 10, an ACT composite score ranging between 11-20 is required, dependent upon HS GPA. Let me put that composite ACT score range in perspective...

ACT composite score: 11, 1st %ile ACT composite score: 20, 52nd %ile

His academic career behavior spanning a multitude of different high schools across many states, and to what might now be former UNL college days paints a picture of a young man who has always been athletically gifted and been able to utilize that for any academic or behavioral deficiencies.

I would surmise, based upon academic difficulties documented by all the Nebraska blowhards when he initially committed, this kid has struggled in the world of academia since early elementary school, but as able to get people to not focus on that by displaying his gifted athletic ability. I base this upon all information available through news media and on social media outlets, connections to the university currently, and seeing eerily similar events firsthand in the 90’s glory days. By taking that firsthand former knowledge of how the elite athletes are courted initially, then enabled to a significant degree through top-notch academic tutoring (or it could be seen as thinking, so the athlete doesn’t have to), and when all this negatively reinforced behavior finally spills over to the local news stations, and people start to hear about it.....that’s when intervention starts and it makes no sense whatsoever.

I will stop here, and simply say, if the struggle to become eligible for college sports were legit when he came to the Huskers and not a socioeconomic or societal issue.......then that would indicate he would have struggled for well over a decade academically speaking, and when you think of that in terms of 8 hrs/day for 170+ days/year.......it is without question that such difficulty for that period of time would cause mental health issues and behavioral concerns.

I only say all of this because I witnessed these things firsthand in the 90’s during the dominant years, and having a career in neuropsychology for the past 20+ years has provided me a little insight into why people act the way they do.

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