And that thorn would be grades. GRADES! In high school! That's what's keeping Rockhurst's Michael Rose on the sidelines for the first six weeks of the season. Why is this important? Well obviously the first reason is that Rockhurst's first game of the season is against Hutchinson. But also, Rose is a 4-star linebacker who is headed to Nebraska next year (****correction, he's actually a Junior this year****). That is HUGE.
Even on teams like Hutch you rarely have a solid DI guy on your team. Even a stud like Josh Smith had to walk-on at Kansas (which I think was a stupid decision by Turner Gill to not give the kid a scholarship, but I digress). That's why this could be a big deal. With Rose on the sidelines does that detract from the game itself?
I'm wondering what's going through Randy Dreiling's head (actually I wonder that every day because it's a stream of hilarity in my brain)? I know he is definitely NOT thinking 'Oh wow, thankfully that kid is out, I didn't want to play against him anyway!' Yeah that's not Coach Dreiling's style. If anything I think Coach is quite a bit pissed off that that kid didn't take care of his life in the classroom and now it's possible that Rockhurst could pull the 'Well yeah we lost but one of our best players wasn't in the game.' Randy Dreiling is a competitor. He'd love to have every single player on Rockhurst's team be division one scholarship guys just so he could beat them and prove (yet again) that Hutch is a power to be reckoned with.
It will bug me if Hutch ends up winning and someone, anyone, with Rockhurst tries to make the excuse of Rose not being in the game. I'm not saying they will, this is simply hypothetical. I believe every team is only as good as the last player they have sitting on the bench. And if that's true...well, Rockhurst is pretty damn good with Rose riding the pine.
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Brilliant. I wonder what Bo Pelini thinks of this? If this kid can't pass high school classes, Nebraska might have to go under the table to give him college grades.
On the other hand, high school at Rockhurst is probably academically superior to college at Nebraska anyway. He'll do fine in college.
Just to clear things up because I'm familiar with the situation, Rose's semester grades are OK. These are the grades that colleges look at on transcripts. His 4th quarter grades were less than a 2.0 which is the minimum requirement at Rockhurst to play a sport. Let's also keep in mind that Rockhurst is not your run of the mill high school. There are high academic standards at that school. So, that being said, he will be fine at Nebraska.
You do realize Rose is only a Junior so he won't be heading to Nebraska for another two years, right? You mentioned he would be there next year...wrong!
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