Louisiana vs. Grambling: Attendance 28,866

[Turbine]

Sports attendance and sports comprehension should be required curriculum for all engineers.

If you can't 'engineer' a scoring drive, how are you going to survive in the real world?

[RaginScotsman]

SBC home team attendance:

Troy - 29,612. They had Boise, so good crowd.
Louisiana - 28,866. Awesome considering the weather. Would have been 30+ easily without the rain.
Georgia State - 23,088. If this is true, then that’s a great crowd for them. You could manually count the butts in the seats when they played at the Georgia Dome.
Arkansas State - 20,184. About average.
Georgia Southern - 15,260. Not great.
South Alabama - 13,457. Pretty bad as they hosted a CUSA opponent.
UL-Monroe - 10,137. You smell of lies, ULM. 4,000 or less actual.

[Just1More]

He didn’t say straight A or C’s..B or C which isn’t much of a difference. A lot of people get extra points in school for various things, not sure why you would hold that against someone. If the teachers gives extra points for going to a football game, give me the engineer who is smart enough to go get those easy extra points.

You don't give engineering students extra points for anything outside of engineering. If your Bs and Cs are explained by having a job, and some social focus, employers get a feel for if and what engineering you're suited for. I just wouldn't encourage an engineering student to slide on a B for a C. I'm an engineer... and I don't recall attending UL sports being a reason for my grades.

I don't even like the idea of giving any student, even someone in Kinesiology, "extra credit" for attending athletic events. I'm not a big fan of colleges being a social system in the classroom. Professors should be teaching from accredited textbooks (a broader subject for another day and time) and should know the subject matter and stick to it. What they think of anything else is irrelevant.

Knowing what I know of how pathetic our higher education system has drifted... has me taking your "extra credit" argument a little more serious than I'd otherwise.

[alum81]

He didn’t say straight A or C’s..B or C which isn’t much of a difference. A lot of people get extra points in school for various things, not sure why you would hold that against someone. If the teachers gives extra points for going to a football game, give me the engineer who is smart enough to go get those easy extra points.

How hard can it be to drive a train, its on tracks right.

[CajunJeaux]

If the teachers gives extra points for going to a football game, give me the engineer who is smart enough to go get those easy extra points.

An engineer who brings a common sense/practicality approach to designs...I like it...

[CajunJeaux]

How hard can it be to drive a train, its on tracks right.

LMAO!

[CrazyCajun]

You don't give engineering students extra points for anything outside of engineering. If your Bs and Cs are explained by having a job, and some social focus, employers get a feel for if and what engineering you're suited for. I just wouldn't encourage an engineering student to slide on a B for a C. I'm an engineer... and I don't recall attending UL sports being a reason for my grades.

I don't even like the idea of giving any student, even someone in Kinesiology, "extra credit" for attending athletic events. I'm not a big fan of colleges being a social system in the classroom. Professors should be teaching from accredited textbooks (a broader subject for another day and time) and should know the subject matter and stick to it. What they think of anything else is irrelevant.

Knowing what I know of how pathetic our higher education system has drifted... has me taking your "extra credit" argument a little more serious than I'd otherwise.

Regardless if we agree with it, it happens a lot and considering all the crap force fed down people’s throats from educators today..I’ll take going to a football game over some of the other crap that probably is given in exchange for extra credit.

[Just1More]

An engineer who brings a common sense/practicality approach to designs...I like it...

We had a professor at UL that taught Thermodynamics. He was Pakistani. The first day of class he challenged that if any student could beat him in tennis, he'd give them an A and they didn't have to attend class or take any exams. I got to know him and I asked him if anyone took him up on it... or better yet... beat him. He said, "I'm not that good... but I always beat young guys... they cannot help themselves but to hit the ball too hard. I just volley until they make a mistake... no one has ever beat me." I thought about getting a friend of mine on the UL tennis team to trash him as a joke. I already blew my cover... but I knew a guy in class Dr. Nourani wouldn't know from Adam. That's the only and last time I've ever heard of "a deal" or "extra credit" in engineering.

[Just1More]

How hard can it be to drive a train, its on tracks right.

I was in a plant one day a long time ago and a technician looked at me and said, "You hear that?" (a train was sounding the horn as it backed up into the plant). "A real engineer is about to enter the plant." Pretty funny stuff.

[Just1More]

Regardless if we agree with it, it happens a lot and considering all the crap force fed down people’s throats from educators today..I’ll take going to a football game over some of the other crap that probably is given in exchange for extra credit.

I hear ya. But while we give students "extra credit" for attending sports functions... those knot head professors are going to double down on their dumb opinion laden lectures.

Oh... Napier just called and said, "We won't need the students that need extra credit to attend football games... all of the seats will be taken by good students that want to be there."