Mon point de vue provient d'un article de Pat Hickey (Montreal Gazette) publié en 2011, portant spécifiquement sur les supposés standards académiques plus élevés de McGill. L'article en tant que tel n'est plus disponible sur le site de la Gazette, mais j'avais garder le texte. C'est loin d'être la première fois que je mentionnes cet article, comme le prouve ces liens vers des sujets de ce site :
http://www.allezlesbleus.ca/p/forum.html#nabble-td34268|a34358
http://www.allezlesbleus.ca/p/forum.html#nabble-td10627i40|a10760
http://www.allezlesbleus.ca/p/forum.html#nabble-td2069|a2071
Voici le texte de l'article (j'ai mis en gras les passages sur les standards) :
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Standing Pat: No excuse for football Redmen
By Pat Hickey, The Gazette October 14, 2011
MONTREAL - There's a football game scheduled for Molson Stadium Saturday afternoon, but it's a university game, and that means there's no need for a reserved bus lane on University St. or extra police directing traffic at Pine and Park Sts.
The only possible disruption on the stroll up the mountain will be from picketers representing the overworked, underpaid and underappreciated McGill support staff. (Full disclosure: my wife, Joan, who is a nurse at the McGill Student Health Centre, will be one of the picket-bearing strikers).
There will be a larger than usual turnout because this is Homecoming Week and the Redmen play the fifth-ranked University of Montreal Carabins, who will descend from the other side of Mount Royal for a victory party.
McGill football is largely irrelevant these days, and the futility was reflected in the numbers when head coach Sonny Wolfe opted for early retirement this week. The Montreal native, who had some very good seasons as head coach of the Acadia Axemen, leaves McGill with an overall record of 3-36. Under his tenure, the Redmen were winless in 2007, 2008 and 2010, and they are 0-6 going into Saturday's game.
"I'm not a quitter," Wolfe said as he exited stage left.
Wolfe added that he was doing what was best for the McGill program, and he did display some loyalty to defensive coordinator Clint Uttley, who will get a chance to audition for the head coach job.
But Wolfe also lent credence to
the myth that Old McGill has trouble competing because its academic standards are "very different" than its competition.
Really?
Somehow, 33,000 students met McGill's standards, and that group included enough hockey players for both the Redmen and the Martlets to advance to the CIS championships, with the women winning the national title.
Bishop's University, which has 1,740 full-time students, beat McGill 23-18 this season, and you might think it's because Bishop's doesn't have those same high standards. But a look at the
McGill website indicates that a core R score of 22 and an overall R score of 25.7 will get you into the education program. Prospective teachers need an R score of 26 to even be considered at Bishop's.
The bottom line is that the McGill football program should take a look at its recruiting. Does it make full use of the fact the school is very attractive to U.S. students with its relatively low tuition? How about asking the alumni to give a hand at spotting prospective student athletes?
And does McGill do enough to mine the talent-rich French CEGEP programs?
Once upon a time, McGill attracted some of the top francophone talent in the province, but it now finds itself competing against the high-powered corporate-backed programs at Laval, Montreal and Sherbrooke.
For example,
14 of the players on the Carabins roster attend Hautes études commerciales, UdeM's very good business school with academic standards that rival those at McGill.
You have to wonder whether anyone at McGill tried to recruit those players by explaining that their chances of becoming a multinational CEO would be improved if they honed their English skills?
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Le plywood reste à Laval !
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