How many are academically qualified to get into a UC?

My guess at best is only a few if any.

https://courses.campbell.edu/content.php?catoid=3&navoid=175

This would explain why these athletes were still available.

It will be interesting to see how many stay in a small town, tiny school and stadium.

I would bet that if they can get the grades they will leave in a heartbeat!

Your link and references lose me. Are you implying they wouldn't get in anywhere else? The **** had 27 offers and decommitted from Arkansas.

No, I am not saying all of these ranked athletes weren't academically qualified. I am saying I bet most were not qualified for many D1 schools at this time. Either they didn't have all the coursework completed in high school, high enough SAT or ACT scores, or high enough GPA. I am thinking many of them didn't
qualify for many of the school's academic requirements so they chose this school, as they could get accepted there, and satisfy the requirements to move on next year.

How they did it.

“Our No. 1 goal for ’22 was to have the No. 1 recruiting class,” said Minter, who played 10 professional seasons with the Carolina Panthers. “We started it out in January ’21 and we said that’s our No. 1 goal. So everybody focused on that. We didn’t focus on anything else, which meant that we were going to have to do a lot of research....

"Minter accomplished that goal through a combination of his salesmanship and assembling an aggressive staff that includes fellow NFL alumni Pat White, Reggie Howard and Dee Brown...."

Aggressive future schedule, and all FBS schedule during Covid (TV games).

https://nsjonline.com/article/2022/02/minter-campbell-land-fcss-top-recruiting-class/

Sales and results are two different things, but it sounds like if he coaches that team up, they've got the talent to take off quickly.

Remember S. Alabama? They took it to us their first year. Campbell sounds a bit like them.

USA could play. That was a good game too. Also, one of the best tailgates I could remember, their fans were great. All about watching good football, and one of them was of course originally from Mobile but had moved out to Oakland where he owned a soul food restaurant. Wonder if he's still going strong.

Yeah that was a fun tailgate

It seems like Sacramento has more soul food places than Oakland. Any recommendations?

i remember their fans knew more about our team than we did!

I clearly remember a quote like ‘you all have some good players but you all need some more brothers’ Very enlightened!

I also remember they had a HUGE semi with tesm colors that drove cross country with their gear! They were way ahead of us financially, despite playing a mostly JC schedule

Not PC, and not the first time it's been said.

Inside Campbell's No 1 Recruiting Class

https://footballscoop.com/news/recruiting-nfl-mike-minter-deion-sanders-coach-prime-campbell-camels

ESPN story on Campbell:
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/33323417/how-campbell-small-fcs-school-north-carolina-competing-deion-sanders-fbs-teams

Campbell is kind of out in the boom docks. They had football many years ago then dropped it. I have been on campus once for a wind ensemble concert I am in (Aggie band-uh alum). The buildings are all very new and quite nice. They have started a law school and a PA school. It is private and nominally Baptist (of some sort). Evidently they have some big donors and big ambitions. I pretty sure academic qualifications are very secondary for athletics (especially football). From what I have watched, they have some flash from some individuals but as a team were only 2-5 in Big South conference, not one of the stronger ones. I see them maybe having a flash in the pan year at some point but nothing sustainable.

The thread that wouldn't die

New catch phrase, "So, what's going on with Campbell?"

Story can’t figure out if they are football or soccer.
I think the story was written by artificial intelligence.

https://sportsnewest.com/2022/02/23/it-helps-being-the-camels-inside-college-footballs-most-unlikely-recruiting-success-story/