Even garbage schools provide a solid education if one wishes to receive it. My undergrad was ECSU / Wesleyan. I needed ECSU to learn how to write a proper paper, and had several phenomenal professors there. At Wesleyan, there was an entirely different standard, and I had to drop track and field. But, I had a better grounding in historical facts from ECSU than Wesleyan.
First, glad there are parents of D1 basketball recruits that really care about education. AK is in good hands.
In the article previously linked in this thread
Yes. He's a triple major (wow).
I was also an English major. Bruce Cohen was probably my favorite professor.
It's underrated, but the experience of it is really quite valuable. He's there in front of a microphone answering questions live on TV. He has to perform in front of huge crowds. He's plenty smart, but what you learn in any classroom doesn't compare with what he's learning now (and he's in the classroom anyway). The poise under pressure, composure will prepare him well.
Here's the story about it. I ran into someone in town yesterday whose son is good friends with Karaban. He said Alex told him that ultimately he picked UConn because he loved Hurley. Said he is, "Nuts, but in a good way." Lol
But the AK that would eventually help UConn to a national championship needed an OK from OK — his mother, Olga Karaban — before making a commitment to coach Dan Hurley and the Huskies in the summer of 2021. Alex loved his visit to the Storrs campus and was sold, almost immediately. Olga Karaban was skeptical, though, having learned all about basketball from the Huskies’ staff but next to nothing about the education her son might receive.
“We saw all the facilities, talked to coaches, went to eat, came home,” Olga said in August, sitting on a couch in the family’s living room next to Alexei. “Alex was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, I feel like this is what I want. It felt right when I stepped on the court.’ I'm sitting there, just quiet. He was like, ‘This is great!’ And I'm not saying anything. He said, ‘What do you think?' I said, ‘Everything is great but I'm not impressed with academics because I didn't hear anything about it.’”
Karaban called Hurley and said, “My mom’s not happy.”
What followed was a furious final recruiting phase for which Hurley brought an entire team together. It wasn’t a basketball team. Hurley asked athletic director David Benedict for help coordinating, and UConn sent a car service back to Northborough to pick up the Karabans for a return visit a week later.
Radenka Maric — today UConn president and then the university’s vice president for research, innovation, and entrepreneurship — was among the lead presenters. Engineering professors were gathered. Curriculums and potential career paths were discussed. UConn flexed every fiber of every academic muscle that the university’s rising national reputation is built on.
“It was the worst for Alex because we had to go through all the academic buildings,” Olga said. “We went to the engineering center, and they were showing crazy stuff. It was actually interesting, at least for me. For you, too, right?”
How UConn became home for men's basketball's budding star Alex Karaban: 'He's very happy'
Alex Karaban, a computer science major, led UConn in playing time as a freshman as the Huskies won a national championship.www.nhregister.com
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How UConn became home for men's basketball's budding star Alex Karaban: 'He's very happy'
And he's taking 6 classes this semester. And playing D1 basketball. He has to be smart and well organized to do all this.
Last public announcement was he had a 3.5 GPA. Thought it was posted somewhere he's on track to complete his education in his third year. Probably the most compelling argument in the discussion about whether Karaban is coming back next season. The mother requirement is very strong for Alex.
LOL - that’s a good one!
He said he’ll come back and finish later if he decides to leave. Wants to maximize the financial upside of basketball as his first priority, which he claims his parents understand.
Both are true, stats say on average it is more about where you apply (shows quality of student/aptitude) vs where you go. However if you want to end up a CEO/CFO of a major corporation or say Supreme Court justice then the Ivy league GREATLY influences a higher likelihood of the very top 1% of 1% outcomes.
Very true, but the person who owned the company hiring the lawyer was probably from an Ivy....that network is hard to beat...maybe only outdone by West Point or Annapolis.
You're neglecting his semester RS....so he's been on campus for 5 semesters, technically in his 3rd year..plus summer school classes...My guess is he's probably very close to graduating after this semester.
Sure, especially locally. But it isn't that way everywhere. Being a UT grad matters a lot in Austin. Being a Kansas grad matters a lot in KC. Being a Georgia grad matters a lot in Atlanta. They don't have the local competition UConn does.
Kansas City is in Missouri.
I heard Kansas is working on a Missouri City to get back at Missouri for having the better Kansas City!
If you can play they will find you and draft you. Santa Clara, Belmont, Furman, Eastern Michigan, Pepperdine all had kids drafted last year. If they can send scouts to the Congo they can send them to Princeton, NJ.
I am aware. The metro spans both states. I worked downtown for a time. The metro area has more KU grads than Mizzou grads.
