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That's too bad, he seems like a good kid. Hopes he gets everything straightened out.

I'm sure I'll get some slack for this, but it wouldn't be the first time. Some of the blame for Mingo's academic performance has to be put on Coach Bergeron. As a former student-athlete back in my day we were held to standards in the classroom. Our coach made sure that we had above a 3.0 or we had to do 6+ hours of study tables a week. He kept in contact with our professors and had the ability to see our academic standing throughout the semester. Bergeron was even quoted as saying they knew about his academic struggles in the past, why not enforce some study table hours until the kid proves he's serious about his studies? All "trolling" aside I think its something that fans should think about. I'm not calling for his job, or saying he's a bad coach, just don't want fans to be blind about the issue.

I agree with IBleedOrangeAndBrown. Seems like it should have been closely monitored to the point in which he's not close to potentially being ineligible.

It has been closely monitored since he arrived here, but the coaches can't do the work for him. At some point a player/student has to take responsibility for their education if they truly want it. College isn't for everyone and this might be the case for Dajon. He has some big decisions to make soon. Truly hope he sticks around, but wouldn't blame him if he didn't.

Falcon Fanatic wrote:It has been closely monitored since he arrived here, but the coaches can't do the work for him. At some point a player/student has to take responsibility for their education if they truly want it. College isn't for everyone and this might be the case for Dajon. He has some big decisions to make soon. Truly hope he sticks around, but wouldn't blame him if he didn't.

That's a very important thing to remember: nobody can do the work for him. Study tables are simply a time where the player shows up and is supposed to study. But, there are dozens of other athletes there at the same time doing study tables, so nobody is going to look over your shoulder and make sure you aren't surfing Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc., when you should be studying.

I agree with you guys about Dajon needing to take his studies more seriously. However, I know when I played sports they had people inside the study tables monitoring students and if you were caught on those type of sites you could be banned for the day. That meant you had to find another time to get your hours in. If you didn't fulfill your full six hours you were punished in practice. I think more measures could have been in place to prevent this from happening, but I get that Dajon has got to want to make a change as well. This is on both the coaching staff and the player. He's a good kid, hopefully he can get things worked out.

BGSUFanatic7 wrote:I agree with IBleedOrangeAndBrown. Seems like it should have been closely monitored to the point in which he's not close to potentially being ineligible.

Since he *came in* ineligible (sitting out 2011-2012 as a non-qualifier), and also missed the Union series this year for academics...doubtful that monitoring is the issue.

Sorry to hear this news, and hope he stays in school.

The good news is that the hockey team's multi-year Academic Progress Rate was 968 (as of July 2013). Not up there with Women's Golf and Tennis, but better than Men's Football, BB, and Soccer...
http://bgsufalcons.com/news/2013/6/11/G ... 33912.aspx

He was clearly very close to being ineligible for next semester heading into this semester. A few bad grades and the staff as well as Dajon had to have known this would happen. This is not something that just came out of no where. More should have been done. If he wasn't doing work, he should not have been playing. Missing the first series of the year isn't really a significant punishment in my opinion.

BGSUFanatic7 wrote:He was clearly very close to being ineligible for next semester heading into this semester. A few bad grades and the staff as well as Dajon had to have known this would happen. This is not something that just came out of no where. More should have been done. If he wasn't doing work, he should not have been playing. Missing the first series of the year isn't really a significant punishment in my opinion.

We don't know the whole story but I do agree there's only so much the coaches can do to help him, its up to Dajon to put in the work needed to pass his courses. I agree that not playing him would have been a proper message to send to him but we also don't know if the coaches were receiving regular updates on his grades. Regardless, I hope he decides to work harder and stay in school, I know I saw my fair share of kids who packed up and left once they reached academic warning or worse.

jpfalcon09 wrote:

BGSUFanatic7 wrote:He was clearly very close to being ineligible for next semester heading into this semester. A few bad grades and the staff as well as Dajon had to have known this would happen. This is not something that just came out of no where. More should have been done. If he wasn't doing work, he should not have been playing. Missing the first series of the year isn't really a significant punishment in my opinion.

We don't know the whole story but I do agree there's only so much the coaches can do to help him, its up to Dajon to put in the work needed to pass his courses. I agree that not playing him would have been a proper message to send to him but we also don't know if the coaches were receiving regular updates on his grades. Regardless, I hope he decides to work harder and stay in school, I know I saw my fair share of kids who packed up and left once they reached academic warning or worse.

If hockey is so important to him that being suspended due to academics may possibly make him want to quit school entirely, then suspending him voluntarily because his grades were poor and he was close to the eligibility mark would have probably also caused him to pack up and leave.