APR'S OUT...AND EVERYONE PASSES!

Thanks for taking up this issue and for the link!

One clarification: The Dodd article is about last year’s APR. I linked to it to show the source material for my attempt to update the top ten list.

It’s funny you should mention OSU, though. Cheatypants’s boys managed to jump from 870 to exactly 925 in just one year. In a just world, the NCAA squad cars would be heading east on I-70 right now to open the academic fraud investigation, just as a precautionary measure.

For those of you who don’t want to read through the whole thread, the other travishamockery is that fifty-three I-A and I-AA schools missed the alleged “cut line” of 925 but were given a limited-purpose mulligan based on something called a “squad size adjustment.” Without the mulligans, over 40% of Division I football schools would have flunked. As it stands, the NCAA is patting itself on the back for sanctioning nine Division I-A schools — all of which, conveniently, are non-BCS.

From what I heard on the radio, Bama’s football program passed with flying colors. Now, I love the Tide, but I’m not stupid. Has the NCAA realized that to slay the sacred cow that is SEC football would be a horrible business decision? Somthing smells foul in Denmark, but if it means the Pac-10 gets slapped around and the SEC gets out clean, I can be down with that.

Just corrected the whole thing, DevilGrad.

Wow, talk about a need for a NSFW link!

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’Bama is one of the fifty-three schools that missed the 925 cut line but got to skate on current sanctions because of the “squad size adjustment.”

As Bobby Knight said back in Eighties, “It looks like the NCAA is so mad at Kentucky that they’re going to put Cleveland State on probation.”

BTW, you SECers should take note of Auburn’s score. It surprised the hell out of me.

aah, messed it up: Chip in for her to be at Blogfest ’06 at UGA?

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You know the guys over at BGS are going to have a field day with this…..

Auburn had the highest score in the SEC and was up there with Harvard, Notre Dame, Navy etc.

The football programs to receive public recognition by the NCAA were: Auburn, Boston College, Brown, Bucknell, Colgate, William & Mary, Cornell, Dartmouth, Davidson, Duke, Eastern Kentucky, Furman, Harvard, Lafayette, Princeton, Navy, Dayton, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Villanova, Wofford, Yale.

But the real question is: is Auburn accredited this year?

I just have to point out that Auburn players doing well in class is like saying that Uncle Rico is dominating the 10 and under football league. Come on, I know non-athletes that got in with sub-900 SAT scores. Of course their athletes are doing well; they’re probably in the top 15% on campus.

“…but the real tragedy was that 15 hadn’t been colored yet.” – Steven Orr

Jealousy is so beneath you all. Put down the Haterade and bask in the academic bastion that is Auburn U.

I don’t know much about the APR, but from what I can remember some of the rules are pretty borderline retarded. Specifically schools being punished when players transfer and graduate from a different school is one.

Academic bastard, maybe…bastion, not so much.

Frankly you probably have to be a statistics undergrad major and a Harvard law graduate to even begin to understand what you read on that NCAA link. I mean, understanding the federal budget is simpler than the fine print on those pages.

Here’d be a good gallup poll question for fans of Div 1A schools:

If your team competes for your conference championships, occassionally wins one, and plays in major bowl games, do you give a shit whether the kids graduate or not?

Myles Brand and his boys are pathetic and spineless. I don’t wanna pick on OSU (ok, maybe i do), but c’mon. Like Devilgrad said, they improve over 50 points in one year and get EXACTLY the bottom line. Everyone in america knows what’s really happening over there, i mean Sweatervest has investigator’s cellies on speed-dial. why even have a stupid requirement like this if it’s going to be twisted and unenforced anyway.