IT’S APR DAY! GIT DOWN, SUCKA!
The NCAA released the APR today, the Academic Progress Report, the NCAA’s opportunity to seize the spotlight and do what it does best: issue press releases.
The NCAA’s Academic Performance Program (APP) is creating positive behavioral change among Division I institutions, according to new four-year data released May 6.
The multi-year Academic Progress Rate (APR) data – with four years of data collection available for the first time – show upward trends in several categories, especially from 2005-06 to 2006-07.
GET DOWN, PARTY PEOPLE! GET DOWN!
We’re still digging through the data for this year, made even more fun by the NCAA’s propensity for releasing a press release on one page, a commentary on another, a spreadsheet here, a comprehensive list hosted on a Russian Military server and only accessible via several hours of white-knuckle hackery. Fortunately, the Indy Star has them all compiled nicely for you so you can revel in the uproarious ironies of a system where the University of Florida’s football team is on par with the United States Military Academy’s team in academic performance, and where Eastern Kentucky pwnz them both.
In the meantime, the only penalties of any relevance to college football go to Kansas and Washington State, who will suffer scholarship losses due to underwhelming APR scores. NCAA, beware: Mark Mangino will have his real estate agent call you to voice his displeasure with your metrics!
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MrRedDevil says:
Their client is very unhappy (hungry)!
May 6th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
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PeteJayhawk says:
Yup, KU loses 2 scholarships. KU did a pretty smart thing and released the info publicly back when they first found out in March. They built this into their ‘08 recruiting class. And thankfully it’s nothing compared to Wazzu’s 8-scholly loss.
Other D1A schools’ football losses:
Central Michigan – 2
Florida Atlantic – 3
Florida Intl – 3
New Mexico St – 3
San Diego St – 6
Buffalo – 2
UAB – 9 (!)
Hawaii – 1
Idaho – 8
UNLV -1
North Texas – 5
Toledo – 6
And sadly (seriously), it looks like almost HBCU is on the list.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
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Brian O'Blivion says:
Commence academic smack.
REEEAAAAADYYYYYYYYY……..Go!
May 6th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
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Allaha says:
So Iraq would be going better if the alumni of Eastern Kentucky were in charge?
May 6th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
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PeteJayhawk says:
Oh…here’s the NCAA list of scholarship losses in all sports:
http://www.ncaa.org/wps/portal/home?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/wps/wcm/connect/NCAA/Academics+and+Athletes/Education+and+Research/Academic+Reform/APR/2007-08+Teams+Subject+to+Penalties+By+Institution
May 6th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
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King Harvest says:
That is the exact same way I turn my head
May 6th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
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skinnyphatman says:
I pity the FOOL!….or major university who cannot cook their books to pass the APR. I mean come on, what the hell are we doing here?!?! trying to educate students or provide a quality product on the field most Saturday’s during the fall and providing discussion fodder for the masses during the off season.
I weep for our future.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
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Yellow Tail Swine says:
I absolutely love that smiling douchebag in the background.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
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hunglikehussain says:
Scrolling down the football list, I tried to see which school with a decent program would show up first.
Lets see….
bunch of Ivy’s…..
some basketball places….
some elite privates…..
military academies….
Hmmm……
MIAMI! WTF? How is this possible? Are you kidding me?
/thoroughly stunned
May 6th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
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Crabapple Buck says:
With the largest athletic department in the country and 36 mens and womens programs, I am relieved and happy that The Ohio State University doesn’t appear. With all of the early entrants to the pros (most years), I’m sure it is only a matter of time.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
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PeteJayhawk says:
#10, I could easily be wrong here….but for some reason I’m thinking that programs can escape penalty if their early departures have made satisfactory academic progress towards a degree.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
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PeteJayhawk says:
Also, not that anyone gives a rat’s ass…but KU’s troubles mostly stem from their trainwreck of a recruiting class in 2003. That’s the one that got us the NCAA “academic fraud” tag. Out of 25 or so recruits, we ended up with like 5 of them lasting more than one season.
May 6th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
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DevilGrad says:
More fun facts: Although over 700 teams (all sports combined) missed the APR “cut off” line, only 218 were given current penalties. As my MHT lawya, Maz predicted last year, most of the rest were able to skate by offering up an “APR Improvement Plan.” Naturally, the bigger, better funded schools are better able to gin up such a plan.
Various notes and thoughts compiled at the link below:
MiamiHawkTalk.com
May 6th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
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SpookyJuice says:
Damnit…..this would’ve never happened on Jackie Sherrill’s watch.
He will have your fucking balls for this NCAA
May 6th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
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StageCoach says:
@14
I thought Jackie Sherrill already had somebody’s balls. Oh, wait, that was some poor steer…
May 6th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
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Imposter Doug says:
Re 9
Miami football is actually ahead of Vandy and the USMA.
Its worth noting that the APR is a measure of how well a team graduates players and keeps them eligible; by no means is it a measure of how rigorous their course load. Do you really think that Javarris James is signing up for Differential Calculus or Renal Physiology?
That being said. UCONN basketball pwn’d Georgetown (by a point)! Take that you ivory tower fuckers!
I’m sorry…UCONN fan, got to take what I can from a college football blog. (Oh Dan Orlovsky! If only you were Matt Mauk and made dozens of ill advised attempts at extending your eligibility!)
May 6th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
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Mr. Pelican Pants says:
Damn go ahead and shut the UAB football program down now, or at least go to DIV III…..-9 on the scholarships?
Where were those kids from who got UAB put on Double Secret Probation, the Delta house?
May 6th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
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George says:
ASU has to be looking at Idaho’s APR score, then at Erickson, then back at Idaho’s score, then back at Erickson…
May 6th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
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DevilGrad says:
And then up at the volcano as the golf cart flies by.
May 6th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
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ehrenb2 says:
#17:
Let’s put it this way – UAB has 2 kinds of students. The ones in medical/health and hard science programs are top notch. The rest are dumb as hell, and then the athletes are the players with marginal talent or they couldn’t get into UA or AU.
I fully expect them to be banned from postseason next year (not that they would make it anyway) and then a strong shot at getting kicked out of D1 the year after (look it up – that’s the penalty for being under the bar for 4 years in a row).
May 6th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
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ChemE93 says:
I never thought I would look at a video of Mr. T and think, “What is up with that other guy’s hair?”
May 7th, 2008 at 7:48 am
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Excuse me Stewardess, but I speak jive says:
It pisses me off when people single out players as those who should be held to any higher standard as students- i bet if you look at the entire student body of these same schools and there are a much higher percentage of non-athletes that are dumber than a bucket of wet hair.
I’m all for these athletes being held to a standard of actually taking their classes and tests, but they are under a different situation than non-athletes, and should be allowed that consideration in tutoring, class schedules, etc.
You have to remember- the football programs of most of these major universities cover most of the budgets of the other school programs not covered directly by tuition. So maybe our players won’t come back after their NFL careers and cure cancer, but someone from one of these schools will one day, in a lab or from books or in a building that was at least partially funded by football revenues.
Coach Winters (James Caan) said it best in The Program- “yeah, but did 80,000 people ever show up to watch a goddamn chess match?”
May 7th, 2008 at 11:31 am
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Expat Ohioan says:
Crabapple Buck: Not sucking. Way to set the bar high.
Next year, maybe the goal should be no arrests for the University of Ohio State. ‘Cuz it’s too late for that goal this year.
May 7th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
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DevilGrad says:
Re #22: You have got to be fucking kidding me. That post is so wrong-headed, error-riddled, and moronic that it doesn’t even qualify for a point-by-point response. All I can do at this point is ask you to Google the Knight Commission’s study on the financial effects of big-time football or any one of nearly annual reports from USA Today showing that all but a handful of Division I-A athletic departments (including the BCS schools) actually LOSE money.
May 8th, 2008 at 8:11 am