Comments on: IT’S APR DAY! GIT DOWN, SUCKA!

By: DevilGrad

DevilGrad — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:11:40 +0000

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.

By: Expat Ohioan

Expat Ohioan — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:09:29 +0000

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.

By: Excuse me Stewardess, but I speak jive

Excuse me Stewardess, but I speak jive — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:31:15 +0000

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?”

By: ChemE93

ChemE93 — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:48:16 +0000

I never thought I would look at a video of Mr. T and think, “What is up with that other guy’s hair?”

By: ehrenb2

ehrenb2 — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:10:03 +0000

#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).

By: DevilGrad

DevilGrad — Wed, 07 May 2008 02:47:45 +0000

And then up at the volcano as the golf cart flies by.

By: George

George — Wed, 07 May 2008 02:01:22 +0000

ASU has to be looking at Idaho’s APR score, then at Erickson, then back at Idaho’s score, then back at Erickson…

By: Mr. Pelican Pants

Mr. Pelican Pants — Wed, 07 May 2008 01:23:48 +0000

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?

By: Imposter Doug

Imposter Doug — Wed, 07 May 2008 01:23:07 +0000

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!)

By: StageCoach

StageCoach — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:38:27 +0000

@14

I thought Jackie Sherrill already had somebody’s balls. Oh, wait, that was some poor steer…

By: SpookyJuice

SpookyJuice — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:41:38 +0000

Damnit…..this would’ve never happened on Jackie Sherrill’s watch.

He will have your fucking balls for this NCAA

By: DevilGrad

DevilGrad — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:13:44 +0000

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

By: PeteJayhawk

PeteJayhawk — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:02:48 +0000

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.

By: PeteJayhawk

PeteJayhawk — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:59:37 +0000

#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.

By: Crabapple Buck

Crabapple Buck — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:56:47 +0000

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.