We are trying to get as smart you fellers already in the conference....at least the athletes are!

https://twitter.com/dennisdoddcbs/status...0564509696

Damn, according to McMurphy, we would still be 2nd last in the conference....I guess 947 is considered 1,000 in some books.

Brett McMurphy ‏@McMurphyESPN · 2m
Football APR ACC: Duke 992, Clem & GT 983, BC 981, VT 977, UM & ND 972, Wake 970, SU 965, Pitt 961, FSU 958, Va 956, Md & NCSt 950, UNC 938

APR is a sham...I'd like a list of the player's majors.

(05-14-2014 02:06 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  APR is a sham...I'd like a list of the player's majors.

Good point, I didn't want to share that a lot of the majors at UL consists of Horse Race Betting, Baseball Bat Making, and Fried Chicken Cooking

You left off Bourbon Swilling.

Who confused 947 for 1000? I'm sure UL had a sport score 1000, pretty much every school has a few (aside from HBCUs and the like, they just don't have the funds to keep kids eligible).

Cuse has something called "Children and Family Studies" which seems popular for many of the athletes.

Brett McMurphy ‏@McMurphyESPN · 40m
Bottom 10 BCS football APR: OkSt 929, Tenn & TT 932, Ark 935, UH & Ky 937, Cal & UNC 938, Mem 940, ASU & USC 941

(05-14-2014 02:03 PM)dgrace4cards Wrote:  Damn, according to McMurphy, we would still be 2nd last in the conference....I guess 947 is considered 1,000 in some books.

Brett McMurphy ‏@McMurphyESPN · 2m
Football APR ACC: Duke 992, Clem & GT 983, BC 981, VT 977, UM & ND 972, Wake 970, SU 965, Pitt 961, FSU 958, Va 956, Md & NCSt 950, UNC 938

My interpretation is that for the prior academic year alone, UofL basketball AND football had a 1,000. While basketball has been consistently high for some time however, football's average is 947 due to rising out of the APR hole Kraggy placed the team in. The APR rose consistently during Strong's tenure but the average APR looks at a broader range of years.

(05-14-2014 02:03 PM)dgrace4cards Wrote:  Damn, according to McMurphy, we would still be 2nd last in the conference....I guess 947 is considered 1,000 in some books.

Brett McMurphy ‏@McMurphyESPN · 2m
Football APR ACC: Duke 992, Clem & GT 983, BC 981, VT 977, UM & ND 972, Wake 970, SU 965, Pitt 961, FSU 958, Va 956, Md & NCSt 950, UNC 938

MD would be 2nd last in the B1G.

(05-14-2014 02:06 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  APR is a sham...I'd like a list of the player's majors.

And I would love to audit the grades. UNC is NOT an isolated case. I'm pretty sure I could throw darts at a dart board and hit schools that inflate grades for star athletes.

APR is a measure of academic eligibility not academic performance.

they switched to APR because the grad rates were too embarrassing.

May 14, 2014

NOTRE DAME, Ind. - Eleven University of Notre Dame athletic teams earned perfect 1,000 scores -- more perfect scores than all but one other NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision school -- in the annual set of Academic Progress Rate statistics issued Wednesday by the NCAA.

All 26 Irish athletics programs again exceeded the NCAA's APR minimum standards.

Notre Dame's number of perfect scores of 1,000 has ranked either first or second among all FBS programs for nine straight years. Leaders in the 2014 data released Wednesday are Stanford (with 12), Notre Dame (11), Northwestern (10), Minnesota (nine), Boston College and Duke (eight each), Penn State (seven), and Ohio State and Vanderbilt (six each).

Notre Dame led the FBS schools in 1,000 scores in 2013 and 2012 (both with 12), in 2009 (with nine), in 2008 (with eight, tied with Duke) and in 2006 (with 14, tied with Boston College). Notre Dame finished second in number of 1,000 scores in 2011, 2010 and 2007.

The 2014 report released by the NCAA features a four-year compilation of APR data from the 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years. The APR uses a series of formulas related to student-athlete retention and eligibility to measure the academic performances of all participants who receive grants-in-aid on every team at every NCAA Division I college and university.

http://www.und.com/genrel/051414aaa.html






Here is some grad rate data:


"And players in the Football Bowl Subdivision topped last year's record high of 70 percent by hitting 71 percent thanks to a 4-percentage-point jump, to 84 percent, among white FBS players and 2-percentage-point jump, to 64 percent, among black FBS players.

Alabama, which has won the past two BCS titles and is ranked No. 1 this season, finished at 73 percent, ahead of football's four-year average (70 percent). Notre Dame, which lost in January's BCS title game, had a grad rate of 94 percent."


• Three of the four women's Final Four teams also topped the sport's four-year average (85). Notre Dame came in at 100 percent with Connecticut and Louisville both at 92. California's grad rate was 75 percent.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/...tion-rates


Stanford's Scout site does a good grad rate analysis every year:




Top 10 Football Grad Rates: FBS
(Graduation Success Rate)

Northwestern 97%
Notre Dame 97%
Boston College 94%
Miami (Fla.) 94%
Rice 93%
Duke 92%
Penn State 91%
Rutgers 91%
Stanford 90%
Army 88%


Football Graduation Rates: Big East

Rutgers 91%
Syracuse 79%
Cincinnati 70%
Pittsburgh 70%
Connecticut 68%
Temple 66%
Louisville 63%
South Florida 53%



Football Graduation Rates: ACC

Boston College 94%
Miami 94%
Duke 92%
Wake Forest 86%
Virginia Tech 75%
Clemson 75%
North Carolina 75%
Virginia 69%
Maryland 65%
North Carolina St. 62%
Florida St. 55%
Georgia Tech 55%



http://stanford.scout.com/2/1273612.html