(03-16-2016 02:39 PM)SpaceRaider Wrote:  

Is that from a recent article?

(03-16-2016 03:09 PM)eagle04 Wrote:  

(03-16-2016 02:39 PM)SpaceRaider Wrote:  

Is that from a recent article?

Supposedly its from today's edition of USA Today. I personally haven't seen a hard copy yet.

(03-16-2016 03:16 PM)Blue Raider Dave Wrote:  

(03-16-2016 03:09 PM)eagle04 Wrote:  

(03-16-2016 02:39 PM)SpaceRaider Wrote:  

Is that from a recent article?

Supposedly its from today's edition of USA Today. I personally haven't seen a hard copy yet.

So they are trying to associate this year's team's success with the graduation rate from the 2013-2014 year?

Congrats! I'd be more proud of that than any victories on the field or court.

I'd be leery that the source is from an ethics dept at UCF

No matter what anyone says, that is important. Way to go, Middle.

(03-17-2016 06:30 AM)Theflash Wrote:  No matter what anyone says, that is important. Way to go, Middle.

I wasn't knocking Middle. That is a great accomplishment. I was knocking UCF, lol.

(03-16-2016 02:39 PM)SpaceRaider Wrote:  

Again this year:

Quote:...For the second-straight season, the Blue Raiders will enter the NCAA Tournament with a Graduation Success Rate (GSR) of 100 percent. They join 11 other teams – Duke, Notre Dame, Butler, Bucknell, Creighton, Princeton, Dayton, Vermont and Winthrop – as the only schools in the 68-team field that reached the 100-percent GSR mark.

"When you can equate high-level winning with high academics, it makes us feel really good," MT head coach Kermit Davis said. "When you get mentioned with the elite company like Duke, Butler, Kansas, Princeton and some of those other teams, that's just a great tribute to our players, our academic center and our culture of winning."

In comparison to the other teams in the tournament, 63 of the 68 had GSRs of 50 percent or better, while 53 of them reached a 60-percent rate and 47 had a 70-percent or more clip, according to a study done by the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport. The New Orleans Privateers and Oregon Ducks rank at the bottom, with GSRs below 40 percent.

Success academically is nothing new for Middle Tennessee and Davis. He has instituted a culture of excellence in the classroom, and in May the program will have graduated 52-straight student-athletes who have exhausted their eligibility....

BLUE RAIDERS CONTINUE TO ACHIEVE AT HIGH LEVEL ACADEMICALLY


Wait, where's vanderbilt in that group?

(03-14-2017 04:18 PM)SpaceRaider Wrote:  

(03-16-2016 02:39 PM)SpaceRaider Wrote:  

Again this year:

Quote:...For the second-straight season, the Blue Raiders will enter the NCAA Tournament with a Graduation Success Rate (GSR) of 100 percent. They join 11 other teams – Duke, Notre Dame, Butler, Bucknell, Creighton, Princeton, Dayton, Vermont and Winthrop – as the only schools in the 68-team field that reached the 100-percent GSR mark.

"When you can equate high-level winning with high academics, it makes us feel really good," MT head coach Kermit Davis said. "When you get mentioned with the elite company like Duke, Butler, Kansas, Princeton and some of those other teams, that's just a great tribute to our players, our academic center and our culture of winning."

In comparison to the other teams in the tournament, 63 of the 68 had GSRs of 50 percent or better, while 53 of them reached a 60-percent rate and 47 had a 70-percent or more clip, according to a study done by the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport. The New Orleans Privateers and Oregon Ducks rank at the bottom, with GSRs below 40 percent.

Success academically is nothing new for Middle Tennessee and Davis. He has instituted a culture of excellence in the classroom, and in May the program will have graduated 52-straight student-athletes who have exhausted their eligibility....

BLUE RAIDERS CONTINUE TO ACHIEVE AT HIGH LEVEL ACADEMICALLY


Wait, where's vanderbilt in that group?

Vandy... the "class" of the state? lol k