Showing posts with label academics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label academics. Show all posts

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Grad rates for Alabama and LSU ...

Sports commentators across the country have analyzed the Alabama and LSU football teams from one end to the other. But I'd bet that probably only here, on the Beyond Friday Nights blog, will you find the graduation rates for these two football powers in one place! 

BCS Championship Bowl --
GSRs:  Alabama, 69; LSU, 77

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Grad rates for GoDaddy.com Bowl teams ...

Talk about evenly matched, at least in the classroom ... check out the NCAA graduation rates (officially known as the Graduation Success Rate, or GSR) for the teams in Sunday's bowl game.

GoDaddy.com Bowl --
GSRs: Arkansas State, 73; Northern Illinois, 73

Friday, January 6, 2012

Compass Bowl grad rates ...

Check out the NCAA graduation rates (officially known as the Graduation Success Rate, or GSR) for the teams in Saturday's bowl game, one of the last of the season.

BBVA Compass Bowl --
GSRs: SMU, 72; Pittsburgh, 65

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Cotton Bowl grad rates ...

NCAA graduation rates (officially known as the Graduation Success Rate, or GSR) offer one of the best available insights into the academic perfomance of players on college football teams. Check out the GSRs for Friday's bowl game.

AT&T Cotton Bowl --
GSRs:  Kansas State, 62; Arkansas, 56

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Orange Bowl grad rates ...

Check out the NCAA graduation rates (officially known as the Graduation Success Rate, or GSR) for the teams in Wednesday's bowl game. Draw your own conclusions about these and other bowl team grad rates posted previously. Comments welcome!

Discover Orange Bowl --
GSRs:  West Virginia, 75; Clemson, 62

Monday, January 2, 2012

Sugar Bowl grad rates ...

Check out the NCAA graduation rates (officially known as the Graduation Success Rate, or GSR) for the teams in Tuesday's bowl game. Draw your own conclusions about these and other bowl team grad rates posted previously. Comments welcome.

Allstate Sugar Bowl --
GSRs:  Michigan, 71; Virginia Tech, 79


Sunday, January 1, 2012

Graduation rates for Jan. 2 bowl teams ...

Six bowl games are on tap for Monday, January 2. Check out the NCAA graduation rates (officially known as the Graduation Success Rate, or GSR) for each team. Once again, I'll invite you to draw your own conclusions, and let us know in the comment section below!

Ticket City Bowl –
GSRs:  Houston, 57; Penn State, 87

Outback Bowl --
GSRs:  Michigan State, 62; Georgia, 65

Capital One Bowl –
GSRs:  Nebraska, 67; South Carolina, 55

Taxslayer.com Gator Bowl –
GSRs:  Ohio State, 67; Florida, 76

Rose Bowl –
GSRs:  Wisconsin, 66; Oregon, 63

Tostitos Fiesta Bowl –
GSRs:  Stanford, 87; Oklahoma State, 65

Friday, December 30, 2011

Grad rates for teams in New Year's Eve bowls ...

Check out the NCAA graduation rates (officially known as the Graduation Success Rate, or GSR) for all of the teams playing in New Year's Eve bowl games. Draw your own conclusions. (See my previous posts on this issue, too.)

Meineke Car Care Bowl --
GSRs:  Texas A&M, 59; Northwestern, 94

Hyundai Sun Bowl –
GSRs:  Georgia Tech, 55; Utah, 62

Autozone Liberty Bowl –
GSRs:  Cincinnati, 79; Vanderbilt, 86

Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl –
GSRs:  Illinois, 76; UCLA, 59

Chick-fil-A Bowl –
GSRs:  Virginia, 68; Auburn, 63

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Grad rates for teams in Friday's bowl games ...

Check out the NCAA graduation rates (officially known as the Graduation Success Rate, or GSR) for all of the teams playing in Friday's bowl games. (See my previous posts on this issue, too.)

Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl –
GSRs:  BYU, 57; Tulsa, 63

New Era Pinstripe Bowl –
GSRs:  Rutgers, 89; Iowa State, 63

Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl –
GSRs:  Mississippi State, 62; Wake Forest, 81

Insight Bowl –
GSRs:  Oklahoma, 48; Iowa, 83


Grad rates for Alamo Bowl and Sports Bowl teams ...

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Check out the NCAA graduation rates (officially known as the Graduation Success Rate, or GSR) for all of today's bowl teams. (See my previous posts on this issue, too.)

Champion Sports Bowl --
GSRs: Florida State, 56; Notre Dame, 97

Valero Alamo Bowl --
GSRs: Washington, 76; Baylor, 62

A few things to keep in mind: The NCAA's GSR measure looks at the percentage of players who earned a degree within six years of entering college. The latest data is for those who entered college in 2004, so it's a somewhat dated measure, reflecting how well those students performed academically -- as measure solely by whether they earned degrees or not -- over the past six years. So if a particular college program decided this year to improve the academic success of its players, we wouldn't see results, as measured this way, until six years later. Of course, the opposite of that is true too -- if a program began dropping the ball, so to speak, on working hard to ensure that their players earned degrees, we wouldn't know about it for many years. It's important to note, too, that the GSR calculation doesn't penalize schools for students who, while in good academic standing, leave the program, perhaps to transfer to another school or maybe even go to the NFL before earning their degree. The NCAA makes GSR data available by school and by conference in a searchable database. And see a rather rosy-sounding NCAA news release, too, covering GSRs for all sports.

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Grad rates for Holiday Bowl and Military Bowl teams ...

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Check out the NCAA graduation rates (officially known as the Graduation Success Rate, or GSR) for all of today's bowl teams. There's quite a variety! (See my previous posts on this issue, too.)

Military Bowl --
GSRs: Toledo, 64; Air Force, 84

Bridgeport Education Holiday Bowl --
GSRs: Texas, 57; California, 54

A few things to keep in mind: The NCAA's GSR measure looks at the percentage of players who earned a degree within six years of entering college. The latest data is for those who entered college in 2004, so it's a somewhat dated measure, reflecting how well those students performed academically -- as measure solely by whether they earned degrees or not -- over the past six years. So if a particular college program decided this year to improve the academic success of its players, we wouldn't see results, as measured this way, until six years later. Of course, the opposite of that is true too -- if a program began dropping the ball, so to speak, on working hard to ensure that their players earned degrees, we wouldn't know about it for many years. It's important to note, too, that the GSR calculation doesn't penalize schools for students who, while in good academic standing, leave the program, perhaps to transfer to another school or maybe even go to the NFL before earning their degree. The NCAA makes GSR data available by school and by conference in a searchable database. And see a rather rosy-sounding NCAA news release, too, covering GSRs for all sports.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

GSR rates for teams in today's bowls ...

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Check out the NCAA graduation rates (officially known as the Graduation Success Rate, or GSR) for all of today's bowl teams. (See my previous posts on this issue, too.)

Little Caesar's Bowl --
GSRs: Purdue, 59; Western Michigan, 61

Belk Bowl --
GSRs: North Carolina State, 56; Louisville, 66

A few things to keep in mind: The NCAA's GSR measure looks at the percentage of players who earned a degree within six years of entering college. The latest data is for those who entered college in 2004, so it's a somewhat dated measure, reflecting how well those students performed academically -- as measure solely by whether they earned degrees or not -- over the past six years. So if a particular college program decided this year to improve the academic success of its players, we wouldn't see results, as measured this way, until six years later. Of course, the opposite of that is true too -- if a program began dropping the ball, so to speak, on working hard to ensure that their players earned degrees, we wouldn't know about it for many years. It's important to note, too, that the GSR calculation doesn't penalize schools for students who, while in good academic standing, leave the program, perhaps to transfer to another school or maybe even go to the NFL before earning their degree. The NCAA makes GSR data available by school and by conference in a searchable database. And see a rather rosy-sounding NCAA news release, too, covering GSRs for all sports.

Monday, December 26, 2011

Graduation rates for Independence Bowl teams ...

NCAA graduation rates (officially known as the Graduation Success Rate, or GSR) for both of tonight's bowl teams are not too bad, especially for one of the teams (See my previous posts on this grad rate issue, too.)

AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl --
GSRs:  Missouri, 66; North Carolina, 75
A few things to keep in mind: The NCAA's GSR measure looks at the percentage of players who earned a degree within six years of entering college. The latest data is for those who entered college in 2004, so it's a somewhat dated measure, reflecting how well those students performed academically -- as measure solely by whether they earned degrees or not -- over the past six years. So if a particular college program decided this year to improve the academic success of its players, we wouldn't see results, as measured this way, until six years later. Of course, the opposite of that is true too -- if a program began dropping the ball, so to speak, on working hard to ensure that their players earned degrees, we wouldn't know about it for many years. It's important to note, too, that the GSR calculation doesn't penalize schools for students who, while in good academic standing, leave the program, perhaps to transfer to another school or maybe even go to the NFL before earning their degree. The NCAA makes GSR data available by school and by conference in a searchable database. And see a rather rosy-sounding NCAA news release, too, covering GSRs for all sports.

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Grad rates for tonight's Hawaii Bowl teams ...

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NCAA graduation rates (officially known as the Graduation Success Rate, or GSR) for both of tonight's bowl teams are pretty high compared to those of many other teams that will play in more prestigious bowls later in the bowl season. (See my previous posts on this grad rate issue, too.)

Sheraton Hawaii Bowl --
GSRs: Nevada, 70; Southern Mississippi, 78

A few things to keep in mind: The NCAA's GSR measure looks at the percentage of players who earned a degree within six years of entering college. The latest data is for those who entered college in 2004, so it's a somewhat dated measure, reflecting how well those students performed academically -- as measure solely by whether they earned degrees or not -- over the past six years. So if a particular college program decided this year to improve the academic success of its players, we wouldn't see results, as measured this way, until six years later. Of course, the opposite of that is true too -- if a program began dropping the ball, so to speak, on working hard to ensure that their players earned degrees, we wouldn't know about it for many years. It's important to note, too, that the GSR calculation doesn't penalize schools for students who, while in good academic standing, leave the program, perhaps to transfer to another school or maybe even go to the NFL before earning their degree. The NCAA makes GSR data available by school and by conference in a searchable database. And see a rather rosy-sounding NCAA news release, too, covering GSRs for all sports.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Grad rates high for Maaco Bowl teams ...

For the second bowl game in a row, the NCAA graduation rates (officially known as the Graduation Success Rate, or GSR) for both of tonight's bowl teams are fairly high, at least compared to those of many other football teams. Wonder if this will all change when we get into the more-prestigious bowl games. (See my previous posts on this grad rate issue, too.)

Maaco Bowl --
GSRs: Boise State, 74; Arizona State, 73

A few things to keep in mind: The NCAA's GSR measure looks at the percentage of players who earned a degree within six years of entering college. The latest data is for those who entered college in 2004, so it's a somewhat dated measure, reflecting how well those students performed academically -- as measure solely by whether they earned degrees or not -- over the past six years. So if a particular college program decided this year to improve the academic success of its players, we wouldn't see results, as measured this way, until six years later. Of course, the opposite of that is true too -- if a program began dropping the ball, so to speak, on working hard to ensure that their players earned degrees, we wouldn't know about it for many years. It's important to note, too, that the GSR calculation doesn't penalize schools for students who, while in good academic standing, leave the program, perhaps to transfer to another school or maybe even go to the NFL before earning their degree. The NCAA makes GSR data available by school and by conference in a searchable database. And see a rather rosy-sounding NCAA news release, too, covering GSRs for all sports.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Graduation rates for football bowl teams ...

A couple of months ago, the NCAA released updated graduation rates for college football players, and I provided those figures for schools in the BCS rankings in a November 6 post. Now that bowl games are underway, I thought it would be interesting to provide the graduation rate -- officially known as the Graduation Success Rate, or GSR -- for each school in each bowl match-up. I'm starting a little late on this, because some bowl games have already been played, so I've added GSRs for those teams too. Check back, too -- I'll post the GSRs for teams that play in each day's bowl games.

Tonight's game (December 20)

Beef  O' Brady's St. Petersburg Bowl --
GSRs: Florida International 43, Marshall 77

Games already played (December 17)

Gildan New Mexico Bowl --
GSRs: Temple 60, Wyoming 64
  (Game result: Temple 37, Wyoming 15)

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl --
GSRs:  Ohio 71, Utah State 77
  (Game result:  Ohio 24, Utah State 23)

R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl --
GSRs San Diego State 56, Louisiana-Lafayette 56
  (Game result: San Diego State 30, Louisiana-Lafayette 32

A few things to keep in mind:  The NCAA's GSR measure looks at the percentage of players who earned a degree within six years of entering college. The latest data is for those who entered college in 2004, so it's a somewhat dated measure, reflecting how well those students performed academically -- as measure solely by whether they earned degrees or not -- over the past six years. So if a particular college program decided this year to improve the academic success of its players, we wouldn't see results, as measured this way, until six years later. Of course, the opposite of that is true too -- if a program began dropping the ball, so to speak, on working hard to ensure that their players earned degrees, we wouldn't know about it for many years. It's important to note, too, that the GSR calculation doesn't penalize schools for students who, while in good academic standing, leave the program, perhaps to transfer to another school or maybe even go to the NFL before earning their degree. The NCAA makes GSR data available by school and by conference in a searchable database. And see a rather rosy-sounding NCAA news release, too, covering GSRs for all sports.

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Academics are vital ...

As the school year begins, any high school football player who hopes to play in college must understand the need for making the best grades possible.