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.
Monday, December 26, 2011
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.
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.
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.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Grad rates high for tonight's bowl teams ...
Compared to those of many other college football teams, the NCAA graduation rates (officially known as the Graduation Success Rate, or GSR) for both of tonight's bowl teams are fairly high. (See my previous posts on this issue, too.)
San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl --
GSRs: TCU, 78; Louisiana Tech, 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.
San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl --
GSRs: TCU, 78; Louisiana Tech, 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.
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.
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.
Friday, December 16, 2011
The $2,000 stipend suspended, for now ...
Remember that new NCAA provision adopted in November that would allow Division I athletic conferences to allow their institutions to give an additional $2,000 to some scholarship athletes to cover some of their incidental college expenses? Well, not so fast. After 125 schools by December 15 had requested an override of the new rule, the NCAA decided to suspend it at least until the NCAA Board of Governors meets in mid-January, when changes could be made in it. In general, the schools requested the override based on one or more of these factors -- the speed at which the new rule came about, concerns about its effect on fair competition, concerns about implementation in all sports, and concerns about the effect on activities related to Title IX (the 1972 federal law prohibiting any form of gender-based discrimination in any educational activity -- including athletics -- at institutions receiving federal funds).
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Football recruiting "dead" period approaches ...
The college football recruiting process requires college coaches to follow certain rules and regulations designating when and how they can contact potential recruits. For example, the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) Division I football recruiting calendar establishes a "dead" period beginning December 19, 2011 and continuing through January 3, 2012. During this period, "a college coach may not have any in-person contact" with a prospective recruit or his parents on or off campus at any time, according to the NCAA. However, "the coach may write and telephone" a prospective recruit or his parents during this period.
Sorting out the NCAA's "dead" period for recruiting, as well as other designated periods for evaluating players and contacting players, can be confusing. Although complying with these recruiting rules and regulations is primarily the concern of the coaches who are doing the recruiting, potential recruits and their parents might want to be aware of them so that they know when coaches can or can't make contact -- and just how they can make contact -- on certain dates.
Fortunately, the NCAA makes available online definitions for each of these types of recruiting periods, as well as a Division I football recruiting calendar and a Division II football recruiting calendar.
Much more information about the college football recruiting process is available in the book Beyond Friday Nights: College Football Recruiting for Players and Parents.
Sorting out the NCAA's "dead" period for recruiting, as well as other designated periods for evaluating players and contacting players, can be confusing. Although complying with these recruiting rules and regulations is primarily the concern of the coaches who are doing the recruiting, potential recruits and their parents might want to be aware of them so that they know when coaches can or can't make contact -- and just how they can make contact -- on certain dates.
Fortunately, the NCAA makes available online definitions for each of these types of recruiting periods, as well as a Division I football recruiting calendar and a Division II football recruiting calendar.
Much more information about the college football recruiting process is available in the book Beyond Friday Nights: College Football Recruiting for Players and Parents.
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