NCAA APR Penalties

[smithspike]

Toledo loses 4 football scholarships, Cincinnati loses 1 basketball scholarship, and Cleveland State loses 0.84 baseball scholarships. No other Ohio schools are penalized.

From the Columbus Dispatch

Miami is strong again.

Miami's data from the NCAA

[Spanks004]

maybe im not interpreting the data correctly, but from what i saw, pretty disappointed in the softball and volleyball teams

[bluesman]

[stevo]

The raw scores for those sports are not bad, but I agree that being in the 20th-30th percentile (softball) and 30th-40th percentile (volleyball) does appear disappointing.

However, a question about those percentiles. How does tennis, with a perfect 1000, end up in the 80th-90th percentile?

Also, I find it interesting that the football APR for D-IA (934) is higher than the APR for D-IAA (927) - though neither is respectable. Perhaps playing all those playoff games did hurt D-IAA schools academically!

[thechuck_2112]

[stevo]

[thechuck_2112]

Right, because (if we make it even simpler, with just 100 teams) there are 85 teams you're better than and 14 you're not better than (b/c you're tied). So no one is the 99th percentile or whatever. In theory, everyone could tie for the 0th percentile on the SAT if everyone got exactly the same score; of course, they have an army of statisticians and question-writers making sure a good distribution is achieved in practice. APR, for obvious reasons, can't exactly have that.
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[Getting hooked]

What is the sample pool for volleyball and softball........I love the bowling category......NOT
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[stevo]

[bluesman]

UC basketball with a stellar 838:

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070503/SPT0101/705030340/1064/SPT

[bluesman]

Sort of sad there are only 86 men's wrestling teams left in the country. Talk about a sport hit hard by Title IX. And only 22 men's volleyball teams. Guess being ranked in the top 20 doesn't mean much!!

[DevilGrad]

'The APRs: Bobby Knight Was Right"
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[Maz]

In the post article to which DG linked in his front page article, did anyone notice the gigantic loophole that Brand mentions? Next year, unless teams improve their scores or have a workable plan in place, they will be penalized. (paraphrasing)

You don't have to be Nostra-freaking-damus to see what's coming, do you?
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[DevilGrad]

Very good point.

Still, as I've contended for years, this stuff is real (at least as applied to the smaller schools) and all the message-board mental masturbation over the attendance rules was useless.
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[stevo]

A couple of other notes:

- Other than softball and volleyball, all the rest of Miami's teams (16 of 1 had an APR higher than the Division I average - including all of the men's teams.

- Other than softball, volleyball, and men's outdoor track, the rest of Miami's teams had an APR higher than the average of all private colleges. And the track team was only below that average by one point (971 v. 972).

[miamibeef04]

Men's Fencing and Women's Crew (Rowing) are the "smartest" sports....Interesting.

Nice work from the RedHawks. To be in the category of not having any teams lose scholarships is something to be VERY proud of.


While OSU basketball is safe for now, it doesn't look good for the future (which couldn't make me happier ):

[smithspike]

The ESPN article that DG linked stated that over one-fourth of the schools that received warning letters are in the Katrina zone. Is this a result of Katrina's impact on the schools or the schools' lack of attention to academics? I would guess that this is due to Katrina, but Tulane performed well.

[DevilGrad]

Orson comes through with the funny.

http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/?p=3388
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[Maz]

Wow, I think I just got a reference on EDSBS ... (for pointing out the loophole) ... uncredited, but a reference.

I feel almost famous.
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[DevilGrad]

I've updated our front page to make sure you are credited for this insight.
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[Maz]

[FLBobcat99]

I will withhold comment on the APR until next year, when the NCAA says it's getting rid of the "squad size adjustment."

USF, for example, has a truly awful graduation rate for its basketball players, but we were able to "squad size adjust." Ohio State's football graduation rate was the lowest of all teams playing in a bowl game this year, yet they somehow "squad size adjust" to get to 925.

Scammers, all of them.
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[DevilGrad]

Also worth noting when analyzing the MAC data, Dave Ruthenberg reported last year that MAC student-athletes must meet a league-wide minimum GPA standard of 2.0, which is a cut above what most leagues require.

For comparison's sake, the Big Ten has a sliding scale that requires a 1.65 GPA during the freshman year, a 1.80 for the second year, 1.90 for the third year, and a 2.00 for the fourth and fifth years.

http://www.macreportonline.com/NCAA_APR.html

http://media.www.michigandaily.com/media/storage/paper851/news/2001/01/29/Sports/Balancing.Act.As.Athletes.Try.To.Mix.Sports.And.Academics.Athletic.Department.Tr-1410836.shtml
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