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NCAA releases three-year APR data

Just 112 teams punished, but trouble looms for 2008

On Wednesday, the NCAA released its three-year Academic Progress Rate (APR) data, in which only 112 of 6,100 Division I sports teams lost scholarships or were publicly sanctioned for failing to meet acceptable standards. But officials warned that significantly more teams in the major sports could be in trouble next year.

Entire article: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/ncaa/05/02/apr.report/index.html?eref=si_topstories
 
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Great news. This was an area that I had some misgivings about JT. It looks like, with each passing year, I'm being proven wrong, and I couldn't be happier about it.

Kudos to Andy Geiger. I really believe that he has set us up to have the best all-around athletic department in the country.
 
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One thing of concern might be the warning shot in the report about the teams (unnamed) who will no longer have the cushion of the squad-size adjsutment, or statistical confidence to lean back upon.

Though the Football squad is in good shape, the historic APR for Basketball was not good, and with the early departure of Oden, Conley and Cook it isn't going to get a needed boost.

Here are the major sports APR for all Big 10 teams as of this report.

Team -------- Football ------- Basketball
Illinois ------- 926 ----------- 986
Indiana ------ 943 ----------- 890 + ~
Iowa -------- 957 ----------- 940
Michigan ---- 958 ----------- 949
Michigan St - 922+ ---------- 965
Minnesota -- 919+ ---------- 887+~
Northwestern 962 ----------- 962
Penn State - 960 ----------- 950
Purdue ----- 915+ ---------- 910+
Wisconsin -- 935 ----------- 931
Ohio State - 928 ----------- 902+

Key + Denotes APR that does not subject the team to contemporaneous penalties due to the squad-size adjustment. The "upper confidence boundary" of a team's APR must be below 925 for that team to be subject to contemporaneous penalties. Squad-size adjustments will be eliminated when the fourth year of APR data is collected, provided the team's multiyear cohort includes 30 or more student-athletes.
~ Denotes APR that does not subject the team to historical penalties due to the squad-size adjustment. The "upper confidence boundary" of a team's APR must be below 900 for that team to be subject to historical penalties. Squad-size adjustments will be eliminated when the fourth year of APR data is collected, provided the team's multiyear cohort includes 30 or more student-athletes.

In other words Purdue, Minnesota and Michigan State face possible penalties next year unless they have a rolling average APR above 925 in football.
For Basketball Indiana, Purdue, Minnesota and Ohio State are squarely facing issues - though the squad-size adjustment works differently as the cohort is smaller.

By way of contrast what is going on in other major conferences and programs?
The PAC-10 is particularly hard hit, being the highest hard of the major conferences in this year. Arizona already has an issue with Football having lost 4 scholarships - it will be hard for them to make that up in one year. They will likely be handicapped next year by the NCAA.
Arizona's APR for Football was 883 (+~). Other programs on the APR cusp in the PAC 10 include Oregon (912+), Oregon State (913+).
PAC 10 Basketball programs with a need to boost APR include USC (882+~) - which a one and done Mayo is not going to do - Wash. St. 892+~, Arizona St. (885+~) and Arizona (924+).

In the Big 12 Football riders of the cusp include Texas A&M (922+), Ok. St (924+) K. State at 926 and the Kansas Jayhawks with 918+. In Basketball A&M (891+~), Texas (893+~), Oklahoma (897+~), K. State (884+~), Iowa St. (852), Colorado (872+~) and Baylor (893+~) are in the room for improvement club.

The SEC is largely clean in Football (did I just say that!) the Gamecocks (913+) are the most exposed, Miss. St (921+) is on the cusp. Like other major conferences the SEC has their share of Basketball teams with room for improvement in the APR. Auburn (872~), Florida (917+), Georgia (916+), LSU (903+), Ole Miss (908+), Miss. St. (908+) USC (902+~), UT Vols (910+) all are in that club.

I (or someone else with patience - given the poor data display from the NCAA) can get the other two BCS conferences. Regardless, this is interesting, and in many ways, daunting reading.
 
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Link to obtain the APR for all Div 1 NCAA member schools. Link to the schools that are subject to penalties in a given sport. In the BCS conferences the following schools are losing scholarships in either football or men's BB: Iowa State - 2 men's BB scholarships Arizona - 4 football scholarships Cincinnati - 1 men's BB scholarship

For Mili, Hawaii is losing 1 football scholarship.
 
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Ohio State gets no penalties as NCAA grades academic performance
Wednesday, May 2, 2007 5:00 PM
By Ken Gordon

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

The Buckeyes football team came in at 928, slightly better than last year (925). The men's basketball team was at 902, down from 911 last year. It avoided penalty because of the squad-size adjustment.
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Also, three Buckeyes are expected to leave early for the NBA ? Mike Conley Jr., Daequan Cook and Greg Oden. If even one of those three is not academically eligible after spring quarter, it might lead to penalties next year
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http://www.columbusdispatch.com/dispatch/content/sports/stories/2007/05/02/ncaa02.html
 
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NCAA to crack down on teams underachieving in classroom

By STEVE WIEBERG
USA TODAY

May 9, 2007


Another week is all Texas asks of Kevin Durant.

He has given the Longhorns a remarkable freshman year, lifting them to 25 wins and into the second round of the NCAA men's basketball tournament.

Now, before he heads to the NBA, he needs only to get through final exams. Pull down decent grades. Keep from being a blight on the Longhorns' academic record.

Cont...
 
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For BB, there is a bit of an advantage for the semester schools in that we (quarter schools) need these guys who have declared to stay focused on acedemics for 6 weeks after the deadline to declare, where as some semester schools are done a week later. Fortunately, I think the situation is as favorable as can be expected this year, with Cook & Conley still leaving the door open to return, and Oden's general character and attitude about acedmics, I think we have a chance to get all 3 through the spring.
 
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Maybe a little off mark here, I think the concept of what the NCAA is trying to do is spot on. My concerns are schools are now more then willing to bend rules and "assist" student even more to make sure they do not lose scholarships.
 
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sportsline

Academic Progress Rate: Numbers don't tell the story
May 7, 2007
By Dennis Dodd

Last week the NCAA asked you to suspend your beliefs.
It asked you to believe that Auburn football was one of the shining academic beacons less than a year after academic irregularities were uncovered by the New York Times.

It asked you to believe that mid-major schools were the main academic offenders in its annual Academic Progress Rate report, but that only one football program among BCS schools is academically deficient.

Cont'd ...
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CBS Sports in general, does not like us.

Dodd wasn't actually too tough on us, but he has not done a good job on his research(did he even do any?)
He(surprisingly), took on Auburn. I give him credit for that.
 
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