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NCAA ACADEMIC PROGRESS RATES
Semesters . . . at Ohio State?
Wednesday, May 07, 2008 Doug Lesmerises
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Columbus- Ohio State could be prepared to switch from the quarter system to a semester-based academic calendar in the next few years, and the change could save a few basketball scholarships.
Dr. E. Gordon Gee has been in favor of the change since his first tenure at Ohio State and reiterated the stance when he returned last fall. The athletic department would seem to favor that move, aware that the current quarter setup puts Ohio State in a pinch when players like Greg Oden and Kosta Koufos leave for the NBA.
When the NCAA released its Academic Progress Rates (APR) on Tuesday for all universities and sports, OSU's 909 score for the basketball team fell below the necessary 925 standard. But the Buckeyes avoided losing a scholarship for this coming season by presenting an academic improvement plan the NCAA accepted. However, the problem of watching players withdraw from OSU, which holds classes into June, in order to prepare for and compete in May NBA tryout camps can't be solved by hiring more learning specialists.
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Ohio State basketball falls below NCAA academic standards
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
BY Mike Popovich
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER
The Ohio State men's basketball program will not face immediate sanctions even though its four-year Academic Progress Rate is below the minimum set by the NCAA.
Ohio State athletics faculty representative John Bruno said Tuesday the NCAA has conditionally approved a waiver submitted by the university on behalf of the men's basketball program, petitioning against the possible loss of a scholarship. In the petition, Ohio State outlined a plan to improve academic performance and raise the team's APR score.
"We had to set several benchmarks the program and the department would achieve within a fixed period of time," Bruno said. "The time period was not specifically outlined, but we are interpreting it as our APR score next year will be scrutinized very carefully. We're treating it as a one-year conditional waiver."
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Men's basketball has APR work to do
All other sports except rifle above NCAA's cutoff score
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 3:35 AM
By Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
The bad news for the Ohio State men's basketball program is that its Academic Progress Rate remains well below the 925 threshold deemed acceptable by the NCAA. Two years ago, the program's four-year average score was 911. This year, it's 909.
The good news is, it should be trending upward soon. For the 2006-07 school year, the program's score was 932, the highest it has been since the NCAA introduced the APR four years ago.
"We have some challenges with basketball. We think we have a great plan in place, (and) we're moving in the right direction," John Bruno, the university's faculty athletics representative, said yesterday after the NCAA released its latest APR data.
A program's APR score is an average of its scores for the past four years, in this case through the 2006-07 school year. Men's basketball and rifle were the only Ohio State sports to score below 925, which the NCAA equates to a 60 percent graduation rate.
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05-07-2008, 02:16 PM
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Just looking at the complete list of schools that took hits in football and basketball and what I find striking is the inverse relationship between lost scholarships and success on the court/field.
Rivals.com College Football - It's academic: NCAA reveals APR sanctions
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I will reiterate what I have said the Basketball Recruiting thread that I am very concerned about our APR next year with Kostas leaving this Spring without completing his coursework, Wallace transferring, and the possibility of BJ leaving next season and possibly Buford. I think we will lose one scholarship at the least because of KK.
Sometimes the price of winning has prepaid with the price of losing unfortunately. I know that going to semesters would help out greatly but that is a 2-3-year process once the Board of Trustees agrees to go that route.
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