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ysubuck;1717407; said:
In all the expansion talk and other things going on in college football, I haven't heard anyone talk about this.

Check out where our beloved Buckeyes are in the APR rankings.

Oh, and check out where UM landed this time around.

OUCH!!!! (link)

Can I just say, again, how great it is to be a Buckeye?!?!?!
Lllllloyd Carr's fault.
 
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Auburn ranked low in NCAA?s most important academic measurement

Auburn?s top-ranked football team, which is preparing to play Oregon in Glendale, Ariz., for the national title on Monday, has tumbled in the N.C.A.A.?s most important academic measurement to No. 85 from No. 4 among the 120 major college football programs. The decline came after the university closed several academic loopholes following a New York Times article in 2006 that showed numerous football players padded their grade-point averages and remained eligible through independent-study-style courses that required little or no work. Auburn has earned a certain sort of praise from those who were its toughest critics in 2006. ?Auburn was in a rogue position and they corrected it,? said Gordon Gee, who in 2006, when he was Vanderbilt?s chancellor, was stunned that Auburn was ranked higher than his university. Gee is now president of Ohio State. ?When those loopholes are closed and the issue is dramatically different, it shows that the loophole was being used. I applaud Auburn. They really did make a concerted effort to curb those abuses. We should applaud them even if they dropped 80 points.? Auburn?s drop in the Academic Progress Rate, a four-year assessment of the movement toward graduation for a team?s players, is the third largest in college football since 2006, behind Mississippi?s (to 113 from 18) and Florida State?s (to 105 from 17). Since 2006, both Florida State and Michigan have endured academic scandals, with Michigan?s ranking falling to 84 from 27.

Entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/sports/ncaafootball/06auburn.html
 
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osugrad21;1854010; said:
From the Daily Beast....

The Dumbest College Sports Programs


The Smartest College Sports Programs


Buckeyes ranked 5th smartest overall program behind NW, ND, Missouri, and Duke.

EDIT: Rankings use football, men's and women's basketball over a multi-year average.

Both the national title game football teams are in the 10 dumbest. :lol:

What, the Harvard of the West not in the top [strike]five[/strike] 20 smartest teams? What a shock. :roll1:
 
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OSU football has its highest 4 year APR average ever at 985. Last 4 years were 984,995,991,971. Ranked 2nd in B1G to Northwestern. Michigan is last in the big ten. This came from Ken Gordon at the dispatch..so it could be wrong :)


That is good ammo to have at the NCAA hearing.
 
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Tlangs;1926895; said:
OSU football has its highest 4 year APR average ever at 985. Last 4 years were 984,995,991,971. Ranked 2nd in B1G to Northwestern. Michigan is last in the big ten. This came from Ken Gordon at the dispatch..so it could be wrong :)


That is good ammo to have at the NCAA hearing.

I don't see any connection here, how does that effect any possible NCAA violations? I can't see the NCAA agreeing to allow NCAA violations as long as the players graduate, etc.
 
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ScriptOhio;1926942; said:
I don't see any connection here, how does that effect any possible NCAA violations? I can't see the NCAA agreeing to allow NCAA violations as long as the players graduate, etc.

It could help against any possible perception that players are running rampant and not being student athletes. Tressel's protecting "good kids" comes off better than his protecting "bad kids". Doesn't change the fact that what he did was wrong, but it definitely could help mitigate things...
 
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Ohio State receives high grades
All sports score well for 2009-10 in NCAA's Academic Progress Rate
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
By Bill Rabinowitz
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

After months of serving as a punching bag for critics because of its football transgressions, Ohio State's athletics program got some positive off-field news yesterday.

The NCAA released its Academic Progress Rate results, and all of Ohio State's sports programs performed well above the minimum APR score of 925 that can trigger sanctions such as scholarship losses. A 925 is indicative of a graduation rate of 60 percent.

The men's baseball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey and volleyball teams achieved perfect 1,000 scores for the 2009-10 academic year, as did the women's basketball, fencing, field hockey, gymnastics, ice hockey, softball, swimming, tennis and volleyball teams.

The football team had an APR of 971 last year and a four-year-average APR of 985, which ranks in the 90th-100th percentile in the sport.

The men's basketball program, which lost two scholarships in 2009 because of a substandard APR due in part to early departures, had an APR last year of 986. Its four-year APR of 952 ranks in the 50th-60th percentile for its sport.

Twenty-two OSU programs had an above-average four-year APR for their sport. Only 11 had a below-average APR.

Cont...

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/sports/stories/2011/05/25/osu-receives-high-grades.html?sid=101
 
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MililaniBuckeye;1926944; said:
It could help against any possible perception that players are running rampant and not being student athletes. Tressel's protecting "good kids" comes off better than his protecting "bad kids". Doesn't change the fact that what he did was wrong, but it definitely could help mitigate things...

Ditto.


ie...the good Tressel has done outweighs the bad. Punish him for the deed he did but let him stick around to continue the good ie no show cause penalty.
 
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