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NCAA penalizes MEAC, SWAC for poor academics

INDIANAPOLIS -- NCAA President Mark Emmert expects athletes at historically black colleges and universities to make the grade -- and he's willing to help after seeing the results of the latest Academic Progress Rates.
The NCAA banned Jackson State and Southern of the Southwestern Athletic Conference from postseason play in football next season and did the same thing for Southern and Grambling in men's basketball, citing poor classroom performance by all three schools and a host of others in the SWAC and Mid-Eastern Athletic conferences.
The SWAC does not get an automatic bid to the NCAA's FCS playoffs, but its own conference title game could be affected.
The NCAA released the penalties Tuesday. Southern became the first school to be banned from the postseason in two sports in the same year -- football and men's basketball -- because of academic performance.
"You're right that there are a number of historically black colleges and universities that have been penalized, especially through the postseason ban," Emmert said. "We are concerned about that, have met with those institutions to help them develop ways for improvement and to help provide resources to help them be successful."
The impact of the penalties could swing the balance of power in the SWAC and MEAC, both comprised of HBCUs, and both of which get automatic bids to the NCAA basketball tourneys, too.
The numbers are striking: The NCAA evaluated more than 340 schools for the APR report but only 24 of them -- about 7 percent of the total -- are considered historically black colleges or universities.
Yet of the 58 harshest penalties handed out this year, fully half went to teams in these two conferences.
SWAC commissioner Duer Sharp told NCAA.org that turnover in school staff -- including school presidents - has hurt academic performance of athletes.
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Walter Harrison, president at the University of Hartford, said the NCAA's committee on academic performance is debating whether the supplementary support fund, which provides $1 million in grants to low-resource schools, is working the way it should or whether the NCAA can do more.
To Emmert, though, the bottom line is simple. Every school can improve in the classroom.
"You worry about the impact it [penalties] can have on any of those conferences, but the important thing is to promote the success of our student-athletes and that's our desire to promote academic success," he said. "It is also the case that we do need to be cognizant of the missions of HBCUs, which isn't the same as all of our institutions. It's asking them to complete their missions."

Entire article: http://www.cbssports.com/collegebas...7/ncaa-penalizes-meac-swac-for-poor-academics
 
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New NCAA guidelines will mean that teams with below a 4-year APR score of 930 are to be excluded from bowl games. This should be finalized later this year, and phased in over a 3-to-5 year period.

tOSU's APR was the highest among teams in the final 2010 polls, so the Buckeyes are in good shape on this issue.

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Higher APR cutline approved by NCAA committee

INDIANAPOLIS -- NCAA leaders are finally backing up their words with actions. Less than 24 hours after President Mark Emmert called for immediate changes in college sports, the NCAA's board of directors approved a measure that would include postseason bans if teams fall below the new Academic Progress Rate cutline. The new mark for the four-year rolling average will increase from 900 to 930. In October, NCAA leaders will consider when the new rules will take effect.

While the APR discussion was already on Thursday's docket before this week's two-day presidential retreat, it was the first chance university presidents could prove this time would be different.

They did.

"The very clear message from them [university presidents] was to start doing things now in August when you have the Division I board meeting and when you come back in October, in January, in April, this is something that needs to be done as Mark says in months, not years," Oregon State president Ed Ray said. "I think they would feel very good with the actions the board took, and saw that we are moving quickly and responsibly forward."

Yes, it's only one step.

But it's a big one. The board also voted unanimously to approve Emmert's push to impose harsher penalties for teams that underperform in the classroom, including postseason bans if they fall below the cutline.

There will be more discussion on how to implement the new APR structure and proposed sanctions in October. Walt Harrison, president of the University of Hartford and chairman of the committee on academic performance, said he expects the penalty structure to be phased in during a three to five-year period.

And it's likely any team with a four-year average will be ineligible even if the team score is improving. Current rules allow teams to be granted waivers if a team score improves significantly.

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Since it recently came up:

How the B1G schools fared in the most recent multiyear APR numbers (Source):

Northwestern's multiyear APR score leads all FBS programs and ranks second among all Division I programs behind Penn (995). Ohio State and Northwestern were the only Big Ten football programs publicly recognized for being in the top 10 percent nationally for multiyear APR scores.
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Northwestern: 993
Ohio State: 985
Penn State: 972
Wisconsin: 967
Indiana: 966
Nebraska: 958
Illinois: 949
Iowa: 947
National average = 946
Purdue: 939
Michigan State: 938
Minnesota: 935
Michigan: 928

TSUN's multiyear APR score dropped for the fourth consecutive year, down from 936 (2008-09). The good news is Michigan remains above the 925 cut line for its multiyear rate.
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Northwestern: 993
Ohio State: 985
Penn State: 972
Wisconsin: 967
Indiana: 966
Nebraska: 958
Illinois: 949
Iowa: 947
National average = 946
Purdue: 939
Michigan State: 938
Minnesota: 935
Michigan: 928

Part of Tressel's (positive) accomplishments that ESPN won't be reporting. :biggrin:


 
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Muck;2045943; said:
Since it recently came up:

How the B1G schools fared in the most recent multiyear APR numbers (Source):



Northwestern: 993
Ohio State: 985
Penn State: 972
Wisconsin: 967
Indiana: 966
Nebraska: 958
Illinois: 949
Iowa: 947
National average = 946
Purdue: 939
Michigan State: 938
Minnesota: 935
Michigan: 928
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10 points below Michigan State and their "send a 'tard to college" program.

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ScriptOhio;2046140; said:
Northwestern: 993
Ohio State: 985
Penn State: 972
Wisconsin: 967
Indiana: 966
Nebraska: 958
Illinois: 949
Iowa: 947
National average = 946
Purdue: 939
Michigan State: 938
Minnesota: 935
Michigan: 928

Part of Tressel's (positive) accomplishments that ESPN won't be reporting. :biggrin:
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Amen
 
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LordJeffBuck;2046160; said:
And guess what? Those select few who actually do graduate from Michigan are stuck with worthless kinesiology degrees.
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Michigan does have a great job placement program for graduates now though.

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That score (928) is notable:
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/6853878/ncaa-committee-approves-increase-apr-cutline
Following up on the retreat's mandate to toughen academic standards, the NCAA Board of Directors voted to ban Division I teams with a four-year academic progress rate (APR) below 930 from participating in the postseason, including all NCAA tournaments and football bowl games.
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(Note: BB73 posted the same article a few posts above... didn't realize it until right after I posted this)
 
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