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Players in the classroom (Team GPA)

http://www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/051412aaa.html
Coach Meyer's programs achieve academically
He has fine graduation success rates and Academic Progress Rate scores

COLUMBUS, Ohio – It really shouldn’t come as a surprise that 44 Ohio State football players had a grade point average over 3.00 for the winter quarter, head coach Urban Meyer’s first at Ohio State, and a total that is second-most by the football team in the last five academic quarters.

It is not surprising because Ohio State traditionally boasts outstanding accomplishments from its student-athletes. Consider:

  • A school-record 548 student-athletes will be named OSU Scholar-Athletes this year;
  • Ohio State typically leads the Big Ten in annual Distinguished Scholars – those with a 3.70 or above grade point average for the year – and in Academic All-Big Ten Conference honorees; and
  • The football program has had the No. 1 Academic Progress Rate score among the Top 15 teams in the nation twice in the last three years, and its impressive 985 APR among all bowl teams in 2011-12 ranked fourth.
It also isn’t surprising because Meyer’s student-athletes and his programs, historically, achieve academically.

Meyer’s eight teams that have been rated with an Academic Progress Rate score – two at Utah and six at Florida – have a fine, single year average APR score of 966. This figure is not only considerably higher than the average Division I football score of 936 between 2003 and 2010, but it also places Meyer second among all coaches who have led a team to a BCS championship game.

While the single-year score is based on the number of student-athletes on that team, the multi-year APR provides the most accurate average APR for coaches who have been at an institution four consecutive years. And even using the multi-year average, Meyer’s last four Florida teams have the second-highest APR among championship game coaches with a 975 score.

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While the single-year score is based on the number of student-athletes on that team, the multi-year APR provides the most accurate average APR for coaches who have been at an institution four consecutive years. And even using the multi-year average, Meyer?s last four Florida teams have the second-highest APR among championship game coaches with a 975 score


Did somebody run this quote by ORD?
Typically he used to shit on Meyer's academic success at Florida.
In particular, laying a steaming pile on Tebow's major and graduation.
 
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BigWoof31;2155991; said:
Did somebody run this quote by ORD?
Typically he used to [Mark May] on Meyer's academic success at Florida.
In particular, laying a steaming pile on Tebow's major and graduation.

Surely you're not surprised that a message board it duplicitous about a situation when it benefits them.
 
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BigWoof31;2155991; said:
Did somebody run this quote by ORD?
Typically he used to [Mark May] on Meyer's academic success at Florida.
In particular, laying a steaming pile on Tebow's major and graduation.

I don't believe that I've ever indicted the overall academic record of Meyer's athletes at Florida. May have; doesn't ring a bell; don't plan on checking the archives.

As for Tebow's academic achievement or lack thereof, I certainly have criticized it. Not because he scored 890 on his SAT. Not because he hid out in a home ec major to either avoid any serious academic work or avoid exposure to ideas and lines of thought that might conflict with his religious indoctrination or both. OK, I may have criticized that.

My main scorn for Tebow was that they gave the half wit the Draddy Award, and Timmuh graciously accepted it without the slightest hint of self awareness or irony much less embarrassment. Seriously? A [censored]ing home ec major? When the award has always gone to people who actually challenged themselves in college....to [censored]ing Rhodes Scholar recipients and molecular genetics majors. In all of college football, the most deserving athlete they could find that year was a home ec major who scored 890 on his SAT? They gave it to him for simply being Timmuh, and it may have been the least deserved college football award in the history of college football.
 
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Great to hear so many of the guys hitting that 3.0 or better level. With the commitment that football takes, it really is quite an accomplishment.

Just not sure I'd really be touting "second most by the team in the last five academic quarters." Anytime you have to put oddly specific parameters like that, it just kinda... I dunno, it's like "he's the all time home run leader in day games on a Thursday after a rain out on the road."
 
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MD Buckeye;2154846; said:
https://twitter.com/#!/brdispatch

#OSU sent out release saying 44 #Buckeyes football players had 3.0 or better GPA in winter quarter, including all 6 early enrollee freshmen.

:banger: :banger: :banger:

[ESPiN]But they received tattoos for trinkets!!![/ESPiN]

I am glad to see there are young people still excelling at difficult situations like devotion to classwork and the game they love. Good on them.
 
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