NCAA: Grad rates up in FB, BB and Baseball

[JackJD]

The NCAA is reporting graduation rates are up in football, basketball and baseball. A portion of the article on ESPN.com:

A clip from the article:
Only two schools had 100 percent graduation rates in football -- Boston University and Robert Morris. Boston's rating, however, was based only on players that enrolled in 1997 because the university dropped football after that season.
Davidson was next at 99 percent, followed by Furman and Georgetown at 97 percent and Alcorn State and William & Mary at 96 percent. Twenty others graduated at least 90 percent of their football players.
The worst, all in the Championship Subdivision, were Florida A&M at 22 percent, Idaho State at 28 percent, Savannah State at 30 percent, and Central Connecticut State and Gardner-Webb at 33 percent. The lowest rate for a Bowl Subdivision school was 36 percent at San Jose State.

I think we'll see Furman in the near future as an out-of-conference opponent. Furman is highly-regarded academically and is consistently one of the better FCS programs. It can be done!

Full story link: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/...=NCAAHeadlines

[JimmyJack]

Re: NCAA: Grad rates up in FB, BB and Baseball

I see the Oklahoma Sooners increased their football grad rate all the way up to 37 percent (as I recall, the last time it was released, it was in the 20s.) They're at 29 (raw) and 46 (with transfers) for basketball. Interesting considering that only one player graduated during the entire time Kelvin Sampson was there (nice hire Indiana!).

Back to football: If you account for transfers, OU is at 44 percent.

Compare that to Iowa (59 percent, 73 with transfers accounted for) or Nebraska (77 percent, 83 with transfers).

It really says something about what an institution values.