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NCAA targets academics in baseball
By Jack Carey, USA TODAY
College baseball players will no longer be able to transfer from one school to another without sitting out a year and teams that underperform academically will have their playing schedules reduced under proposals adopted Thursday by the NCAA Board of Directors.
"I think this will be a sea change in the academic culture of baseball," said Walter Harrison, chair of the NCAA Executive Committee and president of the University of Hartford.
A baseball academic enhancement committee, formed to study the sport's academic problems a year ago, proposed a four-pronged package to the board, committee chairman Ron Wellman said Thursday.
The group was put together a year ago when the Board of Directors threatened an across-the board reduction in baseball's schedule after the sport's Academic Progress Rate (APR) was deemed to be substandard.
The APR is the NCAA's tool for measuring classroom achievement. It's based on two equal parts: how long an athlete remains at a specific school and the athlete's advancement toward a degree. . . .
Wellman outlined the proposals, which passed Thursday and are effective Aug. 1, 2008:
•Players must be academically certified for the fall term in order to play the next spring. This will encourage players to take more courses during the season and in summer school.
•Players must now have a year in residence if they transfer from one school to another.
•Teams will continue to offer a maximum of 11.7 scholarships per roster, but each player will now receive a minimum of the equivalent of 33% of a grant-in- aid. The maximum number of players who can be on scholarship will be 27. Currently there is no limit.
•Playing schedules for teams that fall below an APR score of 900 will be reduced by 10%. Teams currently can play 56 games, which would thus be reduced to 50. The NCAA says a score of 925 equates to about a 60% graduation rate. . . . (read more)
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NCAA targets academics in baseball
By Jack Carey, USA TODAY
College baseball players will no longer be able to transfer from one school to another without sitting out a year and teams that underperform academically will have their playing schedules reduced under proposals adopted Thursday by the NCAA Board of Directors.
"I think this will be a sea change in the academic culture of baseball," said Walter Harrison, chair of the NCAA Executive Committee and president of the University of Hartford.
A baseball academic enhancement committee, formed to study the sport's academic problems a year ago, proposed a four-pronged package to the board, committee chairman Ron Wellman said Thursday.
The group was put together a year ago when the Board of Directors threatened an across-the board reduction in baseball's schedule after the sport's Academic Progress Rate (APR) was deemed to be substandard.
The APR is the NCAA's tool for measuring classroom achievement. It's based on two equal parts: how long an athlete remains at a specific school and the athlete's advancement toward a degree. . . .
Wellman outlined the proposals, which passed Thursday and are effective Aug. 1, 2008:
•Players must be academically certified for the fall term in order to play the next spring. This will encourage players to take more courses during the season and in summer school.
•Players must now have a year in residence if they transfer from one school to another.
•Teams will continue to offer a maximum of 11.7 scholarships per roster, but each player will now receive a minimum of the equivalent of 33% of a grant-in- aid. The maximum number of players who can be on scholarship will be 27. Currently there is no limit.
•Playing schedules for teams that fall below an APR score of 900 will be reduced by 10%. Teams currently can play 56 games, which would thus be reduced to 50. The NCAA says a score of 925 equates to about a 60% graduation rate. . . . (read more)
Go State!
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