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The Legacy of Kelvin Sampson - 41% Graduation rate
Way to go Kelvin!
What a great, lasting impact he is having on young people's lives!
By the way, what they are talking about is a figure called the GSR (Graduation Success Rate)
which the NCAA uses to determine how a coach or a program is doing.
All the GSR data is available if you want to dig through the NCAA website, but let me help a bit.
http://www.ncaa.org/wps/portal/!ut/p/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLN4j3CQXJgFjGpvqRqC KOcAFfj_zcVH1v_QD9gtzQiHJHRUUAc0tpTA!!/delta/base64xml/L3dJdyEvUUd3QndNQSEvNElVRS82XzBfTFU!?CONTENT_URL=h ttp://www2.ncaa.org/portal/media_and_events/press_room/2006/september/20060927_d1_gradsuccessrate_rls.html
(copy and paste this whole web address to get the NCAA article)
And to search for an individual school's results use this page:
http://www.ncaa.org/wps/portal/!ut/p/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLN4j3CQXJgFjGpvqRqC KOcAFfj_zcVH1v_QD9gtzQiHJHRUUAc0tpTA!!/delta/base64xml/L3dJdyEvUUd3QndNQSEvNElVRS82XzBfTFU!?CONTENT_URL=h ttp://www2.ncaa.org/portal/academics_and_athletes/education_and_research/academic_reform/gsr/2006/d1_school_gsr_data.html
(again, be sure to cut and paste the entire address as the link may not work)
Check out this one, and I'll bet you don't see this figure quoted in the PJS
I too would like to see an explanation of how the Northern Iowa basketball graduation rate can be just 22%
I went to the panthernation board, and not only don't they have amention of it, they actually don't have a post on any subject in 3-4 days.
I too would like to see an explanation of how the Northern Iowa basketball graduation rate can be just 22%
I went to the panthernation board, and not only don't they have amention of it, they actually don't have a post on any subject in 3-4 days.
Oh well, maybe one of their posters will stumble over here and give an answer.
Maybe they're all busy working in the fields harvesting pumpkins (or whatever crop is ready to be picked/planted).
Greg McDermott seems to be getting the worst of these figures.
He wasn't even at UNI when those athletes were failing to graduate, the coach then was Sam Weaver.
But, now McDermott is in the midst of a bit of trouble over at Iowa State, as the news there is (if you can believe it) even far worse than at UNI.
The basketball graduation rate at IOWA STATE was just 12%
This is the legacy of Tim Floyd and Larry Eustachy.
I found an article in which the present New Mexico coaches are already spinning excuses just incase their numbers continue to be bad in the future.
Here is the reason they cite: "(Ruben) Douglas and (Danny) Granger bypassed finishing school (didn't graduate) for professional basketball."
Yea, New Mexico must have a lot of those kinds of guys, way more than Duke or UNC.
Why yooze guyz all ways piking on mee and da LoBozos??? Cuz Im the Head Koach, Iz tak reel good kare of me playerz an tell them thay kneed too fokus on geting reedy for the NBA. Howz grajuating goin to madder when youze playin for da Bullz ore da Lackers?
I found an article in which the present New Mexico coaches are already spinning excuses just incase their numbers continue to be bad in the future.
Here is the reason they cite: "(Ruben) Douglas and (Danny) Granger bypassed finishing school (didn't graduate) for professional basketball."
Yea, New Mexico must have a lot of those kinds of guys, way more than Duke or UNC.
Ruben Douglas spent 5 years in college (1 at Arizona and 4 full years at New Mexico since he had to sit out a year after transferring). Then after using up his eligibility and receiving the NCAA allowable maximum 5 years of scholarship support, he left to play pro ball in Greece.
For anyone to use his case as an excuse for low graduation rates is insane. Ruben Douglas' case exemplifies exactly what the problem is that the NCAA is addressing. 5 years of college under a full scholarship, 1 redshirt year plus 4 years of Division I basketball with all the academic support these schools provide the student-athletes, and he still wasn't close enough to graduate? What the hey was he doing all that time? Was he even going to class?
That, Ritchie McKay, is exactly what the problem is all about!!
More really bad news for New Mexico.
No more excuses and blaming Dave Bliss, Fran Fraschilla, and other past coaches,
Now it's time for Ritchie McKay to step up to the plate and face the heat.
Here's proof that Ritchie McKay's pattern of recruiting troubled kids and transfers was bad.
It turns out that New Mexico's graduation rates and academic success measures have taken an even bigger dive.
Now the Lobos are even going to lose scholarships
And guess what? Danny Granger is even part of this. They mortgaged their future.
Even if they relish the one NCAA trip they got when Granger was there, Danny left early for the pro workouts
and never graduated, and he contributes to the statistics that are now going to cost New Mexico scholarships.
(and he even had a whole year off when he transferred to work on his academics!)
What a bombshell Steve Alford finds falling into his lap.
Two full years with scholarship losses!
But Steve didn't help himself by recruiting kids like Darrington Hobson, Dairese Gary,
and Monquel Pegues who have either had academic issues all along or are having trouble getting qualified.
Then keeping JR Giddens resulted in him failing academically, too.
This sounds similar to DeAaron Williams.
Some of Alford's recruits are nearly 20 hours short of being academically qualified, even after two full years of junior college.
Sound familiar?
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