Now please understand two things -
1) Noone likes the APR. Even those on the high side of the grade. But it is what it is - and it has teeth like I said.
2) Whether your players leave to go to the next level does not matter. Please read up on the criteria. It matters if the players that leave are registered in classes then withdraw after the schools drop/add deadlines. Trust me - OSU basketball knows all too well how that effects scores. 3 players that left for the NBA after the season. They had registered for Spring classes and we took a hit when they left school.
So if the APR (which I have said is not perfect) isn't a good way to judge the athletic departmants student athletes progress please list what you think is satisfactory.
BTW - I didn't hear clamoring from the north when tOSU was transitioning from Cooper to Tressel. I am constantly dumbfounded how short m*ch*g*n fans memories are.
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Originally Posted by bonds
You've got to be ****ing kidding me. APR has virtually nothing to do with the progress of student athletes. It's a lazy man's metric which appears to measure two things: Whether a student athlete is eligible from term to term, and whether a student athlete stays at the school. It's intellectually bankrupt NCAA bull****.
Michigan's numbers are deflated due primarily to a large number of transfers in the football program - due to roster size football is the 900 lb gorilla of APR. Some of the kids that left (thank you very little Kurt Wermers) left ineligible, a double whammy. Of course Michigan is going to have a lower APR number given the Carr-to-Rodriguez transition compared to the steady regime of the Sweatervest. If anything you should be ticked off at how high your APR number is - not enough guys going to the league.
Being proud of your school is great but for ****'s sake base it on something that means something, not some b.s. number the NCAA dreamt up to penalize the Florida States of the world.
Last edited by flabucki09; 06-18-2010 at 03:39 PM.