APR Question

[grizpack]

Not Grizzly related, but I have an APR question. With the news that UNLV is banned from post season play this year because of APR, I wonder how a basketball team like Kentucky is ever eligible with APR. As I understand it, one of the components of APR is how many of your athletes in the sport graduate within a certain time limit.

Kentucky admittedly goes after the 1 and done kids. I doubt any of them continue to go to school regularly after moving on. How do they account for that?? Just curious.

 

[grizd]

This is a pretty good blog that points out the flaws of APR. As with all things NCAA it is severely flawed and punishes those athletes that stay and try to get their degree.

Long story short, if a kid leaves school they must leave in good academic standing regardless of their grade in school.

http://blog.syracuse.com/orangebasketball/2012/05/grading_college_basketball_is.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

 

[griz71]

This is a pretty good blog that points out the flaws of APR. As with all things NCAA it is severely flawed and punishes those athletes that stay and try to get their degree.

Long story short, if a kid leaves school they must leave in good academic standing regardless of their grade in school.

http://blog.syracuse.com/orangebasketball/2012/05/grading_college_basketball_is.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

And I doubt few, if any of those one and done "student/athletes" @ UK or other "institutions of higher learning" have been enrolled in much beyond elementary basket weaving....

 

[PlayerRep]

Players who leave for the NBA are not counted in the APR. Almost all of Kentucky's players who don't go to the NBA graduate. Calipari has had only one player leave school without being in good academic standing--at least as of a year or two ago.