Bilas ESPN insider article on APR

[CL82]

LINK

He's making the case for getting rid of it. Anyone with insider care to summarize?

 

[CTGoonie]

Haven't read the article but my guess is the NCAA takes his recommendation in April 2013.

 

[Fishy]

Long story made short - Bilas' thinks the APR isn't a useful measure of anything related to academic progress and it has resulted in some unintended consequences, such as athletes 'clustering' in certain majors.

None of it matters to us.

Semi-related note, if the Insider stuff is compelling enough to generate these threads, I would advise people to just subscribe. It's not expensive, it's pretty good and it includes the magazine. (Disclosure - I rarely read the magazine. The idea of a thing with printed words inside it is more and more foreign to my iPad-inclined brain. I stack 'em up and give them to my father in law.)

 

[huskyniner]

Seriously, you can get the ESPN magazine subsciption with free Insider access for like $4 per year.

 

[SubbaBub]

It's the freaking electronic age. Post quarterly or monthly progress reports and if you don't make grades, you sit for the rest of the semester. If a team has X numbers of players or transfers, not in good standing after any semester, they miss the next postseason.

Give last semester exceptions for signed pro contracts from the NBA and recognized foreign leagues.

Allow kids drafted at 18 to maintain their eligibility if the pass on signing a contract and allow them to re-enter the draft after 3 years, like baseball.

They are making this harder than it has to be.

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[HooperScooper]

For all those who believe in a conspiracy theory, here you go.

"The NCAA wanted a school like UConn, a big BCS school," said one college coach who asked to remain anonymous. "It made news, it created a buzz. It sent a message."

Well-intentioned APR has its critics

 

[huskyniner]

It's not really a "conspiracy theory" when it's obvious that's exactly what happened.