Bilas ESPN insider article on APR
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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.
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None of it matters to us.
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Seriously, you can get the ESPN magazine subsciption with free Insider access for like $4 per year.
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Your stupidity is ruining my country.
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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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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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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
"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
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It's not really a "conspiracy theory" when it's obvious that's exactly what happened.
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