Criteria for success for KO as a coach longterm at UCONN

[whaler11]

APR is a joke, absolute joke. High APR means schools are not taking academics seriously.

Yes schools like Duke, Notre Dame, Northwestern and Stanford don't take academics seriously. Their APR proves it.

Yale, Penn and Brown have high scores because they are athletic factories that look the other way.

 

[willie99]

Glad to see lots of fellow fans want to normalize expectations and include APR and graduation rates in their criteria for success. I'm with you. Let's win with pride!

APR has more to do with kids not transferring than academics

it will also be self-defeating by
1) reducing the likelihood that programs will take chances on inner-city that are not studs
2) encouraging programs to implement majors for athletes only so they're less likely to lose revenues
3) discouraging programs from allowing recruits to take real majors, can't put financial survival in jeopardy

like most bureaucracies, the NCAA gets everything a$$backwards

 

[upstater]

Yes schools like Duke, Notre Dame, Northwestern and Stanford don't take academics seriously. Their APR proves it.

Yale, Penn and Brown have high scores because they are athletic factories that look the other way.

Yale, Brown, Penn? They are our peer institutions? That's what the original post was about.
And you'd be surprised about the first four. Don't kid yourself, you've been bamboozled. Harvard has failing APR. They try to do academics right, and then there's Duke and ND with clustering: http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/101227/

Bilas is always talking about clustering because he experienced it firsthand.

 

[David 76]

There is a breed of UCONN fan that reacts to every shortcoming of the program by attacking the measuring stick and the NCAA. This is exactly the thinking from fans & alum that create the culture and pressure to excuse players and coaches until things get out of hand.
We had a period of 2 or 3 years when, out of all the students admitted, only 1 graduated. Obviously there was nothing for us to learn. Our APR was among the very lowest in the whole country. Not enough "gut" courses at UCONN. Too many poor kids leave college without a degree and not enough basketball skills to make it as a pro. The problem is we make the players focus too much on academics? Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

 

[whaler11]

Yale, Brown, Penn? They are our peer institutions? That's what the original post was about.
And you'd be surprised about the first four. Don't kid yourself, you've been bamboozled. Harvard has failing APR. They try to do academics right, and then there's Duke and ND with clustering: http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/101227/

Bilas is always talking about clustering because he experienced it firsthand.

Your quote is that schools with high APR don't take academics seriously.

No matter what the ranking, in any discipline you're there to tell us it's wrong. It's amazing how you can track everything from Creighton basketball to the CFB computer rankings to APR to true academics at every university .,. and yet at the same time have never heard of Jameis Winston.