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Message: [QUOTE="BlueMAB, post: 2408140, member: 920"] [I] "The APR is calculated as follows: [/I] [LIST] [*][I]Each student-athlete receiving athletically related financial aid earns one point for staying in school and one point for being academically eligible.[/I] [*][I]A team’s total points are divided by points possible and then multiplied by 1,000 to equal the team’s Academic Progress Rate.[/I] [*][I]In addition to a team’s current-year APR, its rolling four-year APR is also used to determine accountability."[/I] [/LIST] [URL='http://www.ncaa.org/aboutresources/research/academic-progress-rate-explained']Academic Progress Rate Explained[/URL] We were put on probation for the APR rate. Players were transferring, and/or leaving early, and weren't academically eligible. You can be on track to graduate within 4-5 years (with summer session courses) and not be academically eligible. Depending on the credits, 2 Cs a B and an F gets you a 1.75 and you're ineligible, but that one class could be made up. For guys who are C students, all it takes is them blowing off an entire spring semester and that GPA can drop below 2.0. Leave that summer, and UConn gets hit both for the eligibility and possibly the transfer too. The players were at least as responsible for their education as the coaches. While some guys would harm the APR, others graduated in 3 years AND went pro. It's unair to put all the blame on the staff, the players are accountable too. Both the players and staff should have done better, but to your point about not leaving with a degree: a player leaving early, while academically eligible and on track to graduate in 4-5 years (the national average is around 6) to pursue a career isn't inherently a poor decision. Transferring isn't inherently a poor decision. UConn's problem was a combination of transfers who just stopped trying, with a staff who didn't stay on top of them. Yes, the graduation rate was poor, but when the national average to graduate is 6 years, and the public university average is 5 years, it's not all that surprising that UConn would "graduate" players who have used their 4 years of eligibility, but are still 1 semester or 1 year (or more) short. I'm not excusing it, it's an embarrassing stat. But while the traditional student doesn't have a lot of the same support, they may not have the same time constraints, they also have the added incentive/burden of financing their education which tends to motivate them to finish sooner. These guys are going to school for free to play basketball, it's obvious too many of them didn't take the education seriously. And UConn didn't do enough to keep them on track. I don't find it surprising, just disappointing. [/QUOTE]

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