Tony Kornheiser was just on PTI talking about how the APR "cost Calhoun his job". The ban was announced, if I'm remembering correctly, around September of 2011. Two and a half years later, I'm still furious that nobody in the media, besides Bilas, bothered to even research the APR - from what it measures, to how it was applied - on a basic level. People hear the word "academic" and immediately tap into their inner self-righteousness, when the entire system is more about retention rate than anything else.
Think about it from Shabazz's standpoint: from day one at UConn, he, and his teammates, have done nothing but exceed standards on the court and in the classroom. Suddenly his junior season rolls around, and his team can't play in the tournament, two of his teammates bail ship for greener pastures, two others declare for the draft, the coach that recruited him retired, and on top of all that, you have all sorts of pretentious s in the media and in opposing student sections who are now under the impression that he and his teammates are dumb. If you have a bone to pick with Calhoun, fine. Don't like the program? Fine. But anybody who criticizes Napier, an innocent bystander to the whole situation, can go to hell.
