On a positive note...

[mauconnfan]

http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-men/hc-uconn-men-notebook-apr-scores-0510-20170508-story.html

 

[nyhuskies13]

Also, no one has left the program or been in fired throughout the last 2-3 weeks

Got that going for us

 

[HuskyHawk]

So we've got that going for us.

 

[HooperScooper]

This is all you need to know about how schools can easily manipulate the APR to their advantage.

All 22 University of Kentucky athletic programs make NCAA APR cut

 

[mauconnfan]

This is all you need to know about how schools can easily manipulate the APR to their advantage.

All 22 University of Kentucky athletic programs make NCAA APR cut

We all know it's flawed anyway but this makes everything about the NCAA flawed. Would love to see how all of those kids who knew they weren't returning to school for year 2 "really did" in their 2nd semesters there. Hilarious to even think many of them even saw a classroom.

 

[RGay2006]

So we've got that going for us.

Lmao

 

[UConnNick]

We all know it's flawed anyway but this makes everything about the NCAA flawed. Would love to see how all of those kids who knew they weren't returning to school for year 2 "really did" in their 2nd semesters there. Hilarious to even think many of them even saw a classroom.

We've had our fair share of players who didn't bother attending school during the spring semester once they'd decided to go pro. The only difference between us and almost all of the other schools is we were stupid enough to report it all.

 

[HooperScooper]

We've had our fair share of players who didn't bother attending school during the spring semester once they'd decided to go pro. The only difference between us and almost all of the other schools is we were stupid enough to report it all.

I think that is where Calhoun was most lax. He let that happen. Whereas after the post season ban the school makes sure all the kids leaving early, including transfers, finish off the semester in good standing. Kentucky obviously learned earlier to do this. And I'm with Mau on this, yeah I'm sure all the Kentucky kids finish off the semester with flying colors when they all know they will be multi-millionaires in a few short months whether they get good grades or not.

 

[Hoophound]

It wasn't really JC's fault. UConn just didn't play the game correctly and that was Hathaway's fault. That's why it took Warde 10 minutes to fix it.

 

[pj]

UConn had an athletic department with no experience in big time athletics. Hathaway ran the department like we were in Div 2.

Of course, it could have been run worse. We could have had UNC's athletic department, in which case the basketball program would still be under the death penalty.

 

[crazyUCfan23]

The fact that Kentucky has a perfect APR score is an absolute joke.

 

[JSM1970]

Why not, they are very organized for what they do, they take advantage of the NBA rule

Why didn't UConn and KO do this? He should have more credibility having played 10+ years in the league

Instead we struggle to land top 3* top 150 kids

The fact that Kentucky has a perfect APR score is an absolute joke.

 

[Hi-Low]

Why not, they are very organized for what they do, they take advantage of the NBA rule

Why didn't UConn and KO do this? He should have more credibility having played 10+ years in the league

Instead we struggle to land top 3* top 150 kids

You are clearly not "we"...........that is all.

 

[Danzz]

Why not, they are very organized for what they do, they take advantage of the NBA rule

Why didn't UConn and KO do this? He should have more credibility having played 10+ years in the league

Instead we struggle to land top 3* top 150 kids

We haven't had any problems under KO. Our APR problems were all on JC.

 

[intlzncster]

I think that is where Calhoun was most lax. He let that happen. Whereas after the post season ban the school makes sure all the kids leaving early, including transfers, finish off the semester in good standing. Kentucky obviously learned earlier to do this. And I'm with Mau on this, yeah I'm sure all the Kentucky kids finish off the semester with flying colors when they all know they will be multi-millionaires in a few short months whether they get good grades or not.

'Finish off the semester in good standing' seems to imply that UK is on the kids to attend classes and get their grades. In reality, as most schools do, UK cooks the book, although probably to a more egregious degree. I mean, this is the school that allows it's recruits to train full time in another city entirely once the season is over. The kids take 'online classes'. And their courses are 'independent study'. For freshman. Who put zero emphasis on schools. That all adds up. Sure.

 

[intlzncster]

Why not, they are very organized for what they do, they take advantage of the NBA rule

Why didn't UConn and KO do this? He should have more credibility having played 10+ years in the league

Instead we struggle to land top 3* top 150 kids

Probably things like WWW and Drake et al. And absurd amount of media coverage. And of course, being led by one of the greatest snake-oil-salesman-circus-promoters of our time.