Perfect APR Scores!

[Mazhude]

UConn men, women post perfect APR scores in 2021-22

Very well done!

 

[Chin Diesel]

Congrats on players for doing well.

Congrats to UConn staff for learning how the system works.

 

[Waquoit]

Who cares? Seriously?

 

[How Sway?!]

Who cares? Seriously?

Idk man, I feel like college kids being in good standing academically while maintaining high level D1 commitments is something that should be celebrated. But that's just me

 

[Inyatkin]

I'm worried that as time goes on fewer people will remember how utterly insane our 2013 postseason ban was. It'll just be "UConn was banned for low APR scores." The entire retroactive rule change that made it impossible to comply will be forgotten.
And the fact that it worked out fine for us the year after doesn't make it ok.

 

[uchusky32]

Who cares? Seriously?

The B10! This was the missing piece to an invite!

 

[auror]

I didn't know they still did this

 

[superjohn]

I'm worried that as time goes on fewer people will remember how utterly insane our 2013 postseason ban was. It'll just be "UConn was banned for low APR scores." The entire retroactive rule change that made it impossible to comply will be forgotten.
And the fact that it worked out fine for us the year after doesn't make it ok.

Outside of UConn fans nobody cares or even remembers.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Who cares? Seriously?

Idk man, I feel like college kids being in good standing academically while maintaining high level D1 commitments is something that should be celebrated. But that's just me

I'm worried that as time goes on fewer people will remember how utterly insane our 2013 postseason ban was. It'll just be "UConn was banned for low APR scores." The entire retroactive rule change that made it impossible to comply will be forgotten.
And the fact that it worked out fine for us the year after doesn't make it ok.

This thread topic is another BY annual rite of spring.

I really hope the players take advantage of whatever academic opportunities come their way while playing at UConn. I am sure some take it more seriously than others, but that's on them. I have little doubt with computers, wifi, etc and an increase in remote and distance learning the players can now be exposed to more learning even if they are in the classroom less.

UConn's admin across the board had to learn to play the game with numbers and timing of transfers in and out.

I don't think fans anywhere across the country care in great numbers why any team got banned for a particular year. Most fans wouldn't even know what teams were banned in a particular season. The absurdity of creating a rule, making it retroactive and giving a program no chance to recover from that decision is just one reason why fans don't care about NCAA rulings. Every fan is convinced every NCAA ruling against their program is bogus and every NCAA violation against opponents' programs is proof of low down, dirty, slimy, cheating summbiches.

 

[Kenny11]

I'm worried that as time goes on fewer people will remember how utterly insane our 2013 postseason ban was. It'll just be "UConn was banned for low APR scores." The entire retroactive rule change that made it impossible to comply will be forgotten.
And the fact that it worked out fine for us the year after doesn't make it ok.

I kind of remember it was the president of UHart that was sticking it up our butts, right?

 

[Inyatkin]

Outside of UConn fans nobody cares or even remembers.

I'm talking about UConn fans

 

[upstater]

Idk man, I feel like college kids being in good standing academically while maintaining high level D1 commitments is something that should be celebrated. But that's just me

I think his point is that APR scores have little correlation with academic standing.

 

[husky429]

I think his point is that APR scores have little correlation with academic standing.

We'll get a perfect APR next year, and we had players who didn't attend a class for 5+ months during our championship season. Schools have learned how to play the APR game.

 

[upstater]

We'll get a perfect APR next year, and we had players who didn't attend a class for 5+ months during our championship season. Schools have learned how to play the APR game.

APR is a great acronym.

A phony metric designed with emphasis on the last 2 letters of the acronym.

It stands for Academic Public Relations, right?

 

[Spaceman213J]

I never got the NCAA punishing a group of players for what a group that mostly came before them did or did not do.

 

[CL82]

I'm worried that as time goes on fewer people will remember how utterly insane our 2013 postseason ban was. It'll just be "UConn was banned for low APR scores." The entire retroactive rule change that made it impossible to comply will be forgotten.
And the fact that it worked out fine for us the year after doesn't make it ok.

We had a trifecta of arbitrary and inequitable application of NCAA rules that year:

1) the rule change was applied retroactively;
2) we had previously been punished under the prior application of the rule, and had lost scholarships. We were punished twice for the same year; and
3) the NCAA refused to include current data, which would have made us compliant, even under the new rule change. Their justification was that “other schools might not have time to submit their information”. How the heck does that make any sense?

For what it’s worth, former University of Hartford president Walter Harrison shouldn’t be able to reserve a restaurant table in Connecticut. And he could’ve put a stop to this witchhunt at any time and chose not to.

 

[Waquoit]

Idk man, I feel like college kids being in good standing academically while maintaining high level D1 commitments is something that should be celebrated. But that's just me

Just you is impressed with meeting an arbitrary standard that proves nothing? And you want to celebrate a student with every academic advantage not flunking out? Talk about soft bigotry...

Bottom line for me is celebrating this nonsense gives it credibility. It should forever be mocked.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

Bottom line for me is celebrating this nonsense gives it credibility. It should forever be mocked.

This x 100000

 

[Wise2]

And UNC skates with their fake classes. priceless...

 

[businesslawyer]

Just you is impressed with meeting an arbitrary standard that proves nothing? And you want to celebrate a student with every academic advantage not flunking out? Talk about soft bigotry...

Bottom line for me is celebrating this nonsense gives it credibility. It should forever be mocked.

One can mock it as a test -- as you said, it should be mocked -- and still be pleased that the program has figured out how to play the game.

 

[uconndogs]

I don't think it will be very long before academics and college athletics are disconnected. NCAA influence at the highest level of college athletics is waning and will continue to do so. There's too much money involved to knock athletes or programs out of contention for mere academic reasons. Hell.......Alabama basketball had kids who may be been accessories to a murder and they still played in the tourney. If a pending felony doesn't preclude participation it's hard to imagine anyone cares about GPAs.

 

[Waquoit]

One can mock it as a test -- as you said, it should be mocked -- and still be pleased that the program has figured out how to play the game.

Geez, that was 3 coaches ago. You still think that's worth a cookie?

 

[Mr. Wonderful]

One can mock it as a test -- as you said, it should be mocked -- and still be pleased that the program has figured out how to play the game.

Fine, as long as we never lose sight of how utterly phony it all is.

 

[August_West]

The B10! This was the missing piece to an invite!

Yeah right.

 

[SubbaBub]

I'm shocked, shocked, to find that gambling is going on in here.