9 ACC schools graduate 70% of football players

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The nine schools were honored by the American Football Coaches Association. Boston College & Duke graduated more than 90% of their football players. Big ups /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gifto the Eagles & Devils for this accomplishment. Seven(7) other ACC schools graduated 70% or better. Only Ga Tech, Miami & NC St failed to top 70%.
The stunner to me was the #1 graduating school for football, with a perfect 100%--SOUTHERN METHODIST U!!!! Also stunning was that Southern Mississippi joined SMU, BC, Duke, Northwestern & Notre Dame to grad more than 90%!
The SEC only had one(1) of it's 12 schools grad more than 70%--Auburn! That conference really cares about it's players. Why would any football player want to put out the blood, sweat & tears for that kind of a joke of an academic education in that League????

9 ACC schools grad 70% of their football players
 
I maintain that we graduate a lower rate because grade inflation has not hit our school to the degree it is seen at other places. Georgia Tech is a difficult place to complete in five or six years. There are no places to hide academically.

The NCAA will never solve any problems by measuring graduation rates. Comparing apples to oranges never yields any worthwhile conclusions.

I take pride in our lower grad rate. I do not think it is because our athletes are inferior students. I think it is because our degrees remain hard to earn.
 
GT has never, that I am aware of, graduated 70% of their student body. The traditional number is more like 50%. Only when the college ranking services began to use student retention as a criteria did GT try to do a beter job getting their graduation rate up (which is the proper thing to do IMO)into the 70% range.

It would be quite an accomplishment for GT to get their SAs graduating at the same rate as the Student body, IMO.

ALL private schools in America have a graduation rate in teh 90% range. from Dook, Emory, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, etc...
 
GTYellow, back when I was in school (the stone age) I remember reading somewhere that Tech was graduating around 39+% but like I said that was in the stone age. I am sure had I went to Tech straight out of hi school I would have been a GT flunk out!
 
Anyone remember the "Look to your left and look to your right... one of those two people won't be here when you graduate" speech you got during FASET?

I think the girl to my left and the guy to my right both failed out or transfered by their sophmore year. Ouch.
 
when I was there , the "look to your right and look to your left" statement was only one of the 3 of you will graduate.
 
Probably true that GOL said look you have a tough schedule so take x, y, or z. Heck even my adviser in Ugraduate school said the same. Take x or y and then next semester take the hard ones. So yes GOL might have said something similar. But to lay the blame at GOL don't think so. Tfowl we are debating your statements not a personality. If that were the case then we would be talking GOL, CCG, Braine etc. In fact you are the one who started the it's all GOL's fault.
 
Princeton however has gotten away from grade inflation and is moving in the other direction.
 
The closest I can figure that GOL could have influenced things was to tell the advisors that he expected his players to be eligible. They could have adjusted schedules to make sure that happened but failed to keep the athletes on schedule to graduate. I remember some of the stuff that came out during the early days of the probation issues as well as flunkgate and it seemed that many football players simply hadn't taken the courses they needed to be jrs and srs. GOL didn't do scheduling but he could have intimidated the advisors to the point they didn't do their jobs well. No excuse and I don't think George personally could have made it happen but I can see techfowl's point that having a football coach as hands on about academics as George seemed to be is a bad idea. Not that they should be as hands off as the first rules Chan worked under, but there has to be a happy medium of control and regimentation of players and academic integrity.
 
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