Not surprised at all

Athletic director Greg McGarity told Kempner that academic targets “are difficult to achieve.”
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Bullshit. That ööööing school down there is a joke.
 
When Malcolm Mitchell is lauded as a hero for falling through the cracks, there are big time issues. The person that vetted that article didn't realize how bad that makes the school look. The sad thing is that they may not be the worst. Tyrone Prothro (graduate of the University of Alabama) testified before Congress that his Alabama education didn't prepare him for life after football. The 5k in student loan debt he has is an undue burden that is too great for him.
 
OMG the comments section.

One dwagfan posted that as far as he is concerned, the academics are totally unimportant to him as a fan.

GO JACKETS!!
byteback
 
APR is an almost completely worthless metric.
 
byteback said:
OMG the comments section.

One dwagfan posted that as far as he is concerned, the academics are totally unimportant to him as a fan.

GO JACKETS!!
byteback
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Academics are unimportant to me as a fan too. But if they're mediocre in football while sucking as an academic institution that's a double whammy.

We suck at football so we always have the "oh but we're so good in academics. Even our football players get good jobs after college." That's just masturbating with your own tears.
 
Akinji07 said:
Academics are unimportant to me as a fan too. But if they're mediocre in football while sucking as an academic institution that's a double whammy.

We suck at football so we always have the "oh but we're so good in academics. Even our football players get good jobs after college." That's just masturbating with your own tears.
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+1
Well said, akinji.
 
andrew said:
APR is an almost completely worthless metric.
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This. But I don't know a solution.

You get huge differences within schools (a Stanford Chemical Engineering major is very different than a Stanford African American Studies major), between schools with the same major (a GT Business major is very different than a uGA Business major), and between schools with incomparable majors (what does a uGA Physical Education major compare to at GT? A high school outreach course?)
 
I don't know who Molly Bloom is, but I would bet her job with the AJC is on the rocks with a piece like this.
 
I've said it before, I'll say it again. Cut state funding of athletic programs when they don't fulfill the academic bare minimums. Lols.
 
This is the first of stories about how bad Richt let things get in athens before he was run off. Couldn't win championships, couldn't graduate players, but now the ship has been righted, and Bama will be their bitch.
 
Ohio State is the poster child for this. Anyone remember the guy who had 2 years at OSU without a single credit that could be transferred to Maryland?
 
gtphd said:
This. But I don't know a solution.

You get huge differences within schools (a Stanford Chemical Engineering major is very different than a Stanford African American Studies major), between schools with the same major (a GT Business major is very different than a uGA Business major), and between schools with incomparable majors (what does a uGA Physical Education major compare to at GT? A high school outreach course?)
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The solution is to end the charade and not force players to try to graduate from a school that they are usually not qualified for to begin with while holding down the equivalent of a full time job (playing D1 football).

Allow them to go back and get their degree for free after they are done playing football, if they want/need it. At that point they'll know whether they will be making it in the pros so hopefully they'll focus, they'll actually have time to make academics a priority, and there will be no incentive for the school to dumb down classes or create fake majors.

We only try to measure graduation rates because the current system incentives cheating and dumbing down. Get rid of that incentive; fix the problem, not the symptom.

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andrew said:
The solution is to end the charade and not force players to try to graduate from a school that they are usually not qualified for to begin with while holding down the equivalent of a full time job (playing D1 football).

Allow them to go back and get their degree for free after they are done playing football, if they want/need it. At that point they'll know whether they will be making it in the pros so hopefully they'll focus, they'll actually have time to make academics a priority, and there will be no incentive for the school to dumb down classes or create fake majors.

We only try to measure graduation rates because the current system incentives cheating and dumbing down. Get rid of that incentive; fix the problem, not the symptom.

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Or just make it to where school is school and all students must meet the same requirements to get in - regardless of athletic ability.
 
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