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Texas and NCAA APR
The NCAA is strongly implying that entry into the 2013 NCAA basketball tournament will be contingent upon an acceptable APR for each program. The 900 requirement will be phased into a 930 score requirement over two years and then to 940. The APR has become somewhat of a focus for the organization...
Texas Longhorns Rank Well in NCAA APR Results
The NCAA released a multi-year APR that tracks both institutions and individual coaches and the news for Longhorn athletics, particularly any program lucky enough to have Dr. Randa Ryan in charge of its academic progress, is excellent. Here's how Longhorn football, baseball, men's track,...
It's Not Plagiarism If You Link To It Needs A Break From Football
RAWK. Time to get mad (again). Big Ten Basketball Media Day was last week, and it was usual mix of previews, platitudes, and nuggets of news. Fran continues to talk the talk better than any Iowa coach in recent memory (in any sport); he can clearly articulate what he wants to do, but he's...
AD Bowlsby Wants Freshmen Prohibited From Interscholastic Play
Last week, NCAA president Mark Emmert held a presidential conference to discuss reforms needed for the NCAA. While the conference resulted in several new policy changes for the NCAA, most notably raising the minimum Academic Progress Rate (APR) requirement, several other policies were not...
Wednesday Night Dawg Bites: Hines Ward Wins, Mike Slive Gets Specific on Oversigning, and Some Bozo Takes Cheap Shots at Mark Richt
Since the Diamond Dogs are playing in the nightcap of the SEC Tournament, there’s no guarantee there will be actual sports news to report this evening, which means now is as good a time as any to address some ancillary matters of interest in Bulldog Nation; to wit: If someone had bothered to tell...
News and links roundup for 6/11
Lenn Robbins: The SEC is considering adding WVU and Louisville, and other expansion rumors. More APR fallout: Coach Schiano gave interviews to Rivals Radio and Paul Finebaum on the subject and expansion, saying nothing on the latter topic. Why again was he that more more open to WFAN last month?...
Georgia Bulldogs Excel on Tennis Court, in Classroom, and at Track and Field Competition; Depressive Kyle Still Sees Glass as Half-Empty
Because the debut of Manic Kyle Monday proved absolutely disastrous, it’s going to be all Depressive Kyle, all the time, here at Dawg Sports for the foreseeable future, until a turnaround is not merely evidenced by encouraging indicators but is instead an accomplished fact. (Beating the Florida...
Doing well again in APR
Rutgers announced earlier today that its football team scored 980 (out of a possible 1000) in the APR ratings, tying for third nationally with Duke. Rutgers is in elite company, as most of the other football teams that scored well aren't very good. The Rutgers athletic department certainly does a...
The Tim Brewster Era - Off the Field Issues...Academics are the key
Part 3 in a series of posts on the Tim Brewster Era. Public Relations Program Leadership Off the Field Issues Recruiting On the Field Year Three Off the Field - few issues, academics are mixed We touched on the EJ Jones case in part 2 and I'm not going to spend more time on it here. This...
Huskie athletes continue to excel in the classroom
APR (academic progress rate) scores are in, and we're golden: Northern Illinois teams scored above the 925 mark across the board, with 15 teams surpassing a 945 number. Last month, the NIU women's gymnastics (1000 APR) and volleyball (995) teams were publicly recognized as squads which rank in the...
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