If the NCAA tournament was decided by a team's academic performance . . .

[proud2BlibKansan]

If the NCAA tournament was decided by a team's academic performance the Jayhawks would already be the champions according to InsideHigherEd.com! http://bit.ly/doJjji



http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/03/15/ncaa

[lazarus]

1. well

thankfully they didn't decide our College Bowl matches on athletic ability.

[mzteris]

2. even if the % graduated is higher -

there's no way in HELL that Kansas has a BETTER EDUCATION that DUKE!! I mean, really, do you honestly believe a degree from Kansas is as "good" as one from DUKE?

[DURHAM D]

5. I don't know about that.

I am typing this from the shadow of the Duke chapel and over the past 20 years have met/become acquainted with a lot of students. With a few notable exceptions they are mostly kids from wealthy families that are best at being aggressive. Not smart. Not educated. Just aggressive. They seem to spend more time harassing professors, complaining if much is expected of them and trying to get out of doing any meaningful research/writing/studying.

JFTR - I have several family members over four generations that are KU grads.

So YES - I think a KU education is possibly as good or better than Duke. However, you won't leave school with the same opportunity for social power networking. In other words, no wall street job so less money.

[mzteris]

7. oh puhleeze

there's no way in hell a degree from "Kansas" can be considered in the same ballpark as a degree with "DUKE". they're miles apart and Duke carries prestige, not so much Kansas. Sorry. You're individual "stories" not withstanding.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. KU is an excellent school with a great reputation

They gave me a diploma :)

[Massacure]

14. I do believe you can get as good of an education at Kansas as you can at Duke.

The degree from Duke is better, but I'm not convinced the education is.

Prestige =/= Education.

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. Kansas has a player with a 3.9

That helps on this ranking.

[DURHAM D]

19. Totally agree. nt

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

3. Yea, that says a lot. You've got Texas in the Final Four.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Their players must be good students then

:)

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

8. Never mind.

[kywildcat]

6. I think Sr. Rose at Xavier would have something to say

about where Xavier lands on the above list. Xavier has one of the highest student athlete graduation rates in college-thanks to her. Someone can say they went to Duke, but if they don't have the paper showing they stuck it out, graduated and participated in a world class athletic program-then all of the schools listed above are training grounds for the pro's-nothing more.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/sports/ncaabasketball/16nun.html?scp=1&sq=Xavier&st=cse

edit for spelling

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. It's a rating of the current players' grades

[Renew Deal]

9. How does Cornell lose to Texas?

Or anyone else?

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. Their players have lower GPAs

[grantcart]

13. Interesting but Baylor and BYU are captive religious schools that

have high graduation rates but cannot be seriously considered honest halls of scholarship.

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. It's a ranking of the GPAs of the athletes

[Ocracoker16]

16. this really doesn't make much sense

Part of the problem is that you are not explaining what academic performance means in the context of this study. APR is based on keeping players elgible. I think that it is important to keep student athletes in school. However, I don't think that is the best indicator of academic excellence. How do you account for schools that have more rigorous academic programs making staying elgible more challenging. There are plenty of schools that make a big effort to keep kids elgible by putting them in the most basic of classes. Some schools have such a good reputation based on their athletic programs that professors feel like they can't flunk them so they just give them D's. There have been instances of coaches approaching professors and telling them that an F is not ok and they better give a D.

Statistics can be very misleading if they are not interpreted correctly. Using a statistic that is very specific to make a more generalized conclusion is irresponsible.

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. You make excellent points

But since my alma mater is going to win it all anyway, . . .

LOL

[kywildcat]

20. proud2blibKansan-I always look forward

to your posts-but I have to say-Kentucky might have something to say about this one.
:hug:

edit to add a hug in the name of college sports rivalry.

[proud2BlibKansan]

21. LOL

Should be exciting games the next few weeks.