Georgia Tech does well in APR — updated with ACC’s excellence
Georgia Tech’s football and men’s basketball teams posted the biggest improvements in APR scores in information released on Wednesday.
The APR, or Academic Progress Report, measures the eligibility, retention and graduation of athletes on every Division I team in all sports. It is designed to serve as a predictor of future graduation success. The APR scores released are four-year rates based on the 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09 academic years.
The football team’s score increased for the third consecutive year, reaching 993, the fourth-highest score nationally and tops in the conference, according to the ACC. The team’s multi-year average of 967 is tied for the third-best score among ACC teams, behind Duke and Miami.
The ACC led all conferences for the fourth straight year in APR (962.4 avg.). Seven ACC schools were ranked in the Top 32 including Clemson (tied for 11th with Vanderbilt, 982). Additionally, Duke (19th, 976), Wake Forest (23rd, 974), Virginia (28th, 972), Boston College (971, 30th) and Miami (32nd, 969) were ranked in the Top 32.
Using the four-year APR numbers, the ACC still finished first for the fourth straight year (955.5) with Duke ranked 5th (983) nationally and Miami 6th (978). Tech ranks behind Georgia (973) in football, but not far, as they are tied with Boston College and Clemson for 23rd place despite a coaching change which always hurts your retention factor in the APR. Using the four-year numbers 7 ACC schools are ranked in the Top 34 including Wake Forest (28th, 966) and North Carolina (947, 34th)
The men’s basketball team’s score was 953, an improvement of 113 points from last year, when it was penalized with the loss of two scholarships. That penalty was served during the 2008-09 season. Its multi-year average of 908 is last among ACC schools. Because it didn’t have a player who left school and was ineligible, the team wasn’t penalized.
“To see our overall scores improve for a third straight year is very encouraging,” Georgia Tech athletic director Dan Radakovich said in a statment. “It’s a tribute to our student-athletes, coaches and staff.
“At the same time, we will continue to strive to raise our numbers each and every year.”
Four teams – golf, volleyball and men’s and women’s cross-country – had perfect scores of 1,000. Baseball (989) was also recognized for ranking in the top 10 percent of its sport nationally.
No Tech team was penalized.
Here are Tech’s scores for the past three years:
Georgia Tech
Multi-Year APR 2006-07/ 2007-08/2008-09
Baseball/974/*989/*989
Men’s Basketball/931/914/908
Men’s Cross Country/950/974/*1000
Football/951/957/967
Golf/1000/*1000/*1000
Men’s Swimming/975/970/974
Men’s Tennis/959/961/976
Men’s Indoor Track/951/955/962
Men’s Outdoor Track/949/953/962
Women’s Basketball/957/952/946
Women’s Cross Country/993/993/*1000
Softball/967/981/985
Women’s Swimming/997/994/990
Women’s Tennis/985/978/978
Women’s Indoor Track/988/986/982
Women’s Outdoor Track/990/988/984
Volleyball/990/*1000/*1000
*Earned NCAA Public Recognition Awards by finishing in the top 10 percent nationally within that sport.
Football multi-year scores
Duke/983
Miami/978
Georgia Tech/967
Clemson/967
Boston College/967
Wake Forest/966
UNC/957
Virginia/947
Virginia Tech/940
N.C. State/937
Maryland/929
FSU/927
Men’s basketball multi-year scores
UNC/995
N.C. State/990
Duke/980
Boston College/978
Virginia Tech/970
Miami/970
Wake Forest/959
Virginia/952
Clemson/946
FSU/944
Maryland/913
Georgia Tech/908
| Football | Duke University | NC | 983 | |
| Football | University of Miami (Florida) | FL | 978 | |
| Football | Georgia Institute of Technology | GA | 967 | |
| Football | Clemson University | SC | 967 | |
| Football | Boston College | MA | 967 | |
| Football | Wake Forest University | NC | 966 | |
| Football | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | NC | 957 | |
| Football | University of Virginia | VA | 947 | |
| Football | Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University | VA | 940 | |
| Football | North Carolina State University | NC | 937 | |
| Football | University of Maryland, College Park | MD | 929 | |
| Football | Florida State University | FL | 927 |
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81 comments Add your comment
dawgfan
June 10th, 2010
3:14 pm
Earth to Techie morons: Attracting non-alumni support for the athletic programs is a goal of almost any major D-1 program. It is certainly a goal of yours. Why else would you have offered free hot dog and coke promotions to fill the stands? Why else would you run ads in the AJC every single summer about tickets for the upcoming football season? Do you idiots think that Big Boi halftime concert a couple of years ago was for your dorky asses? Of course not. Big Boi has probably never seen so many dorks in one place in his life as he did that night. He was there to get the average sidewalk Atlanta sports fan in to the stadium.
Tech fans kill me with this “you didn’t even go to school at UGA” non-sense. So what if the average Georgia redneck cheers for us over you? Can you blame them? Meanwhile, the UGA athletic association is laughing all the way to the bank. Your piss ant athletic department would slap its own mother to get the kind of NON-ALUMNI support that UGA does.
Yeah, that management degree must be real tough. You will never see anyone more painfully clueless about the business of college sports than Tech fans. They think this is like pee wee league or something where you get points for just showing up. Good grief.
dawgfan
June 10th, 2010
3:15 pm
Earth to Techie morons: Attracting non-alumni support for the athletic programs is a goal of almost any major D-1 program. It is certainly a goal of yours. Why else would you have offered free hot dog and coke promotions to fill the stands? Why else would you run ads in the AJC every single summer about tickets for the upcoming football season? Do you idiots think that Big Boi halftime concert a couple of years ago was for your dorky asses? Of course not. Big Boi has probably never seen so many dorks in one place in his life as he did that night. He was there to get the average sidewalk Atlanta sports fan in to the stadium, not Tech alumni.
Tech fans kill me with this “you didn’t even go to school at UGA” non-sense. So what if the average Georgia redneck cheers for us over you? Can you blame them? Meanwhile, the UGA athletic association is laughing all the way to the bank. Your piss ant athletic department would slap its own mother to get the kind of NON-ALUMNI support that UGA does.
Yeah, that management degree must be real tough. You will never see anyone more painfully clueless about the business of college sports than Tech fans. They think this is like pee wee league or something where you get points for just showing up. Good grief.
Phone Check Homey
June 10th, 2010
3:17 pm
Some further results
Football – 24
Basketball – 66
Reality Stinks
June 10th, 2010
4:05 pm
Tech fans
dawgfan nailed the stinger on the head
Here re-read this again a million times and have your engineering department try to come up with a solution
Tech fans kill me with this “you didn’t even go to school at UGA” non-sense. So what if the average Georgia redneck cheers for us over you? Can you blame them? Meanwhile, the UGA athletic association is laughing all the way to the bank. Your piss ant athletic department would slap its own mother to get the kind of NON-ALUMNI support that UGA does.
Yeah, that management degree must be real tough. You will never see anyone more painfully clueless about the business of college sports than Tech fans. They think this is like pee wee league or something where you get points for just showing up. Good grief.
Dopes
RDR
June 10th, 2010
4:19 pm
Embarrassing! Last in basketball and failing to meet the minimum NCAA requirements.
Reality Stinks
June 10th, 2010
4:30 pm
30-24
The sad truth
June 10th, 2010
4:41 pm
When everything shakes out in conference re-aligments, Tech could one of the teams left out in the cold. The football played in the Southern Conference is very good, and ya’ll will fit right in.
Frank
June 10th, 2010
4:45 pm
Reality Stinks- go f yourself- why don’t you be a man at meet up somewhere you frickin’ loser- go back to whacking yourself off on mylie cyrus video
Frank
June 10th, 2010
4:49 pm
Let me guess you little wuss- you work for your “daddy” in commercial real estate-
Delbert D.
June 10th, 2010
4:49 pm
I Googled “Standford” and got no hits.
Reality Stinks
June 10th, 2010
4:51 pm
Frank
Whats the matter truth hurts or should I say Reality Stinks.
Obviously I’ve struck a nerve to evoke such deplorable statements from what you have written.
Please feel free to re-read dawgfans comments over a couple thousand times and continue to take your medication please!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reality Stinks
June 10th, 2010
4:58 pm
Frank
Stop running off at the mouth
Your probably that 5 foot 4 inch big mouth mental midget pointing his little finger in my face during the comming 30-24 beat down that was about to take place. “telling me Paul The Great Johnson was about to show UGA what football was all about”.
If thats you I will be glad to meet you at the dog walk this Nov over by the trees and give you a nice spanking just before the real beat down occurs
You up for it big mouth?
Frank
June 10th, 2010
5:13 pm
wrong on all accounts you little pansy ass- tell me when and where- ready to kick your little ass to the curb now- tell me when and where- I don’t live through anyone else like you little fricks do
Frank
June 10th, 2010
5:14 pm
big mouth? I think you have me confused with you boy friend you little puss
Frank
June 10th, 2010
5:16 pm
I like it “meet me at the dog walk in Nov” how about tomorrow? you up for it?
Reality Stinks
June 10th, 2010
5:28 pm
Frank
Im up for it in Nov
I like to make my trip worth while
Giving you a good spanking and right after that watching a real team beat down a bunch of wanna bees
I’ll be wearing my usual outfit red polo shirt with G emblem, white hat with G on it, blue jeans, shades,
Better yet I’ll wear a navy blue shirt with my white G hat will that help you
SILLY UGA FANS
June 10th, 2010
5:30 pm
You do know that there are not 92,000 UGA fans sitting in the stadium right? I would venture a guess that 1/3 of those are fans of the opposing team say Gatot fans to watch the puppies get beat once again. The only reason your not so great SEC team fills it’s stadium is because you play teams with good fanbases and GT unfortunately does not. Does this suck for GT money wise yes, do I have to sit next to Wilbur and Cletis who can’t even name a player besides the QB no.
SILLY UGA FANS
June 10th, 2010
5:36 pm
I think reality stinks is the geeky guy painted all white in the youtube video looking like an idiot
4 ncs are better than 1
June 10th, 2010
5:56 pm
Reality stinks is just sore because his team has that big ole stadium, but only one national title.
Coach Small Johnson
June 10th, 2010
6:12 pm
Seriously
Tech fans we are delusional
Reality Stinks
June 10th, 2010
8:22 pm
Reality stinks doesnt it tech
Really?
June 11th, 2010
12:25 am
Reality Stinks, please let me be the first to inform you that YOU ARE A MORON. Don’t talk about things you don’t know, saying GA Tech is an inferior schools to those in the top tier.
Tech is the 5th ranked engineering school in the country, behind MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Cal Tech, and 12th in the world. I’d say that’s damn good company to be in.
Tech has the #1 ranked Industrial Engineering program in the world.
Tech is the #7 ranked public school overall in the country, behind UC-Berkeley, UCLA, UVA, Michigan, UNC-Chapel Hill, and William and Mary. This one where UGA actually does qualify for rankings, and they come in at a healthy #21. Tech, at #7, is the third best public institution in the ACC (that not even counting places like Duke), whereas Georgia comes in at second in the SEC, behind Florida (as well as Maryland from the ACC), which BTDubs, is behind all of the aforementioned ACC schools.
Don’t talk about Tech not being legit. You have no idea what you talk about.
Chip
June 11th, 2010
10:32 am
How credible is all this when CJ Spiller is All-ACC Academic and then scores 10 on the Wonderlic?
Technophobia
June 11th, 2010
12:14 pm
Dawg fan, do your REALLY want to talk academics????
http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/quiz/_/id/600
Technophobia
June 11th, 2010
12:16 pm
Dawg fans, do you REALLY want to talk academics????
http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/quiz/_/id/600
Sorry about the typos above.
UGAisso3decadesago
June 11th, 2010
12:27 pm
Lol. Who cares about a couple hundred athletes and how their grades are? They obviously should and their parents should. We don’t. Georgia Tech is considered a great academic school because of the other 18,000 students here. The ones that actually have the super high SAT scores and come to Tech for the academics.
Gt4ever
June 11th, 2010
5:12 pm
Chip
It is what it is…… A total CROCK of S&^%….. The hypocrisy is unbelievable! All ACC academic my arse, although Clemson does carry a lot of football type classes…. Just saying.
Gt4ever
June 11th, 2010
5:14 pm
For the most part these guys are there to play FOOTBALL! Period. Yes, there are exceptions, but give me a break……. UGA/GT it’s all the same, it really frustrates me when GT fans get on here and talk academics….. When all we really care about is winning football games…
killerJ
June 11th, 2010
5:43 pm
We all know UFAG Fudges Theirs, is Tech Going That Way With Expansion For Money?
Dawghater
June 14th, 2010
3:26 pm
Hey all you blind puppy dawg fans. Comparing Tech APR football scores to UGA’s is like comparing the complexity of a Engineer’s job to a Wal-Mart Cashier. Check out the degrees your players strive to score at – Recreational Science or Housing! Give me a break!
Thank God for Ga. St. football
June 15th, 2010
8:13 am
I see another faux Yech “student” athlete beat the ever living sh*t out of his gf. What an embarrassment to the great city of Atlanta.