Tech does mostly well in APR
Georgia Tech’s men’s basketball team improved its single-year Academic Progress Rate score from 953 to 960, but its multi-year average of 915 still failed to meet the minimum score of 925 required by the NCAA. Scores were released today. As a result, Tech penalized itself with the loss of a scholarship during the 2010-11 season. Its average was the lowest among the ACC’s 12 teams.
The APR is used to measure how athletes are progressing through school. The scores released today are based on a multi-year rate that averages scores dating back to the 2006-07 academic year. Teams that fail to average 925 are subject to penalties including loss of scholarships.
Because the penalty has been served, new coach Brian Gregory will have a full allotment of 13 scholarships for the 2011-12 season.
Tech’s average is hampered by a single-year score of 840 posted in 2007-08. It also suffered the loss of two scholarships during the 2008-09 season.
The men’s basketball team wasn’t the only one to improve its average score. Nine of the 17 teams improved or stayed the same. Football posted a 966, compared to last year’s 967. It finished sixth among the ACC’s teams.
Three teams – golf and men’s and women’s cross country – posted perfect multi-year scores of 1,000.
Here are the men’s basketball scores:
| Sport | School | State | Academic Year | Multi-Year Rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men’s Basketball | Georgia Institute of Technology | GA | 2009 – 2010 | 915 | |
| Men’s Basketball | Florida State University | FL | 2009 – 2010 | 926 | |
| Men’s Basketball | University of Virginia | VA | 2009 – 2010 | 940 | |
| Men’s Basketball | University of Maryland, College Park | MD | 2009 – 2010 | 945 | |
| Men’s Basketball | Wake Forest University | NC | 2009 – 2010 | 953 | |
| Men’s Basketball | Clemson University | SC | 2009 – 2010 | 964 | |
| Men’s Basketball | Boston College | MA | 2009 – 2010 | 972 | |
| Men’s Basketball | University of Miami (Florida) | FL | 2009 – 2010 | 975 | |
| Men’s Basketball | North Carolina State University | NC | 2009 – 2010 | 985 | |
| Men’s Basketball | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | NC | 2009 – 2010 | 985 | |
| Men’s Basketball | Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University | VA | 2009 – 2010 | 985 | |
| Men’s Basketball | Duke University | NC | 2009 – 2010 | 990 |
Here are the football scores:
| Sport | School | State | Academic Year | Multi-Year Rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Football | University of Maryland, College Park | MD | 2009 – 2010 | 922* | |
| Football | North Carolina State University | NC | 2009 – 2010 | 929 | |
| Football | Florida State University | FL | 2009 – 2010 | 932 | |
| Football | University of Virginia | VA | 2009 – 2010 | 947 | |
| Football | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | NC | 2009 – 2010 | 955 | |
| Football | Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University | VA | 2009 – 2010 | 955 | |
| Football | Georgia Institute of Technology | GA | 2009 – 2010 | 966 | |
| Football | Boston College | MA | 2009 – 2010 | 971 | |
| Football | Wake Forest University | NC | 2009 – 2010 | 971 | |
| Football | Clemson University | SC | 2009 – 2010 | 977 | |
| Football | University of Miami (Florida) | FL | 2009 – 2010 | 979 | |
| Football | Duke University | NC | 2009 – 2010 | 986 |
* Loss of three scholarships
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91 comments Add your comment
albanyfan
May 25th, 2011
9:23 am
Dawginlex, evrybody agrees UGA has some good schools and turns out some fine students. But were talking about the joke majors your football players take. If you care to compare the majors of both teams, please do.
juvenal
May 25th, 2011
9:55 am
Doug, thanks for adding the lists, still the statsar(sec?)-Lex, not sure turning out successful lawyers that beneficial, but reality is payscale.com….
DawginLex
May 25th, 2011
10:01 am
agreed juvenal. sometimes i think the Trolls who invade the UGA blogs are a bunch of lawyers
Tech Forever
May 25th, 2011
10:35 am
Old Blind Dawg
I agree with most of your first post. Tech either needs to expand the curriculum or get out of the BCS business.
Ramblin Man
May 25th, 2011
10:45 am
Old Blind Dawg,
I agree 100% with adding to the curriculum and GT has tried and has been turned down by the board of regents. I would love it if GT was able to add journalism, something in the area of teaching/coaching credintials, and/or break out some of the course load on the management degree. These should not be dummy downed degrees, as I like the academic standards, but would offer athletes and other students some different options than what GT currently offers.
Ramblin Man
May 25th, 2011
10:47 am
I do think you are crazy in thinking that GT will not get another ACC championship in the next 20 years though. CPJ has proved he can do it with the right players and Gregory will have a shot.
Team Dream
May 25th, 2011
10:47 am
someone please explain the “Fish Fry” wise crack that constantly appears on GT blogs … what exactly do you mean? Nobody can laugh if nobody gets the joke …
Old Blind Dawg
May 25th, 2011
10:47 am
Tech Forever I would really hate to see GT get out of the BCS. Expanding the curriculum is not the issue as much as the arcane insistence that everyone takes rocket science math.
Tech Forever
May 25th, 2011
10:53 am
DawginLex
Hey man!!! It’s been awhile.
I agree with you though, there are a ton of great Georgia fans and alums. From the GT persepctive though it’s those fans that didn’t go to Georgia that give the fanbase a bad name….and I’d say that’s about 75% of the fanbase. Anyway, I know a lot of very successful UGA grads….even a couple here in TX.
juvenal
May 25th, 2011
10:58 am
so why can’t we use this to fire hewitt for cause & save some$?
Old Blind Dawg
May 25th, 2011
10:58 am
Ramble man I look at what the other ACC schools are doing on the recruiting front – GT is not keeping up. CPJ won the ACC with mostly the other guys players during what is considered a relatively weak year in the ACC.
GT caught the conference off guard with that wacky offense, I think they (the ACC) have learned how to beat it. There is a ton of film to review. GT may rack up lots of yards and still come out on the short end of the score.
GT was successful in that one championship run because they had a freak at WR now that they have no real WR teams will focus on stopping the run. The likelyhood of CPJ signing another great WR is slim to none.
Just MHO as a college football fan.
Ramblin Man
May 25th, 2011
11:16 am
Old Blind Dawg,
I agree and disagree. Yes the stars if you will were recruited by Gailey but CPJ developed them. I agree GT needs a good WR and Hill so far has shown that it is not him. Maybe Greene, Moore, Jackson, or Waller will be that man I just don’t know yet. I don’t think GT needs another Thomas, but two dependable WRs that will keep the secondary honest will open huge holes. I have no doubt that DCs will have corners and LBs watching for O. Smith this year and that alone will open space. GT will always fall behind most of the ACC in recruiting, but I honestly believe the coaching staff has the skill to coach these players up. Only time will tell. I also believe that if Groh can show improvement with the D GT will surprise some teams and get a great recruiting class for next year. I would love nothing more than for GT and UGA to have great teams and fight it out every year for state dominance then national dominance.
dap
May 25th, 2011
11:22 am
What a deceptive headline. Tech was at the bottom of ACC schools. How can you sugar coat that with out intentions other than being a homer for Tech?
DawginLex
May 25th, 2011
11:51 am
Hey Tech forever,
I am finding the blogging better over here. I got banned from tim tucker’s blog for troll fighting. I should know better.
The stereotypes do fit for a lot of UGA fans but for those folks who graduated from UGA, it makes us mad.
Later
Tech Forever
May 25th, 2011
12:17 pm
Old Blind Dawg
We’re talking about the same thing. The lowest level math Tech offers is Calc and Finite. So to begin offering College Algebra I and II as well as Trigonometry Tech would have to expand the curriculum. So we agree.
Old Blind Dawg
May 25th, 2011
12:32 pm
Let’s hope GT expands the curriculum and fields a powerhouse – so UGA can humble them yet again – only kidding.
But I think everyone here will agree one team winning 9 out of 10 every decade takes an awful lot out of the rivalry.
DawginLex
May 25th, 2011
1:00 pm
I was just told on the UGA blog by a blogger named “UGAG Gets the Death Penalty” to stay off the Tech blogs you ugly mutt!
Welcome to my world.
Old Blind Dawg
May 25th, 2011
1:24 pm
Trolls the bane of sports blogs…………………they are much like the stuff that stinks and sticks to your shoe.
Tech Forever
May 25th, 2011
1:57 pm
DawginLex
A Tech fan on a UGA blog told you to stay off the Tech blogs……nice. I would apologize on behalf of the part of the fanbase who holds actual reality and perspective in high regard, but then I’d find myself apologizing for most GT fans and I really don’t have that kind of energy.
Ramblin Man
May 25th, 2011
2:29 pm
Old Blind Dawg,
I agree the last ten years has not been pretty and if it was not for GT keeping it close minus the one blowout I would not even bother trying to say GT had a chance.
juvenal
May 25th, 2011
2:41 pm
does hall have a buy-out? L 9-0 to CU!
Paul Johnson
May 25th, 2011
3:05 pm
Bunch of idiots.
Genius Jacket
May 25th, 2011
4:15 pm
Are we sure that Tech athletes take all of their courses at Ga Tech. I heard we let athetes take courses at other Atlanta area colleges.
I am a Tech fan, and I don’t believe for one minute that Chris Bosh and Stephon Marbury took calculus at Tech, do you?
Tech Forever
May 25th, 2011
10:47 pm
Genius Jacket
Tech athletes take all their course at Tech. Bosh was an extremely good student in HS (came to Tech with a 3.8 GPA or something like that) , was fully admitted into Tech, and if memory serves he took Calc I his 1st semester at Tech and took Calc II in the Spring semester. His Dad is an engineer and he had a cousin and aunt both graduate from Tech.
Marbury took Finite Math, got a C, enrolled for Survey his Spring Semester, and then dropped his whole Spring courseload in late January.
damngoodawg!
May 26th, 2011
8:12 am
Techies do not get excited. You draw your athletes from the same pool as everyone else and these things will happen….nerk, nerk, nerk….
bulldogmaniac
May 26th, 2011
9:06 am
idiots!
juvenal
May 26th, 2011
9:46 am
nerk? sad how people in this country have delusional opinions factually unfounded for their own self-gratification, one of the reasons it’s going down the tubes(fact, Tech FB recruits #1 in SAT’s among public bcs schools)……Calvin & aj both great receivers, in the same pool intellectually?
Pull My Finger
May 26th, 2011
10:09 am
They should have been penalized extra for having the ugliest campus in the U.S.
geeks 4ever
May 26th, 2011
10:10 am
The ajc is so unfair it makes me cry. If those old mean puppies had lost a scholarship for any reason it would have been the lead story in huge letters at the top of the sports section. Something like UGA PENALIZED BY NCAA SCHOLARSHIP LOSS, but when we have something newsworthy happen you boo boo heads at ajc bury the story. It’s not fair.
juvenal
May 26th, 2011
10:25 am
nothing makes a campus pretty like puke, piss & poop…….(unless it’s lots of trash)
Pull My Finger
May 26th, 2011
11:13 am
Or maybe drive-by shootings, muggings, concrete, blaring sirens constantly, the smell of oozing sewage, pollution, losing to UGA every year in football, and ugly women.
Pull My Finger
May 26th, 2011
11:17 am
Not to mention a concrete tub (Techies call it a stadium) that’s half empty every week.
Get back to World of Warcraft, nerd
May 26th, 2011
12:47 pm
It was a red-letter day for UGA athletics with regard to academics this week as the NCAA released its latest Academic Progress Rate report. Eight Georgia sports teams were among the top three in the SEC, including men’s golf with a perfect score of 1,000. The football team’s score of 976 APR tied Florida for second, only one point behind league-leading Vanderbilt.
The APR, now in its sixth year, measures the eligibility, retention and graduation of student-athletes competing on every Division I sports team. It also serves as a predictor of graduation success. The most recent APR scores are multi-year rates based on the scores from the 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09, and 2009-10 academic years. NCAA sports falling below the established point cutoff of 925 are subject to penalties including scholarship reductions. UGA will not incur any penalties as all 20 NCAA Bulldog sports were significantly above the cutoff score.
“These scores are indicative of a great deal of effort and hard work by our student-athletes,” said Georgia AD Greg McGarity. “Our coaches and academic counseling staff have done an excellent job of supporting our student-athletes and we’ll continue those efforts to keep improving and performing at a high level.”
Other Bulldog teams ranking among the SEC’s top three include women’s basketball (2nd), women’s cross country (2nd), women’s swimming and diving (2nd), men’s indoor track and field (3rd), men’s outdoor track and field (3rd), and women¹s indoor track and field (3rd).
Eleven UGA teams1 increased their team scores over last year, including men’s basketball (946). Coach Mark Fox’s Bulldogs saw four seniors graduate this spring.
jj
May 26th, 2011
1:02 pm
I taught Finite Math at Georgia Tech. It’s a real math class. It was full of athletes. I can vouch that one current NBA point guard is capable of correctly implementing the simplex method.
juvenal
May 26th, 2011
2:27 pm
WhinEy, if you took stats, 95% is not a % that turns up often in human systems……
Jay Anderson
May 26th, 2011
4:49 pm
Thank goodness Paul Hewitt is gone. Enjoy, George Mason! Side note: I just found that new CoachWatcher website and it is legit. http://www.CoachWatcher.com
FDawg
May 26th, 2011
6:13 pm
To 404… Of course it’s a joke. How else can you explain tech’s mediocre academic record? Worse than FSU…my God what’s going on?
To Tech Forever… I think WnE called you out. Punk!
Genius Jacket… No, all tech athletes do NOT take all of their classes at tech.
kent
May 26th, 2011
7:10 pm
lol that this is “mostly well” – you must have aced “shill” class in journalism school.
Kevin K
May 26th, 2011
8:59 pm
More importantly, I can’t WAIT until the WOW!!!!
Kevin K
May 26th, 2011
9:01 pm
I did “mostly” good with my girl last night! No PE!!! I am the MAN!!!
boots
May 26th, 2011
9:18 pm
Just one more thing UGA has done better than Tech. Oh, let me guess, Tech’s athletes are smarter than evey other university’s athletes? Right – smarter than Duke, Wake, UGA, Vandy, Florida, UNC. They just dont test well. Or study well. Or play well.