Georgia football ranks No. 2 in SEC behind Vanderbilt — in graduation rate
ATHENS – Georgia’s football team ranked second in the SEC, behind Vanderbilt, in Graduation Success Rate (GSR) statistics released today by the NCAA.
Georgia had a 68-percent graduation rate in football for the freshmen classes and transfer students of 2000 through 2003, according to the figures released today.
The NCAA releases the figures annually for rolling four-year survey periods. Georgia’s football graduation rate was up from 57 percent in last year’s figures.
In all sports, Georgia athletes posted a 77-percent graduation rate in the figures released today, up from 75 percent a year ago. UGA said this year’s figures are the Bulldogs’ highest since the GSR was implemented in 2005, with eight teams (football, men’s basketball, men’s golf, women’s cross-country/track, women’s golf, soccer, softball and women’s swimming/diving) improving from a year ago and three other teams (men’s swimming/diving, gymnastics and women’s tennis) maintaining their perfect 100-percent scores.
Georgia’s lowest score was in men’s basketball (36 percent, up from 18 percent in last year’s figures).
Georgia provided this breakdown of its results in the GSR figures released in each of the past four years:
UGA Graduation Success Rate Report
Sport 2007 2008 2009 2010
Baseball 61 62 65 63
Men’s Basketball 19 23 18 36
Men’s Cross Country/Track 45 67 69 68
Football 41 48 57 68
Men’s Golf 78 75 88 89
Men’s Swim/Dive 88 92 100 100
Men’s Tennis 83 88 82 73
Women’s Cross Country/Track 69 64 72 75
Women’s Golf 67 71 86 88
Women’s Gymnastics 93 92 100 100
Soccer 90 89 85 92
Softball 73 74 82 91
Women’s Swim/Dive 90 91 84 86
Women’s Tennis 100 100 100 100
Volleyball 91 100 92 91
Women’s Equestrian N/A N/A 91 68
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Delbert D.
October 27th, 2010
3:33 pm
University of Florida Upperclassmen Lettermen
15 – Social and Behavioral Sciences
5 – Humanities and Letters
4 – Family, Youth and Community Services
3 – Sociology
3 – Political Science
2 – Anthropology
2 – Sports Management
1 – Health Science
1 – Recreation Programming
1 – Recreation and Event Management
1 – Finance
1 – Transfer, no major
Delbert D.
October 27th, 2010
3:36 pm
“primates and larval hominids on undeveloped planets”
Yeah, that sounds like something Timothy Leary would say.
Turn on, tune in, drop out…
The argument pro or con has to hold water, children
October 27th, 2010
3:39 pm
Yes, UGA is doing their job of educating athletes. They should and so should any school with a football or basketball program ……….. like GT. Now, GT is not achieving high academic levels with their jocks. Why?
Their players do take courses, like their liberal arts degree in History or whatever. Yes, they do have a liberal arts program ……….ask any GT student. GT “fans” deny this always and that tells me that they are not even GT grads. This Liberal Arts curriculum was added in the late 80s or early 90s for just this reason ………so that GT could sometimes get 5,500 fannies in the BS@HGF. View it on the Offical GT website.
Now, to argue that GT kids all do calculus and such, and they are all in M.E or Physics or such, simply does not hold water. IF …….IF their players really are ALSO GOOD students, then they in HS were on the “academic track” or colleg prep ANYWAY in order to be ready for college level math. They did not get DUMB when enrolled at GT. See? That supposedly is why they were admitted in the first place ……….”GT’s student athletes are all so brilliant”. Right???
No, the GT kids that are good players like that rolly poly running back Jon ( don’t play me vs UGA ) Dwyer, took the easy stuff then they blew town. THIS and only this reason is why GT has a HORRIBLE academic record for their student athletes. Two and done is their rally cry for bball players.
CPJ is in trouble …………… WHY ????? Well, um, ah, every 3.5 years GT gets a new football coach and he is almost there. WIll 6-6 in 2010 do it? WIll 6-6 in 2011 nail his coffin shut? I think so.
JB
October 27th, 2010
3:42 pm
WELL WELL WELL….. TECH last in Grad rates in ACC in football…….Pitiful…….. And Dawgs tops after Vandy…….Ought to shut a few pie holes for a while……
wolfman
October 27th, 2010
3:53 pm
Athletes are a small sub-set of the school. Everyone knows that most ACC schools (including GT) rank above ALL SEC schools (with the exception of Vandy).
JB
October 27th, 2010
3:59 pm
And hey wolfman, if Tech only taught class, humility and social skills…….They would really be something.
Dawgfan
October 27th, 2010
4:00 pm
Georgia Trek has a liberal arts sociology program, it’s called HTS.
Bulldog Ben
October 27th, 2010
4:02 pm
Graduation rates speak just as much about how easy the majors are as they do about how smart the graduates are.
Delbert D.
October 27th, 2010
4:06 pm
@ hold water – “Now, to argue that GT kids all do calculus and such, and they are all in M.E or Physics or such, simply does not hold water.”
GT 2010 Upperclassmen Majors:
Updated for 2010 on 9/30/2010
11 players – Management (one in masters program)
4 players – Civil Engineering
1 player- Biology (Punter)
1 player – Biotechnology
1 player – Aerospace Engineering (All-ACC Center)
2 players – Mechanical Engineering (WR)
2 players – Industrial Engineering
1 player – Computer & Electrical Engineering (PK)
1 Player – Building Construction
1 player – History, Science and Technology (starting DB/VaTech xfer)
2 players – All-ACC Academic team (2 starters, A-back and DT)
1 player – Economics and International Releations
1 player – Sociology
BS in Management math requirements
MATH 1501 CALCULUS I or MATH 1712 SURVEY OF CALCULUS
MATH 1502 CALCULUS II or MATH 1711 FINITE MATHEMATICS
Delbert D.
October 27th, 2010
4:09 pm
GT 2010 Majors
Undergrads – Added 10/27/2010
Emmanual Dieke, Starting DE – Biomedical Engineering
Izaan Cross, Starting DE – Management
Euclid Cummings, 2nd team DE – Management
Ray Beno, 2nd team C – Engineering
Daniel McKayhan, special teams/WR – (National Honor Society)
Julian Burnette, starting LB – Management
JB
October 27th, 2010
4:10 pm
I do know of three recruits who have bailed on Tech because of fear of Academics…….
The Nick Marshall Qb at Wilcox county was one….and Tech wanted him bad. Go Dawgs
Dooley
October 27th, 2010
4:15 pm
Must have only included the only football player that went to class
Dawg 1
October 27th, 2010
4:17 pm
And how many start?
The rallying cry used to be that “we’re smarter than you are”, since more often than not, GT lost to UGA in most sports. And they were quick to point at Graduation Rates, Average SAT’S, Etc. The gap has significantly closed (much thanks to Damon Evans by the way) – so now it moves to “our players are taking difficult courses”.
The truth is, that Georgia Tech is primarily an Engineering School. Which means a high Math aptititude, but does not mean a high aptititude that lends itself to other majors. In fact, it usually means that these same students tend to score lower. I’ll give the Tech folks that on whole, they likely have more kids taking tougher courses, but not by a large percentage. What they are starting to recognize that as each year goes by this gap continues to close; something that is clearly eating on them almost as much as losing to UGA on the field.
wolfman
October 27th, 2010
4:17 pm
JB… Is that the best that you could do?
JJacketBuzz
October 27th, 2010
4:17 pm
Everybody knows that our football players generally guilty of taking the easiest classes at Tech. The management dept is comprised of nearly half being football players. How hard can that be? Typical football players, I guess.
Rich
October 27th, 2010
4:18 pm
At either GT or UGA there is so much assistance to these students, the only way they will fail is by lack of effort.
leaving early for the nfl
October 27th, 2010
4:18 pm
who has the most underclassmen leaving for the nfl? that won’t help graduation rates.
and despite their diploma – I’m gonna have a hard time hiring a UGA grad – they all have criminal records!
Dawg 1
October 27th, 2010
4:19 pm
Tim, can you show the entire list. Arkansas and LSU usually battle it out for the bottom, just curious as to how it shook out this year.
JJacketBuzz
October 27th, 2010
4:26 pm
I was talking to an Auburn grad the other day who was an engineer, and he said that he doesn’t like to hire GT grads because they’re typically socially inept. I wish Tech would focus on recruiting more well rounded students instead of accepting only those w/ high math scores.
wolfman
October 27th, 2010
4:27 pm
Congrats to GT Center Sean Bedford — #17 on the Sporting News list of the smartest athletes!
17. Sean Bedford, C, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
• Age: 22
• On-field accomplishments: 2009 All-ACC first team, on the preseason watch lists for the Outland and Rimington trophies.
• Major, GPA: Aerospace engineering and public policy (minor in law science and technology), 3.8
• SAT score: 1520. “I didn’t study. I took it three times. First one in seventh grade and got an 1130. The next time in 10th grade and got a 1400.”
• Off-field/intellectual interests: “I’ve always been fascinated with the space program. … I’d love to be an astronaut. At the moment, being (6-1, 281), none of them are quite as big as I am.”
• What I’m reading now: “Right now, I’m reading The Prince, by Machiavelli. After that, I’ll move on to Paradise Lost, by Milton. I try to keep it to one a week, and if I have spare time, I’ll pick it up more.”
• Nerdiest thing about me: “When I was 7 or 8 years old, I could give you the name of not only every NASA mission from the first Mercury flights to the end of the Apollo program, I could name the crew and give a brief synopsis of each mission.”
Read more: http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/feed/2010-09/smart-athletes/story/sporting-news-names-the-20-smartest-athletes-in-sports?SPSID=48773&SPID=4699&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=11600#ixzz13ap9YcNr
UGAFan
October 27th, 2010
4:28 pm
Congrats to the football team. To those who want to try to flip it to something bad or say it was a cakewalk…get a life. Regardless of what an athlete’s major is, they still have to make it through core classes just like the rest of the student body. For those of you that went to college, which I assume is very few from the posts on here, you know that takes up the majority of your freshman and sophomore year. Also, just because someone’s major is Recreation and Leisure Studies, it does not mean they are playing basketball all day long… If they did, who cares…at least they stayed committed to something to the end. It’s hard enough these days to get someone to commit to something for more than a week…
wolfman
October 27th, 2010
4:29 pm
Auburn grad calling someone socially inept? Was that before or after he spit?
SSDD
October 27th, 2010
4:29 pm
@JJacketBuzz said:
“The management dept is comprised of nearly half being football players.”
Obviously have no EFN clue what youre talking about.
Dawgammy
October 27th, 2010
4:30 pm
Hence the name Trekies
Harold
October 27th, 2010
4:31 pm
I’ve never understood how anyone – even an alumnus – could support and take pride in UGA’s football team. When you look at their history for the past forty years, how can anyone ignore Jan Kemp and the “remedial studies” scam, the Jim Harrick fiasco, the DUIs in the athletic office, the DUIs and other arrests of players, the #1 party school tag (i.e., the most drunk students), the suspensions and outright dismissals, the Fulmer Cup, and on and on?
As disgraceful and humiliating as it is, I don’t see many alums and fans demanding an end to this sordid activity. It sets UGA apart as the kind of school most people abhor, and it’s become an embarrassment to the whole state of Georgia.
Will it never end? Apparently not while Mark Richt is at UGA. Richt is perhaps the biggest hypocrite in the United States. But even with all the cheating and lawlessness that he ignores, he still can’t win the SEC.
So you’re paying him to be BCS champions, but he can’t even win his SEC division. So why do you pay him millions of dollars a year?
Just asking.
404
October 27th, 2010
4:32 pm
UGA = cake-walk or perp-walk.
Take your pick.
Martha White
October 27th, 2010
4:33 pm
I wonder if any of the books about UGA football include the perspective of someone speaking for the late Jan Kemp? The perspective that “student” athletes like Lindsay Scott were playing years without taking college level courses? That the proudest moment of the football program was earned by players who never earned a single college credit?
Dawgtards love to return to 1980, but their memories are really short when it comes to remembering an earthshaking event that happened a few years later that showed the world what a joke UGA athletes were and what a scam artist their beloved Vince Dooley was (and is). So for all those dawgtards with short memories or who think their athletes are actually taking real courses and trying to graduate, here’s the quote that broke the trial wide open and showed what a slimeball Dooley is:
O. Hale Almand Jr., a lawyer for the defense, offered a justification for the favorable treatment accorded the athletes, citing a hypothetical player. “We may not make a university student out of him,” he told the jury, “but if we can teach him to read and write, maybe he can work at the post office rather than as a garbageman when he gets through with his athletic career.”
Nothing has changed at UGA, they just do a slightly better job of keeping things quiet, but that’s hard to do when 44 of your player-thugs have been arrested, isn’t it?
UGA: WINNER OF THE FULMER CUP AND THE CESSPOOL OF THE SOUTH.
wolfman
October 27th, 2010
4:34 pm
At lease UGA is #1 in something — PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!
Delbert D.
October 27th, 2010
4:34 pm
@Dawg 1 – “And how many start?”
Here are the guys on the depth chart and their majors. The web site bios have not been updated for some.
Upperclassmen lettermen:
Anthony Allen, SR, starting B-Back: bio not updated-(Louisville XFER)
Chandler Anderson, JR starting P: Biology
Anthony Barnes, SR starting LB: Management
Austin Barrick, SR starting OL: Management
Sean Bedford, SR starting center: Aerospace Engineering (1st Team All-ACC)
Scott Blair, SR starting K: Computer/Electrical Engineering
Mario Butler, SR starting CB: Management
Nick Claytor, JR, starting OL: bio not updated
Ben Anderson, SR, 2nd team NT: Management
Kevin Cone, SR, starting WR: Mechanical Engineering
Lucas Cox, SR 2nd team B-back: Management
Correy Earls, SR starting WR: Management
Zach Krish, SR 2nd team OT – Civil Engineering
Mario Edwards, SR starting DB: History, Science, and Technology (VT XFER)
Anthony Egbuniwe, SR starting DE: Management
Brad Jefferson, JR starting LB: not updated
Jason Peters, JR DE: Not updated (Academic All-State)
Roddy Jones, JR starting A-back: bio not updated (2008 & 2009 All-ACC Academic team)
Joshua Nesbitt, SR starting QB: Management
Dominique Reese, SR starting DB: Management
Logan Walls, JR starting NT: not updated (2009 All-ACC Academic team)
Robert Hall, SR* DE: Management, Civil engineering (*Spring 2010 grad)
Michael Peterson JR: bio not updated ACC Academic Honor Roll 2009-10
Malcolm Munroe JR special teams/OLB: Biotechnology
Undergrads with intended majors- Added 10/27/2010
Emmanual Dieke, Starting DE – Biomedical Engineering
Izaan Cross, Starting DE – Management
Euclid Cummings, 2nd team DE – Management
Ray Beno, 2nd team C – Engineering
Julian Burnette, starting LB – Management
Also:
Daniel McKayhan, special teams/WR – (National Honor Society)
JJacketBuzz
October 27th, 2010
4:36 pm
At Tech, I was one of the few students with a social life. Video gaming was real big back then and all everyone wanted to do was play WarCraft and Quake III. I would remind my roommates that we were in the ATL, one of the top rated cities for singles. But the payed no mind, just kept to themselves when they weren’t doing homework….
ARdawg
October 27th, 2010
4:40 pm
This is awful news for those Tech fans that like to hang out here. Just awful
Steve in Bama
October 27th, 2010
4:44 pm
I wonder how the athletes compare to the general student population?
Delbert D.
October 27th, 2010
4:49 pm
Steve in Bama – That’s a good question. I don’t know who would track that.
Rob
October 27th, 2010
4:49 pm
When I was at UGA in the 80s, we had a tight end fail out of the UGA remedial program, then transfer to Tech and graduate in 4 years.
realistic dog fan
October 27th, 2010
4:51 pm
Martha White and SSDD – Wake up and smell the roses!! The University of Georgia is the 3rd- yes 3rd most difficult university to enter in the SEC – Vandy, Florida, and Georgia. I would throttle you both through the net if possible; I have a daughter graduating in the pre-med program and it would take the intellect of both you imbeilic morons to pass just one of the biochemistry, physics, or microbiology classes that she has taken. I am an educator and you are way off base. It would be nice in some ways if UGA were a cake-walk, but IT IS NOT!
dawghater
October 27th, 2010
4:52 pm
Dawwg fans, learn some facts. The NCAA penalizes school where players leave the school before they graduate. At Vandy, you have players that take hard degrees and end up not staying at Vandy and go to another school to take easier degrees. This hurts Vandy’s graduation rates. At UGA you take 6 years of basket weaving and then all the UGA fans think they have a educational institution.
The SEC does not stand for Southeastern Educational Conference!
Delbert D.
October 27th, 2010
4:53 pm
@Jjacketbuzz -”Everybody knows that our football players generally guilty of taking the easiest classes at Tech. The management dept is comprised of nearly half being football players. How hard can that be? Typical football players, I guess.”
Just so you know:
GT Enrollment Data for Fall 2009:
Architecture 651
Computing 920
Engineering 7,902
Ivan Allen* 936
Management 1,356
Sciences 1,177
No College Declared 573
Total 13,515
*College of Liberal Arts
JJacketBuzz
October 27th, 2010
4:57 pm
It seems that all the really successful engineers out in the real world, tend to have a blue collar air about themselves, like they could go out and build their designs with their bare hands if they needed to. My fellow Tech grads tend to have this quality missing, like they couldn’t tell the difference between a wood or metal screw. I think we were taught way too much theory and not enough hands-on problem solving.
dawghater
October 27th, 2010
4:58 pm
A Dumbaxx Delbert. Graduated with an IM with honors at Tech. You know nothing about the topic you think you know so much about!
Delbert D.
October 27th, 2010
4:59 pm
Surprisingly, nobody asked for info on Georgia football majors. I haven’t checked the UGA web site since August, so it may not be complete.
2010 Upperclassmen Lettermen
Justin Anderson, JR RG: Housing
Clint Boling, JR LT: Mgt. Information Systems (All-SEC)
Brandon Boykin, JR CB: Pre-Journalism
Drew Butler, JR P: Pre-Journalism (1st team All-America)
Shaun Chapas, SR FB: Pre-Business
Chris Davis, SR OL: Child & Family Development
Josh Davis, SR RT: Speech Communication
Marcus Dowton, JR LB” Pre-Business
Akeem Dent, SR LB: Housing
Demarcus Dobbs, SR LB/DL: Consumer Economics
Kris Durham, SR SE: Middle School Education
Bruce Figgins, JR TE: Speech Communication
Darryl Gamble, SR LB: Housing
Glenn Cordy, JR LG: Education
Logan Gray, JR QB: Pre-Journalism
A.J. Green, JR SE: Pre-Business
Justin Houston, JR LB/DL: Housing (2nd Team All-SEC)
Ben Jones, JR C: Education (2nd Team All-SEC)
Caleb King, JR TB: Housing
Fred Munzenmaier, SR FB: Finance
Richard Samuel, JR LB: Arts and Sciences
Trinton Sturdivant, JR LT: Pre-Business
Kiante Tripp, SR LB/DL: Sport Management
Israel Troupe, JR FLK: Housing
DeAngelo Tyson, JR DT: Housing
Blair Walsh, JR K: Pre-Business/Economics (2nd Team All-SEC)
Aron White, JR TE: Pre-Business
7 – Housing
6 – Pre-Business
3 – Pre-Journalism
2 – Speech Communication
2 – Education
1 – Middle School Education
1 – Management Information Systems
1 – Child and Family Development
1 – Consumer Economics
1 – Arts and Sciences
1 – Finance
1 – Sports Management
JJacketBuzz
October 27th, 2010
5:03 pm
Delbert, I appologize. But it seems everybody I ever met in Management at Tech was a footbal player, typical football player major I guess…
Snoop Dawg
October 27th, 2010
5:06 pm
Snoop Dawg’s 1-n list:
1. Win the championship
2. Recruit and coach up quality
3. Matriculate
4. Graduate.
I don’t care if an athlete on scholarship graduates or not. I just want my team to win.
Talk about living in the past!
October 27th, 2010
5:06 pm
Those that bring up the 1980s Jan Kemp situation at Georgia, and only tell part of the story. They do not tell how UGA took their medicine, raised academic standards (even though it cost them some good athletes to other SEC/ACC schools), and while not Vanderbilt or Wake Forest, Dog athletes are certainly doing better classroom work than most of the bigtime athletic programs.
Ed
October 27th, 2010
5:07 pm
What? Everyone knows that UF is the other Vandy of the SEC. Just ask any UF alum. Or at least they are the Vandy of North-Central Florida…
Former Georgian
October 27th, 2010
5:09 pm
Winning is important. Preparing the players for life after football is more important. UGA needs to think long and hard before dumping a coach with an excellent record in both.
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October 27th, 2010
5:10 pm
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Can You Dig It
October 27th, 2010
5:14 pm
Delbert…your posts on here definitely show how you got the name Delbert….do you really think anyone gives a sh_t about what classes Tech players are taking?…Do You?…are you that mental?…Tech is school for nerds…Georgia is a school for well rounded people who don’t go around telling everyone how great they are and what degree they are majoring in and aren’t named DELBERT….What a bunch of tools you Tech people are……..Can You Dig It!
Rob
October 27th, 2010
5:15 pm
Dawghater – We’re well aware that not all athletes stay in school until they graduate. Check the NFL… we seem to have a few that left early to pursue quite a sucessfull career.
SupDawg
October 27th, 2010
5:18 pm
Yeah, Georgia Equestrian is comprised of mostly smokin’-hot chics that like to wear tight paints and leather knee-high boots, a concept that I know is hard to grasp at Tech. Oh and BTW, they don’t major in equestrian. It’s an athletic program. Yeah, that one sounded really intelligent. Keep talkin’ Trek fans, you’re sounding dumber by the minute…
Rob
October 27th, 2010
5:20 pm
JJacketBuzz – you are becoming my favorite Tech grad