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
5:28 pm
@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?”
Yeah, a lot of folks seem to care. Most of the posts on the blog is people arguing about majors. It’s like a scab, they just keep picking at it.
Note that my original post was a listing for Florida @ 3:33 p.m. Then, people wanted clarification on Georgia Tech, so I had to post, post again, and post some more in order to suspend their disbelief.
I’ll leave it to the haters from whichever schools to post insults. Look in the mirror.
U(sic)GA = World of Pure Inebriation
October 27th, 2010
5:29 pm
News flash….
isn’t that hard to graduate when you’ve got Animal Husbandry, Deer Stand Making, Mayonnaise Sandwich Making, and Manure Shoveling for degrees at the bachelor, masters, and PhD levels
JJacketBuzz
October 27th, 2010
5:33 pm
To my fellow Tech grads: Just say “NO” to the Energy Equation.
JJacketBuzz
October 27th, 2010
5:35 pm
Consevation of Mass: Just say NOOO.
Delbert D.
October 27th, 2010
5:36 pm
@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!”
You might be confusing my posts with the quoted posts from others to whom I was responding. I am simply providing information from the schools’ web site, collated as well as I can. I certainly am not disparaging Georgia Tech in any way.
JJacketBuzz
October 27th, 2010
5:37 pm
There has to be something more in life, like an equestrian team!
Delbert D.
October 27th, 2010
5:37 pm
Stop quantum tunneling!
Delbert D.
October 27th, 2010
5:38 pm
Free radicals now!
JJacketBuzz
October 27th, 2010
5:39 pm
Conservation of Energy: Good Lord NOOO!
Delbert D.
October 27th, 2010
5:40 pm
I’m not sure if Werner Heisenberg was really sure.
JJacketBuzz
October 27th, 2010
5:41 pm
Sorry, the energy equation = conservation of mass = NO. However: AJ Green / Randy Moss = 1.5
Delbert D.
October 27th, 2010
5:44 pm
Beware of collapsing wave functions.
JJacketBuzz
October 27th, 2010
5:46 pm
Well most of the components of energy callapse to zero, you are correct sir.
Georgia fans & Grads plenty of Idiot sandwiches
October 27th, 2010
5:59 pm
All those so called UGA grads work at The Waffle House, Krystals and Zaxby’s and that’s a known fact!
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OoltewahDawg
October 27th, 2010
6:06 pm
Idiot sandwiches, I’ll have you know that my step-cousin graduated in 2002 from UGA with a degree in business. He is an insurance salesman, which is way above zaxby’s, and Krystal. So much for your “known fact”
Supervisor
October 27th, 2010
6:06 pm
Oh Tech boys, now that the facts are in on the fraud of your football players being (ha…) “student athletes” (ha…), please, have one of their academic advisors read the following to them: “A mind is a terrible thing to waste”. Perhaps you have heard this?
Lower than that FSU? Good gosh, this is simply hilarious. Then, you have some idiot on here trying to justify Tech football players are taking a harder curriculum than UGA players – AS IF THEY WOULD GRADUATE ANYWAY, HAAAAAAAA!! – IT’S FRAUD! I always knew these pious Tech alums were a joke is recent years. Sorry, the truth is out of the bottle for good.
Delbert D.
October 27th, 2010
6:09 pm
Supervisor – I like it this way: “The mind is a terrible thing.”
I can’t recall who said that; it might have been on one of the old Bill Cosby LP albums.
Supervisor
October 27th, 2010
6:23 pm
No, Delbert, I had it right the first time. Look, Tech is a great school academically – no question. I am just glad we have finally put this Tech football player “student athlete” fraud to bed finally.
Delbert D.
October 27th, 2010
6:32 pm
Supervisor – If you’re looking for fraud being perpetrated, it’s college basketball and one-and-dones. Supposedly, the NCAA is having discussions with the NBA. What, they suddenly woke up?
SE GA Resident
October 27th, 2010
6:36 pm
As the cute little girl on the Disney World commercial exclaims, “I AM SO EXCITED!” Yes, my husband, two grown children, nephew (he just graduated from Florida, but we still love him), and some other lucky person are going to the GA/FLA game. The only time I have gone was a few years ago when UGA prevailed, so I’m taking the faded top I wore in my purse, just in case it is the winning edge! You gotta love it. Go Dawgs!!!
Delbert D.
October 27th, 2010
6:37 pm
Supervisor – Some of these student-athletes are legit. Kris Durham, for example. He’s a Middle School Education major, and he did his practice teaching semester in the spring.
Supervisor
October 27th, 2010
6:58 pm
Delbert, I agree. My point is TECH alums and fans have gotten on these posts month after month bashing UGA athletes. Funny how the sad truth about their athletes came out – boy did it ever.
Todd
October 27th, 2010
7:05 pm
Great, now on with more important things such as turning the Ga-FL series back in the favor of the Dawgs.
No one keeps track of the reg. student body, or rather reports on it.
DickDawg
October 27th, 2010
7:34 pm
Thank goodness for women’s sports
Hit A Single
October 27th, 2010
7:38 pm
Coach at Oklahoma State has lost control. Lose great player to an agent last year and now a DUI with his star wide receiver. He should be fired!
Yellow Fuzz
October 27th, 2010
7:40 pm
Deldo D,
Compare apples to apples dude. Comparing graduation rates of courses taken at uga to Tech’s without comparing class difficulty is like comparing your Golden Coral ribeye to the one at Ruth Crriss. Get real. Glad the report made you feel better about yourself and your school though little man.
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October 27th, 2010
7:42 pm
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Paul Has A Small Johnson
October 27th, 2010
8:06 pm
Yellow Fuzz
Whats wrong truth hurts.
The truth about your program is that they cannot afford to have the football players take a full load at Tech, less they only have 15 eligible ball players
Thats why they send them to take the majority of their classes at Fulton County Poly Tech
Supervisor
October 27th, 2010
10:04 pm
Yellow Fuzz, no, what hurts is your “student athlete” claim is a fraud – badly exposed. You may have fewer majors but they certainly aren’t graduating anyway – fraud.
Delbert D.
October 27th, 2010
10:15 pm
@Yellow Fuzz
October 27th, 2010
7:40 pm
“Deldo D,
Compare apples to apples dude. Comparing graduation rates of courses taken at uga to Tech’s without comparing class difficulty is like comparing your Golden Coral ribeye to the one at Ruth Crriss. Get real. Glad the report made you feel better about yourself and your school though little man.”
Yellow Fuzz – You are hopelessly confused this time. Go back through the blog and read all of my posts. While you’re at it, read Roberson’s blog on GSRs today.
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Juddist
October 28th, 2010
8:02 am
Football is different from any other sport. If you are good enough to go to the pros you do not have time to graduate and most non-atheletic students do not graduated in four years. If I played and I was good enough to go pro I would wait until later to graduate. Even with degrees how many graduates starting salary would be the NFL average of $200,000.00 per yr.
UGAGirlFAN
October 28th, 2010
9:03 am
My Comment has nothing to do with the article but with all of the these so called Fans naming themselves as UGA fans and then writing negative comments!!!!! So here goes….. I AM SICK OF THESE BANDWAGON FANS-EITHER YOU ARE A FAN OR NOT! THE TRUE FANS, SUCH AS I, ARE THE ONES STILL IN THE STANDS TO THE VERY END WHEN UGA IS BEHIND AND LOSING, WE ARE THE ONES SUPPORTING CMR FOR HIS FIRST EVER START OF A LOSING SEASON AND NOT CALLING OUT FOR A FIRING SQUAD AND WE ARE THE NOT THE ONES THREATENING TO SELL OUR SEASON TICKETS WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH! IF YOU HAVE SUCH NEGATIVE COMPLAINTS AND COMMENTS, PLEASE GO SOMEWHERE ELSE AND ROOT FOR THEM, WE DO NOT NEED YOU! IN OTHER WORDS…..IF YOU CANNOT HANG WITH THE BIG DAWG UGA VIII, THEN GET THE HECK OFF THE PORCH!!! ‘NUFF SAID…….. GOOOOOOO DAWGS AND KICK SOME GATORS ARSE!
droopydawg
October 28th, 2010
10:17 am
It may not be as good as an SEC championship, but something to be proud of nonetheless.
Judge Dawg
October 28th, 2010
10:20 am
The thing that gets over looked is the graduation rates for the general student body. My guess at many schools it is around 65%.
DIT
October 28th, 2010
11:14 am
As a UGA Alumnus this news is very encouraging. Don’t pay attention to the people on here knocking this feet. Well done football team! Now go out and beat those Gators!
Go Dawgs!!!!
SSDD
October 28th, 2010
11:45 am
I’m confident that if UGA added “Coloring with Crayons”
as a major for student-athletes, UGA would be ranked #1
ahead of Vandy in student-athlete graduation rates in.
Of course, it would only make it a much bigger joke
than it already is.
Virginia DAWG
October 28th, 2010
12:37 pm
I am really getting tired of hearing Tech fans and others slamming UGA on academics. In a recent US News and World Report college survey UGA was ranked the 18th best public university and UF was ranked 17th. It was a long way down the list before any of the other SEC schools were listed, which is not necessarily a slam on them but a vote of confidence for what is happening at UGA and UF. My daughter, who made 1350 on the SAT, had a 3.7GPA (7 point system in high school where a 92 was a B) in all AP courses and was the editor of the yearbook was denied admission to UGA but is on scholarship at South Carolina.
Jan Kemp, who actually was a high school friend of mine, happened a long time ago and the UGA of today is no where near the the same school as it was when she blew the whistle. So stop talking about it.
Also, the posted list of UGA football player’s majors listed a number pre-business, pre-journalism, etc. majors. Unlike in the past a student is not admitted to the Terry School of business as a freshman. After their sophomore year they must take an exam, which they have to make 470 out of 500, and have a sufficient GPA in applicable courses to be admitted. Bottom line – the academics at UGA are at a level in which all graduates and current students can take great pride. With time it is only going to get better. I am very proud of the graduation rates of UGA athletes and believe it is indicative of the progress being made.
ckgator
October 31st, 2010
10:03 pm
Truly a stat to be proud of.