NCAA releases APR figures; here’s how UGA teams scored
All of the University of Georgia’s sports teams scored well above the NCAA-mandated cutoff in the latest Academic Progress Rate (APR) figures released by the NCAA this afternoon.
A Division I team with an APR score — a four-year measure of the academic eligibility and retention of athletes – below 930 can face penalties such as reductions in practice time or scholarships if the team also had at least one athlete leave school academically ineligible. Additionally, a team with a four-year APR score below 900, including 930 or less in the two most recent years included in the calculation, can be declared ineligible for postseason play.
Georgia teams incurred no penalties, all scoring 955 or higher. Two posted perfect scores of 1,000: the men’s golf and women’s gymnastics teams.
The Georgia football team’s four-year APR score was 970, compared to a national average in that sport of 948. The UGA men’s basketball team scored 960, compared to a national average of 950.
Georgia’s APR tied for third among SEC schools in football (behind Vanderbilt and Florida, tied with Alabama). The Bulldogs ranked ninth among SEC men’s basketball teams.
Here are the APR’s, released today, of the Georgia teams (figures cover the 2007-08 through 2010-11 academic years):
Baseball 955
Football 970
Men’s basketball 960
Men’s cross-country 967
Men’s golf 1000
Men’s swimming 967
Men’s tennis 970
Men’s track, indoor 976
Men’s track, outdoor 965
Softball 972
Women’s basketball 975
Women’s cross-country 996
Women’s golf 976
Women’s gymnastics 1000
Women’s soccer 989
Women’s swimming 998
Women’s tennis 983
Women’s track, indoor 984
Women’s track, outdoor 984
Women’s volleyball 984
Here’s how SEC schools compared in football APR’s released today (figures cover the 2007-08 through 2010-11 academic years):
Vanderbilt 978
Florida 972
Alabama 970
Georgia 970
South Carolina 966
LSU 964
Mississippi State 959
Kentucky 951
Auburn 943
Arkansas 936
Mississippi 933
Tennessee 931
And here’s how SEC schools compared in men’s basketball APR’s released today (figures cover the 2007-08 through 2010-11 academic years):
Mississippi 990
Alabama 984
Florida 983
Vanderbilt 971
South Carolina 968
Mississippi State 965
Kentucky 963
Tennessee 962
Georgia 960
Auburn 925
LSU 911
Arkansas 894
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83 comments Add your comment
Fan of the Game
June 20th, 2012
9:37 pm
Kentucky basketball is a joke when it comes to the term student/athlete.
Atlanta Gator
June 20th, 2012
9:38 pm
So, what’s up with the Ole Miss basketball team having the highest graduation rate in the SEC? I didn’t see that one coming . . . .
GT-SUCKS
June 20th, 2012
9:43 pm
Goldenrod: We know from the name what you like. Your husband must be happy.
gawgadawg
June 20th, 2012
10:37 pm
you can tell goldenrod is a member of the double dumb ass club at techie
Tim Tucker
June 20th, 2012
11:45 pm
Beast from the East: No, Auburn, LSU and Arkansas are NOT ineligible from postseason play. Connecticut was the only major-conference team to be declared ineligible. The cutoff for that penalty is a four-year APR score of 900 (Auburn and LSU were above that), and even if below 900, you’re spared the postseason penalty if your two-year score is above 930 (which Arkansas’ apparently was).
Cobb Dawg
June 20th, 2012
11:58 pm
Tenucee is awways at thu buttum!
Paddy
June 21st, 2012
7:06 am
Well Arkansas didn’t shock any one with good scores.
Jan Kemp
June 21st, 2012
7:24 am
The entire state should have been embarrassed had ugag not met the minimum. Look at the all the majors, for God’s sake, that are available to all the future USPS employees.
Vance Dully
June 21st, 2012
7:35 am
Bless you, Jan.
Jborodawg
June 21st, 2012
8:40 am
Cross country and track need to step it up.
The Tide is rolling and nothing can stop it
June 21st, 2012
8:54 am
Oversigning Saban ties St. Richt in APR. You guys must see why the rest of the country laughs at you eventually, right?
iceie james
June 21st, 2012
9:18 am
I still cant see why a bammer with all those championships has the need to be on our boards all the time! Must not like being a bammer. Po bammer, success aint everything huh?
beanster
June 21st, 2012
9:27 am
All Tech football players are geniuses. Just ask Reggie Ball.
Georgia is Vandy without the education
June 21st, 2012
9:49 am
Now wait till the football team loses to Missou, Vandy, SC, UF, Ole Miss and Auburn.
Georgia is Vandy without the education
June 21st, 2012
9:50 am
beanster, you ever hear Cromagnon Man Jonathan Nesbitt talk?
Beno Dawg
June 21st, 2012
9:56 am
yup I`m sure all tech football players are engineers
Red Dawn
June 21st, 2012
10:42 am
Some dawg fans making fun of Alabama graduating rates in
the past need to look at WHO IS right up there with Vandy!!
RTR
Kramer
June 21st, 2012
10:47 am
Tide rolling (in it’s own stool), what does one thing have to do with the other. You guys have a great football program. To bad most of their fans are dumber then a box of rocks. Let me help you son, rocks don’t have brains so they can’t think. Thought I better explain that one.
claytondawg
June 21st, 2012
11:03 am
@Bama fan…ONE misspelled word? I’m sorry, but being an English teacher for over 34 years, I disagree with you. Over the years, so many of my students would say the same thing; however, I countered with: “So, it’s ok for one misspelled word? Maybe two is not so bad either? If two is not so bad, then what about three?” Many saw the point; and then some couldn”t care less. For the most part, some of the students understood that mediocrity is too prevaling in schools and now in society. SPELL CHECK or READ OVER AND CORRECT.
claytondawg
June 21st, 2012
11:04 am
Oh, by the way: ‘GO DOGS!!
claytondawg
June 21st, 2012
11:08 am
Uh oh. There shoud be an apostrophe in couldn’t instead of a quote.
Skokie Dog
June 21st, 2012
11:51 am
Please stop with the comments about easy majors and dumb jocks. Every university in the U.S. has some easy majors and certain professors who award inflated grades. (Yes, even at places such as Harvard.) In spite of the usual stereotypes, not every student-athlete chooses those programs.
DP
June 21st, 2012
11:58 am
“too prevaling”? I never taught English, but the correct spelling is “prevailing”; however even if you had spelled it correctly it would still have been grammatically incorrect. It should be “too prevalent”.
SPELL CHECK or READ OVER AND CORRECT.
If you want to see a nightmare for an English teacher, take a look at the posts of 7576Dawg. He puts an apostrophe in front of the s on virtually every word that ends with an s. Except of course for the ones that should have an apostrophe; he leaves it out on those.
BamaGuy
June 21st, 2012
12:03 pm
Now lets just all continue our wait for Georgia to win any game of significance….Still Waiting……
Joe 12-Pack
June 21st, 2012
2:55 pm
How does Jim Calhoun still have a job?
UGAGrad'71
June 21st, 2012
3:38 pm
Some on this blog are too young to remember when UGA went 14 years in a row with an academic All American, plus awards other in football. How many on this blog putting down UGA for poor academic performance actually attended a major University and graduated with a degree. Or perhaps, you earned your associates degree at the “double arches”.
Bull Connor
June 21st, 2012
9:33 pm
Our fellars at Alabumma know how to take thar lessons and practice their cypherin’ and such.
We don’t like no race-mixin’ though.
Andy
June 22nd, 2012
10:13 am
How did race mixing get in here Coach Byrant signed the first Black player to play in the SEC Wilburn Jackson. Wasn”t Ga Tech the school that refused to play Pitt in the Sugar Bowl because they had Black players on the team. UGA is always talking trash about how much smarter UGA players are than Alabama and UGA tied for 3rd place in football and Ala was 2nd or 3rd in basketball and Uga was barely in the top ten Also. that UGA is the richest school in the SEC Ala took in 124 million dollars, Fla 123 million and UGA was way down the list in 6 th or 7th place at 97 million I tell you those UGA fans have a very Vivid imagination..
Brainiac(CMR/UGA fan for life)
June 22nd, 2012
10:44 am
@ Andy:
That would be” Wilbur” Jackson!!!!!!!!!
And HELL NO GT didn’t refuse to play any team at any time except Bammy and that was a result of Bammy’s hoodlum LB breaking Chick Granning’s jaw with an illegal blow.
What DID happen with GT and Pittsburg was that the LOW LIFE Governor of Georgia(Not quite as lowlife as Bammy’s George Wallace) tried to stop GT from playing the game but GT paid no attention to the idiot Governor!!!
Your Single Digit IQ is showing ONCE AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fifteen to Life
June 23rd, 2012
3:49 am
How do they factor in convicted felons?
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8073357/antonio-goodwin-former-auburn-tiger-gets-15-year-sentence
Dawgsam03
June 23rd, 2012
10:36 am
Very few of the atheletes in the major sports,I.e. football and basketball, take meaningful courses or obtain useful degrees. How do I know this? I just do. So do you. And half of them will have serious orthopedic problems later in life. But I can’t wait until football season! Go Dawgs! I wish we played ‘Bamar instead of MO this year. Who knows we might beat them. We have a helluva DEFENSE! Just hope the O-line can hold up. We are favored in every game at this point! Now, that’s ….. I don’t someone tell me ……. Ludicrous, to quote Mike Tyson! LMAO
Kmac
June 25th, 2012
1:12 pm
Very disappointing
Kmac
June 25th, 2012
1:13 pm
but expected from dogs