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
Goldenrod
June 20th, 2012
2:08 pm
Our boys at GIT are still smarter!
We WILL Run This State!
CPJ's maaaan boobs
June 20th, 2012
2:09 pm
@Goldenrod Not if I have anything to do about it… Signed, your coach.
Dawg fan
June 20th, 2012
2:16 pm
Hey goldenrod key word in your statement “will.” How long should we wait for this “will” to happen? Because it sure is taking a while.
DawginLex
June 20th, 2012
2:20 pm
great job by our coaches and student athletes
CPJ's maaaan boobs
June 20th, 2012
2:21 pm
@Dawg fan It’s not going to happen again during my tenure and deep down the tech fans know this to be true. I’m gettin’ the shakes, where did I put my jelly donut?
CPJ's maaaan boobs
June 20th, 2012
2:24 pm
I found it in my cigar box. Who would put a jell donut in a cigar box?
BigGAdawg
June 20th, 2012
2:34 pm
Great job to all the coaches, educators, athletes, and tutors!!! Keep up the good work.
@ GoldenNimrod, OOOOOH & AAAAAH, you guys are so great…HA HA HA HA…Yuk Yuk Yuk Yuk…LOL LOL LOL. ROTF-LMAO
Someday you will probably get another win–anybody can get lucky.
In the mean time thanks for keeping man-boobs on as your goofy-coach for the little vocational-technical school in the hood.
BigGAdawg
June 20th, 2012
2:39 pm
Moms and Dads, send little Johnny and little Suzy to GA Tech, if they survive the experience they will have a diploma and an inflated sense of their own self-worth. Just be sure they are armed to the teeth and have had plenty of martial arts training so they will have a chance of dealing with the numerous gun an knife wielding “neighbors” they will encounter, who will be trying to rob them, when they are out for a walk.
TampaGator
June 20th, 2012
2:41 pm
The Georgia guys on the men’s golf team should get together with the Georgia gals on the women’s swim team (and maybe even some of the gals on the women’s cross country team) and plan to have future Dawg babies.
Go Gators.
Bama In Atlanta
June 20th, 2012
2:43 pm
Great to see Bama is in the top tier. These are stats that should be publicised more often so that recruits can get a bigger picture of each school rather than just athletics.
Interesting that Ole Miss’ scores for football were almost at the bottom but their basketball scores were at the top.
Sam
June 20th, 2012
2:49 pm
Anyone fail miserably?
Burdell
June 20th, 2012
2:53 pm
Please tell me y’all know that Goldenrod is not a Tech fan…just a pot-stirring troll. What sincere individual would actually call themselves Goldenrod anyway?
Impressive APR scores for UGA Athletics…congrats to the student-athletes.
Interested to see next year if our basketball APR gets any better with CGB at the helm.
Burdell
June 20th, 2012
2:54 pm
Let’s try this again….with CGB at the helm. GO JACKETS!
Burdell
June 20th, 2012
2:55 pm
Auto-correct and auto-tune…two of the worst inventions in recent years.
Jimmy Crack
June 20th, 2012
3:01 pm
How can Kentucky even HAVE an APR in basketball? Their players don’t even last one season…oh, how silly of me. They must be averaging in all those short white guys sutured to the bench.
Just The Facts
June 20th, 2012
3:01 pm
@ Bama In Atlanta
Another Tide genius….”Publicised” Try publicized. You probably took the same courses those Tide football players are breezing through to keep those dudes in school long enough until their eligibility is up.
Ray
June 20th, 2012
3:03 pm
Tennessee needs to do something about their Football just saying.
DawginLex
June 20th, 2012
3:13 pm
jimmy crack
Because the players go to class and do quite well while they are there. Only Daniel Orton has left and not completed his classes. If you complete your classes, you don’t get penalized for going to the NBA
Dawg1
June 20th, 2012
3:17 pm
Slipped a little in football, slipped a lot in BB.
You can tell the influence or lack of from the new regime.
THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HMMMMMMM
June 20th, 2012
3:27 pm
Would the APR be lower for many of those schools if the easy majors were not available?
hARVARD OF THE sOUTH
June 20th, 2012
3:37 pm
You mean recreational life-style Studies?
PEACH TREE
June 20th, 2012
3:40 pm
Can Georgia State upset Tennessee ?
Bama In Atlanta
June 20th, 2012
3:44 pm
@ Just The Facts
What a petty person you must be to deride someone over one misspelled word. I assume you are a UGA fan and I would think that you would be proud of how well UGA did instead of trying to build yourself up by putting someone else down.
DawginLex
June 20th, 2012
3:44 pm
dawg1
What new regime?
Scores are from 2007-08 Richt has been there 11 years and McGarity did not arrive until 2009
PEACH TREE
June 20th, 2012
3:45 pm
Curry vs Dooley.
Bama=home of the T-bag special
June 20th, 2012
3:48 pm
TampaGator the gator boys golf team should get together with the boys wrestlers and do what gator boys always do together …Tickle Pile ! Sorry Tampa I could not help myself.
PEACH TREE
June 20th, 2012
3:48 pm
Can Bama win the SEC West this year?
Much less the South Eastern Conference.
PEACH TREE
June 20th, 2012
3:51 pm
How did Alabama get a ‘wild card’ berth?
PEACH TREE
June 20th, 2012
4:01 pm
Oklahoma State won the BIG12 Conference.
Alabama comes in Second in the SEC West Division.
Alabama comes in third in the South Eastern Conference.
bucket
June 20th, 2012
4:11 pm
@ Bama in Atlanta – don’t push Just the facts off on us, I can assure you he is not a Dawg fan after reading all the posts from the last several months. Congrats to all the student/athletes who are actually working hard on the field and in the classroom.
Delbert D.
June 20th, 2012
4:12 pm
Georgia Tech scored 974. That’s an improvement over last year’s 966.
Delbert D.
June 20th, 2012
4:18 pm
That’s football, by the way. Tech is 5th in the ACC for 2010-2011. Basketball, bad; 935, last in the ACC. Thanks, Hewitt.
909
June 20th, 2012
4:19 pm
The last time this was reported UGA was 2nd only to Vandy.
Second to Vandy, really ??
It’s easier to get higher APR’s when your athletes are enrolled
in remedial English and other basket weaving classes.
These stats reflect 2 things:
The NCAA academic standards are a joke.
UGA’s academic standards are an even bigger joke.
When 58% of this state’s total high school graduates are academically marginal,
then you know UGA’s stats are based on really watered down coursework.
ANY school can get their APR if the take courses in remedial basketball studies.
But let’s not mention Jim Herrick’s B-Ball classes.
Delbert D.
June 20th, 2012
4:29 pm
909 – The NCAA has new requirements for GPA and core courses for enrollment beginning in August, 2016. Over 40% of college football players now enrolled would not qualify under the new requirements.
kingster
June 20th, 2012
4:56 pm
Congrats UGA fans
Deacon Blues
June 20th, 2012
4:59 pm
Hey Peach Fuzz, keep on hating!! Sux to be a Dawg fan doesn’t it! UGA= University of Great Underachievers!!
PEACH TREE
June 20th, 2012
5:05 pm
a Bachelor of Arts in Recreational Life Style.
PEACH TREE
June 20th, 2012
5:07 pm
it sucks to be a beamon deacon
OH Bama
June 20th, 2012
5:11 pm
Yes and Auburn is at the bottom in Football and Basketball or as we say in the west Auburn just being Auburn…
Delbert D.
June 20th, 2012
5:16 pm
Tennessee, Maryland and NC State among the local conferences were the “anchors” in football at 931.
RTR22
June 20th, 2012
5:38 pm
“They have a name for the winners in the world, that’s why they call Alabama the Crimson Tide.”
Steely Dan
Deacon Blues
Big Crimson 75
June 20th, 2012
6:25 pm
It’s not easy carrying the Conference
UGADawg83
June 20th, 2012
6:25 pm
Kinda sad that our gymnastics coach whose team won more than they lost, notched a perfect academic score, and who was not involved in a scandal got the axe.
Beast from the East
June 20th, 2012
6:35 pm
Tim,
So Auburn, LSU and Arkansas are now ineligible for postseason play in hoops? If so, does that include the SEC tournament? I read where UCONN is facing that in the Big East.
Delbert D.
June 20th, 2012
7:01 pm
Below 900 is the 3rd level of penalties.
Tereza Khan
June 20th, 2012
7:03 pm
These numbers are pretty much meaningless unless you list the degrees the football and basketball players are enrolled for. They’re mostly laughable degrees that are worthless in the real world job market. Jokes, actually.
Be kind to those homeless wretches pushing shopping carts around. Some of them are former UGA athletic jocks.
Jim Harrick
June 20th, 2012
7:10 pm
As a reminder, this is a sample of the rigorous academics for UGA athletes:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2480912/posts
Harrick is gone, but nothing else has changed at UGA.
Matt in ATL
June 20th, 2012
7:12 pm
If I were a NCAA investigator, I would be looking at Ole Miss’ basketball program. Sounds fishy.
Beast from the East
June 20th, 2012
8:18 pm
Tereza,
Any degree is worthless unless you are in a specialized field like medicine, law, engineering, etc. It’s nothing more than a measuring stick used by companies that MAY help get your foot in the door. I routinely hire college grads with general degrees at a pretty low starting salary. I have to pay top dollar for PROVEN talent. Experience on the job trumps a worthless degree any day.
tenn.DAWG
June 20th, 2012
8:30 pm
Athens by far the best college town in the top five,maybe they got points for that.
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