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UNT falls short of average on GSR report

07:54 AM CST on Tuesday, December 20, 2005

By Brett Vito / Staff Writer

Athletic director Rick Villarreal knew when he arrived at North Texas in the spring of 2001 that the school’s athletic department had a long way to go to reach its academic goals.

The NCAA’s Graduation Success Rate Report that was released on Monday showed just how far.

All 11 of UNT’s programs finished under the national average for their sport in the report that studied universities’ athletic departments from the 1995-98 school years. The GSR report allowed a six-year window for students who entered the university in those four years to earn their degree.

The scores in the study include athletes who transferred into the school but do not count students who were in good academic standing when they transferred out to another school.

“It shows just what we knew when we got here,” Villarreal said. “We still have a lot to do and are headed in the right direction.”

UNT finished with a 52 percent graduation in football. The Mean Green were seventh among the 10 schools in Texas that play Division I-A football.

UNT ranked third out of the six Division I-A teams at public schools in Texas. The Mean Green ranked in front of Houston (45 percent), Texas (40 percent) and UTEP (37 percent).

UNT posted a 33 GSR rate in men’s basketball, well below the national rate of 58 percent. The Mean Green finished with a 79 percent GSR rate in women’s basketball and finished just below the national average of 81.

Villarreal said UNT’s athletic department’s graduation rate now stands a 67 percent.

The NCAA started the GSR study to better measure the success of universities in graduating their students. The NCAA previously counted transfers against an institution’s graduation rate, even if the athlete earned his degree at another school.

The NCAA included a federal rate that did not take into account transfers and included it in the study. All of UNT’s graduation rates were higher in the GSR category than the federal category.

“This clearly gives us a more accurate portrayal of what is going on at an institution,” NCAA spokesman Erik Christianson said. “The way the federal rate works is that it looks at students six years after they entered an institution to see if they graduated from that school. It wouldn’t take them into account even if they graduated with honors at another university.”

The Sun Belt Conference, of which UNT is a member, also struggled in the GSR report. Only 36 percent of the conference’s teams met or exceeded the national average in their sport.

The GSR is one of two new studies that the NCAA is using to measure academic performance among college athletes. The NCAA is also using an Academic Progress Report study that measures a university’s performance in keeping athletes eligible and in school.

The NCAA has set penalties that can include the loss of scholarships for individual teams that fail to reach a minimum APR score over a two-year period. The two-year APR scores will be released later this year.

Christianson said the NCAA is considering tying scholarship penalties to GSR scores in the future.

Villarreal said earlier this fall that UNT anticipates all of its programs exceeding the pass-fail line in the two-year APR report and avoiding any scholarship penalties.

Villarreal pointed to UNT’s current graduation rate and what he expects to be a solid performance on the APR report as signs that the school is improving on a below-average performance on the GSR report.

“We can always improve,” Villarreal said. “If we are not graduating 100 percent of our athletes, there is always an opportunity to do better. We are proud of our teams that did well and will look at how they can do better. We will also look at the teams that didn’t do well, the reasons why and how they can improve.”

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Villarreal said earlier this fall that UNT anticipates all of its programs exceeding the pass-fail line in the two-year APR report and avoiding any scholarship penalties.

Thank goodness. With a FB team that is already under the scholarship limit, we couldn't afford anymore cuts. huh.gif

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UNT falls short of average on GSR report

UNT posted a 33 GSR rate in men’s basketball, well below the national rate of 58 percent. The Mean Green finished with a 79 percent GSR rate in women’s basketball and finished just below the national average of 81.

Haven't I recently heard someone being critical of Coach Slinker's program? rolleyes.gif

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