Rivals Story On Apr Scores

[SUMG]

We're the second hardest hit in all of FBS:

http://www.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=943457

[Green to the Bone]

We're the second hardest hit in all of FBS:

http://www.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=943457

And three of 11 are from the Sun Belt. An unhappy coincidence.

Or is it proof of the academically elevated status of the Public Ivies such as the one in Norman?

[UNTFan23]

Every Division I sports team calculates its APR each academic year based on the eligibility, retention and graduation of each student-athlete on scholarship. Teams with two consecutive years of underperformance are subject to scholarship losses or restrictions of practice time. A postseason ban applies after three years of poor performance, while a fourth year of underperformance can result in possible restricted Division I membership for an entire athletic department.

What exactly is restricted Division 1 membership? How is it fair to other athletes if a group in one sport can't do what it takes to make the grade?

Is it possible for an athletic department to reach a point where they can't recruit quality athletes in all sports that are also stars in the classroom if the entire department weighed down with NCAA sanctions?

[H-towngreen]

What exactly is restricted Division 1 membership? How is it fair to other athletes if a group in one sport can't do what it takes to make the grade?

Is it possible for an athletic department to reach a point where they can't recruit quality athletes in all sports that are also stars in the classroom if the entire department weighed down with NCAA sanctions?

I'd imagine thats why it's restricted....restricted to the sports that aren't performing. It's not like our soccer team got penalized for DD's kids poor performence in the classroom....only this years football team. Which still doesn't make much sense to me. It's like saying the Cowboys were the NFL's most penalized team 4 years ago so they are going to take away 3 draft picks in this years draft????

[eulessismore]

What exactly is restricted Division 1 membership? How is it fair to other athletes if a group in one sport can't do what it takes to make the grade?

Is it possible for an athletic department to reach a point where they can't recruit quality athletes in all sports that are also stars in the classroom if the entire department weighed down with NCAA sanctions?

What is quoted doesn't explain the penalties against UNT football, if what RV is quoted as saying in the UNT Daily article is correct (which does sound like it's about a score from 4 years ago). Is it possible that anyone, (RV?), anyone, can come on here and explain to us the NCAA's reasons for these penalties. Maybe an explanation of this could save our board members from starting threads comparing the relative merits of water torture conducted by the Japanese in WWII compared to American waterboarding methods, compared to survival of American and British POW's captured by the Japanese vs. the German Nazis. Or, perhaps the tin foil helmets really do make about as much sense as anything.

My new conspiracy theory: the NCAA penalties against UNT football are to create a distraction from being accused of running a "Communist" system of determining a national championship.

[UNTLifer]

Georgia Tech, Indiana and Ohio State will lose two men's basketball scholarships apiece for not graduating enough players, the NCAA announced Wednesday with the release of its Academic Progress Rates.

Minnesota and Ole Miss each lost three football scholarships.

Those were the only programs from the so-called "Big Six" conferences to lose multiple scholarships in one of the two major sports – football or men's basketball.

Guess we should hire people to attend class with our players to take their notes like OU does. How freaking ridiculous is that?

[Huff]

I think the point that the NCAA is trying to make is that it isn't Dickey's players or Dodge's players it is North Texas' players. The name of the coach does not matter. They are trying to get the university to understand that it is the responsibility of the university to recruit players that can actually have a chance to get a degree and work toward making sure the players make progress towards that degree. I agree that any coach can have a "crop failure" type class. I believe that is why the evaluation is done over more than one year.

[meangreen-mba]

I thought TD had elevated the overallgpaon the team. Does this take into account the defections from the last 2 years? I am confused as to how they grade this thing? Is it like when a coach violates recruiting rules, leaves a team, and the NCAA hammers the team anyway?