Michigan finishes thirtd in NCAA APR report
Michigan earned third place in both Football and Basketball in the latest Academic Progress Report as reported by the College Football news.
https://collegefootballnews.com/2019/05/2019-ncaa-academic-progress-rate-football-apr-rankings-by-conference/2
Sorry, I meant to say 3rd in the big Ten.
Anyone happen to notice who finished first in the FBS??
MY alma mater... Air Force!!! Wooo hooooooooo!!!!!!
I is smart.
Aren't cadets contractually obligated to finish and serve?
Indeed they are.
Damn... thirtd place again
You mean third in the B1G East...
Was it outright 3rd place or division co-champs?
Imagine the uproar if we had somehow ended up in fourtxh place.
Imagine the time we'd spend trying to ascertain whether or not the "x" was silent.
too bad we weren't secondt!
Congratdulations!
For those who don't know (I didn't): "Implemented in 2003 as part of an ambitious academic reform effort in Division I, the Academic Progress Rate (APR) holds institutions accountable for the academic progress of their student-athletes through a team-based metric that accounts for the eligibility and retention of each student-athlete for each academic term."
https://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/research/division-i-academic-progress-rate-apr
Also, we finished third in the Big Ten. Michigan State was last (14th). If you want to run various searches on various schools and sports, you can do so here: https://web3.ncaa.org/aprsearch/aprsearch
I don't know anything about this, so please someone who does - are we being penalized on this metric for players leaving early to the NFL/NBA or are we simply "Leaders and 3rd best... in the B1G"? If the latter, Michigan should be doing better, but our not amazing performance may be due to the overall quality of Michigan as a university.
Clearly the football team has all the resources necessary to get kids through their classes.
Depends on whether the player finishes the academic year. Say for basketball, you have 13 scholarship players; that's a possible 26 "points". You get one point for the student athlete staying in school and another for them being in good academic standing. So, say you have 3 early entries into the NBA. If they finish the spring semester and are in good standing, they would receive all 6 points. If one of them leaves before the semester is over, they would be docked a point (25 out of 26 possible points = 962 APR).
According to OP's link, and assuming I didn't miss any, there were only 13 football teams that posted a lower APR score than MSU. Lol that's almost as bad as our offense this past season. I'm not really sure how it's calculated, but I would guess the 2016 recruiting class in particular is hurting the score. That class was just an absolute disaster, and all of the departures can't be helping. MSU's score has tanked the last 2 years after being in the 970's the 3 years prior. I think 970's is about where I'd expect MSU football to be academically, not great but not awful.
At least basketball is doing well, scoring 1000 for the fourth straight year.
This may come as a shock to you but our offense was ranked #25 in S&P last season.
(Before somebody misses the point, obviously #25 is not good enough but if I only read comments on this blog I'd think we were ranked #125. I prefer criticism that is... quantitatively accurate.)
Lol I'm a Spartan. I think calling our (MSU's) offense dreadful last season would be a compliment.
*snickers to self at desk*
At 948 MSU would be last even in the SEC. Hmmmm
Imagine their score if MSU still required math.
ohio is above us....please, make it stop....
All my maps show Ohio still below us, XM.
Pro tip: try doing this ? with your map.
And to think they don't even go to OSU to play school makes it even worse that the school is ranked higher than Michigan.
Not surprised Staee is dead last in the conference. But sure, Dantini is a stand up guy nothing to see here. What a joke.
If Sparty has another meh season I think it will be the beginning of the end times for Mork. It actually may have already began.
Tough week for tiny tom!
Why, what did I miss? Too short to go on the rides at cedar point?
This alone tells me there isn't necessarily a strong correlation between the APR and the academic strength of an institution.
Actually, this alone might be telling you that there's a NEGATIVE correlation between APR and the academic level of the university. It's much easier to meet performance benchmarks when you're at a shitty school like Arkansas or KState. People don't "play school" at OSU, yet they're somehow ahead of us?
Except Northwestern is 1st in the Big Ten, so a negative correlation doesn't hold water either. I'm sure I've read somewhere about the flaws of the APR system, but can't recall the details. Maybe somebody with more knowledge can enlighten us.
APR is alright but it has its flaws. It also doesn't necessarily mean the kids are doing well in school - they're just doing the minimum.
Scholarship kids get a point for staying elligible and another for staying in school. Then it's decided by points possible and multiplied by 1000.
I think looking at what the kids are studying and what the GPAs are is more relevant.
Selection effect. NU is going to be more filled with athletes who prioritize their education to an extent that Michigan isn't. Michigan players, no offense, will be more hit or miss but our team isn't shooting for 9 wins a year. I'm sure Harvard would have a great score as well, due to selection effects.
Michigan is in this weird spot, where school matters but winning a lot matters too. ND might be the only school in that same niche.
Sparty a bunch of meatheads.
Minus 60 points for rape.
So you’re saying we actually play school?
noice.
The APR follows the NCAA trend of delegation to remove responsibility from themselves.
If you lookup how its defined (https://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/research/academic-progress-rate-explained), its based off of the academic eligibility of different players. The eligibility of the players is based on how they preform in the classroom, a function of the university. While coaches cannot directly consult teachers to effect student class scores, you can bet that the rigor of courses is not consistent across all universities.
I'm not saying that Northwestern doesn't have an outstanding academic program. But, if you think that Alabama's APR score means that the athletes at Alabama are receiving a better education than those at Michigan, you are ill informed.
So you've already said. Your OSU education is showing.
Redundancy isn’t accuracy.
Fore accuracy or aft accuracy?