Just in case anyone wants to claim the NCAA rates (GSR) are skewed, the federal graduation rate (FGR) for student athletes of 65% is still ahead of the general student population.
Lots of good data available on graduation rates on the NCAA site. PRR you should really find a minute or three to peruse it.
No PRR, you are simply trying to get out of what you said. You used a phrase commonly accepted to apply to the body as whole and are trying to suggest that we should have known that you really meant it to apply to a small subset? I could perhaps buy into your reasoning if the context of the OP supported your argument that the title was directed at just a small subset of college athletics. I invite you and anyone else to read the OP again. Your last sentence makes it clear that you meant all of them, not just some of them.
I’ll agree something needs to be done with the big D-1 programs. My own alma mater while posting an overall GSR of 80% had pretty lousy numbers in thier 4 big D-1 programs.
I’d also beg you to do more research into women’s athletics in college before you pull the plug on all of them. I think you will be pleasantly surprised at the success of women student athletes.
No, it was just a bit of conversational ribbing. I was getting back at you for insinuating that all student athletes were nearly illiterate bricks. As I mentioned upthread, 80ish percent of my college soccer team graduated with an engineering degree (including myself), so your claims of universality of your experience just rubbed me the wrong way.
At the risk of sounding stupid (I truly know nothing about sports, though my husband is slowly trying to teach me about football)… can someone explain what “D-1” means?
Let’s parse down the magnitude of the OP’s problem.
Approximate number of college students enrolled in degree granting institutions in the US: 20 million.
Let’s limit the corruptible students to football and basketball programs in D1-A schools.
Approximate # of D1-A schools - 140
Assuming that there are 110 scholarship football players and 13 basketball players on scholarship at each school, total would be 1,722.
That’s .009% of the total students enrolled in college. How can such a small number be such a distraction on our college educational process? Exaggerate much?
