Yeah, you know that whole point of college? LEARNING? Right, that part.
Well, a lot of schools really suck at that College part of College Football. They could be decent at scoring quickly (Oregon) or defense (not Michigan) or over-signing (Alabama) or partying (Ole Miss), but most aren't good at that whole learning/graduating thing. Most. ND is most definitely great at it.
TO ALL YOU PARENTS OF 5-STAR STUDS OUT THERE THAT WANT TOP FLIGHT FOOTBALL/TRADITION/ETC AND ACTUALLY WANT YOUR SON TO GRADUATE, LISTEN UP!
Notre Dame is the bomb in this. Lou over at BGI has the whole break down, but here are the specifics when it comes to football.
Graduation Success Rate (GSR)
1. Notre Dame, 96
2. (tie) Duke, Northwestern, 95
4. Rice, 93
5. U.S. Naval Academy, 92
6. Boston College, 90
7. Vanderbilt, 89
8. Rutgers, 88
9. (tie) Stanford, U.S. Air Force Academy, 86
Look, you don't find SEC schools (that win, sorry Vandy) here. You don't find "traditional powers" like USC and Michigan (which sucks, of course) here. And you certainly don't find Thug U (that's Florida now-a-days) and Auburn.
You find Notre Dame, and a bunch of other schools doing a better job than most. And yes, it's great that Rutgers is doing pretty well here. But they're not on the national radar, and they're well behind ND anyway.
So? Parents? Recruits? You want to play big time ball AND ACTUALLY GET YOUR DEGREE?
N. D.
By Mark G May 2, 2011 - 8:35 am
1. Thank you, thank you, thank you for highlighting this.
2. This is why ND should play teams like Northwestern, Wake Forest, Stanford and BC — the good guys need to support each other.
3. It amazes me that no one – and I mean no one, not even supposed thinkers like Telander – in the main stream sports press ever focuses on the GSR rates of the top 25 college sports teams. In mens football, the GSR rate of the top 25 teams averages less than 60%. That’s right, fewer than 2/3 of the guys who use up their eligibility earn a degree. I mean, how hard can it be to hang around most of these school for 5 plus years, including summer school, and not earn a degree in something?
4. This is also one reason, among many, why ND does not fit in the Big 10 (or whatever it is called now). Except for Northwestern and Penn State (kind of), none of them compare to ND’s GSR.
5. Finally, the biggest shame here is the low GSR among black athletes at most colleges, including schools like USC, Michigan and every SEC team. If the US Dept of Education serves any useful function (a debate for another forum), it should be investigating the exploitation of black college athletes by universties who graduate 50% or fewer of the black athletes who play long enough to use up their eligibility but who in many, many cases are not even close to getting a degree (even though some of them get some great looking tatoos).
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By Garrett May 2, 2011 - 9:54 am
agreed mark..well said!
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