Knight Commission: Bowl teams should graduate half of players

[BamaNation]

What are your thoughts on this? Is it a good idea or just another way for the "little" schools trying to find a way to get parity with the traditional schools that made college football what it is today?

Knight Commission: Bowl teams should graduate half of players

December 9, 2004

MIAMI (AP) -- The Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics renewed its recommendation that eligibility for bowl games be reserved for teams that graduate at least 50 percent of their players.

The commission cited statistics released Tuesday showing 27 of this season's 56 bowl teams failed to graduate at least 50 percent of their players within six years of their initial enrollment. Thus, nearly half of the bowl teams would not have been eligible for the games under the commission's recommendation.

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news?slug=ap-bowlteams-graduation&prov=ap&type=lgns

 

[RollTideinGA]

Well whats Bama's precentage. Then I'll vote.

 

[Queasy1]

I think the Knight Commission's suggestions will be ignored just as they have been for a very long while.

 

[mikeua69]

If this passes, will Tutorsee ever make it to another bowl??

 

[Big tide fan forever]

Again as always I hate the NCAA

 

[CapstoneTider]

Can you say academic fraud, bogus courses, watered-down curricula, and pressure on faculty to give passing grades?

Or Tennessee.

 

[cbfactor]

Acedemics should always preceed atheletics. In the long run winning ball games is not near as formiddable as having a college degree. However, I do not want this plan to be implemented if it is going to cause kids to "fudge" and major in things like "General Studies" and "Physical Education"

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Mebbe...

Speling shud preceed acedemics, in my oppiononn.

 

[CrimsonChuck]

I would support it if they count graduation rates in a fair way. Right now, they do not. The way it is set up now, any player who does not graduate within 7 years of entering school counts against graduation rates. That includes players who go to the NFL or transfer to another school. I would support it if they changed that to one half of the players who finish their eligiblity at Bama (or whatever their final school is). They could require that an athlete must finish school within, say, two years of completing their eligibility. If a player is going to be in a professional (or minor) sports league, then the two year requirement should be put on hold until the player is either retired or done with their career.

 

[Bamaro]

I think it is a good idea but the graduation rate should be related to the overall graduation rate of the university. In other words it shouldn't be simply 50%, it should be a fraction, i.e. 80%, of the Universities overall graduation rate.

 

[Bama-94-00]

Maybe

If they properly accounted for transfers, and players leaving early for pros, teams should graduate at least half of their players in 6 years. Don't really think it should be a condition for bowl eligibility though.

 

[TideFan in AU]

Speling shud preceed acedemics, in my oppiononn.

Dat wuz purdee harrsh, Url!!

 

[Alanbama27]

The biggest problem with this is>>>

why should graduation rate be a factor? We already have the rule that says each and every player must pass to play, therefore, just because somebody drops out of school after their 5 to play 4 eligibility is up shouldn't count against the school, as graduating is a personal preference once their playing eligibility is up!

Also, the NCAA stands for National Collegiate Athletic Association. Where does it say anything in the name about school graduation rates? This is an athletic body trying to govern graduation rates of Universities...talk about over stepping your bounds!

 

[TiderinVA]

The whole graduation rate thing is massive overblown

I seem to recall that nationwide, the graduation rate for non athletes is about 50%. If that's so, why should athletes be held to a higher standard? It makes no sense.

Furthermore, I take with a grain of salt the graduation rates for athletes because you'll always have a sizeable portion of athletes that won't take advantage of academic support that is out there for them and don't care about getting a degree. How can the NCAA MAKE athletes care about getting a degree? You can't force someone to want to graduate! As such, I take the whole graduation rates thing with a grain of salt.

 

[TommyMac]

Speling shud preceed acedemics, in my oppiononn.

Yore ded wright.

 

[rollntider]

Well I think every school should be held to the same standard. If one school has a rate of 70% and UcheaT cheats theirs to 99% (they even have a few that cant even cheat right) this would not even be fair.