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BGSU APR scores...looking sweet!!

Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 7:10 am
by Falconfreak90
http://www.bgsufalcons.com/news/2011/5/ ... 12018.aspx

BGSU Athletics Posts Impressive APR Scores
by Jason Knavel, Assistant Athletic Director for Athletic Communications
5/24/2011 2:18:38 PM

Bowling Green, Ohio – Sixteen of Bowling Green’s 18 sports either retained or improved its Academic Progress Rate (APR) multi-year score from a year ago and both the football and men’s basketball programs posted their highest single-year APR scores since the report began in 2003-04, as released by the NCAA today. All 18 of BGSU’s teams exceed the APR minimum multi-year score of 925 and seven teams posted a perfect single-year score of 1000.

“Once again, we are proud of the work our student-athletes continue to do in the classroom,” Mark Shook, BGSU’s Associate Athletics Director for Compliance and Student-Athlete Services, said. “These results represent the total team effort from the student-athletes committed to their academic pursuits to the coaches who recruit and support them to the support staff we have put around them.”

The football team had a single-year rate of 965 to push its multi-year APR score to 941. The multi-year rate is the average of the last four single-year rates. Two years ago the team took scholarship reductions for a multi-year score below 925 but since head coach Dave Clawson took over the program, the rate improved to 931 a year ago before a 10-point increase again this year.

The men’s basketball team posted its highest score ever, a 980 single-year score for a multi-year rate of 928. The women’s basketball team had its second-highest single-year score ever with a 984, improving its multi-year rate to 979. The ice hockey team showed a 50-point single-year increase from a year ago with a 974 score, but its multi-year rate dropped one point to a 963.

Seven teams posted a perfect 1000 single-year APR score, two more than a year ago. Men’s cross country, men’s golf, men’s soccer, women’s golf, women’s soccer, swimming, and tennis all had scores of 1000.

The women’s tennis team had a perfect multi-year score of 1000, the same score it has received every year of the APR, and received public recognition a week ago for being in the top 10 percent of all teams within that sport.

Both swimming (993) and women’s golf (991) had multi-year scores above 990, while women’s cross country (987), women’s soccer (985), softball (984), gymnastics (980), and volleyball had scores of 980 or better. After women’s basketball’s 979 score, the baseball, indoor track, and outdoor track programs all scored 967. The hockey team had a 963, men’s soccer had a 955 and men’s golf posted a 951. Football had a 941, while men’s cross country had a 935 and men’s basketball scored 928.

APR scores are based on retention and eligibility of each scholarship student-athlete. Each student-athlete can earn four points per year – one point for first-semester eligibility, one point for first-semester retention, one point for second-semester eligibility, and one point for second-semester retention. The total points earned are then divided by total points possible and the decimal place is dropped for the APR score.

The APR is a real-time measure of eligibility, retention and graduation of student-athletes competing on every NCAA Division I athletics team. The most recent scores are based on a multi-year rate that averages scores from the 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09, and 2009-10 academic years. The goal of academic reform is improvement, not punishment. Not only does academic reform ensure accountability for student-athletes, teams and institutions, but it also provides fairness by considering individual circumstances per team and school.

BGSU MULTI-YEAR APR SCORES
Baseball – 967
Men’s Basketball – 928
Men’s Cross Country – 935
Football – 941
Men’s Golf – 951
Ice Hockey – 963
Men’s Soccer – 955
Women’s Basketball – 979
Women’s Cross Country – 987
Women’s Golf – 991
Gymnastics – 980
Softball – 984
Women’s Soccer – 985
Swimming – 993
Women’s Tennis – 1000
Indoor Track and Field – 967
Outdoor Track and Field – 967
Volleyball - 980

I blame Gregg Brandon for the improvement by the football program. :-D

Re: BGSU APR scores...looking sweet!!

Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 8:25 am
by h2oville rocket
I blame Brandon. But your AD is clearly doing a superb job. He is a gem. Congratulations, Falcons.

Re: BGSU APR scores...looking sweet!!

Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 8:28 am
by mjmorefield
The Tennis team scores 1000!

Re: BGSU APR scores...looking sweet!!

Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 9:01 am
by Flipper
Hockey got a 963...that's pretty good considering the language barrier those Canadians face...

Re: BGSU APR scores...looking sweet!!

Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 10:52 am
by daspollak
Its good to see that the sports are seeing the importance of student-athletes.

Re: BGSU APR scores...looking sweet!!

Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 10:33 pm
by sportydude1818
Apr goes up , wins go down! Kinda sad but true ... Let's not get too smart were not trying to win spelling bees on saturdays in the fall

Re: BGSU APR scores...looking sweet!!

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 10:37 am
by daspollak
sportydude1818 wrote:Apr goes up , wins go down! Kinda sad but true ... Let's not get too smart were not trying to win spelling bees on saturdays in the fall
Because of low APR of the past we didn't have many quality players who were here last season. Don't confuse smart athletes with bad athletes.

Re: BGSU APR scores...looking sweet!!

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 12:34 pm
by 1987alum
daspollak wrote:
sportydude1818 wrote:Apr goes up , wins go down! Kinda sad but true ... Let's not get too smart were not trying to win spelling bees on saturdays in the fall
Because of low APR of the past we didn't have many quality players who were here last season. Don't confuse smart athletes with bad athletes.
:supz:

Re: BGSU APR scores...looking sweet!!

Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 8:35 am
by unfalconbelievable
Apr goes up , wins go down! Kinda sad but true ... Let's not get too smart were not trying to win spelling bees on saturdays in the fall

I agree 100%.

Grades don't bring in money to the university but WINS do. If you have every student-athlete that receives a scholarship obtain a 4.0, but the teams are sub 500. Two things will happen, coach will be fired and the alumni, fans and town will be unhappy.

Re: BGSU APR scores...looking sweet!!

Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 9:31 am
by Flipper
That's just the kind of false dichotomy that encourages academic laziness. Athletes don't need to be smart...they need to win. ...hell, if they're smart, they probably CAN'T win. That's pure nonsense...ask Curt Miller. You can be a good student and a good athlete..it takes work, but kids do it all over the country.

As others have pointed out, letting the academics slide was part of what put us behind the eight ball. We lost eight scholarships to APR. That's eight kids we couldn't sign. When you factor in the academic non performers that blew out and lead to the eight scholarship reduction...that's a tremendous opportunity cost to the program. Letting academics slide will kill you

Re: BGSU APR scores...looking sweet!!

Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 11:01 am
by h2oville rocket
unfalconbelievable wrote:
Apr goes up , wins go down! Kinda sad but true ... Let's not get too smart were not trying to win spelling bees on saturdays in the fall

I agree 100%.

Grades don't bring in money to the university but WINS do. If you have every student-athlete that receives a scholarship obtain a 4.0, but the teams are sub 500. Two things will happen, coach will be fired and the alumni, fans and town will be unhappy.

Whereas if you win consistently two things will happen- the coach will remain and many alumni, fans and much of the town will be unhappy. The perfect season is one in which the team goes undefeated, wins a national championship and the coach gets fired.

Re: BGSU APR scores...looking sweet!!

Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 3:29 pm
by able1
unfalconbelievable wrote:
Apr goes up , wins go down! Kinda sad but true ... Let's not get too smart were not trying to win spelling bees on saturdays in the fall

I agree 100%.

Grades don't bring in money to the university but WINS do. If you have every student-athlete that receives a scholarship obtain a 4.0, but the teams are sub 500. Two things will happen, coach will be fired and the alumni, fans and town will be unhappy.
:roll: #-o [-( :vom: [-X ](*,)

Really? That line of thinking is just disturbing. Sure wins are important, but grades, moral character, and representing BGSU well > wins any day....and they're NOT mutually exclusive! Why should we accept sacrificing one for the other? Biggest cop out ever.

Re: BGSU APR scores...looking sweet!!

Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 6:52 pm
by 1987alum
h2oville rocket wrote:Whereas if you win consistently two things will happen- the coach will remain and many alumni, fans and much of the town will be unhappy. The perfect season is one in which the team goes undefeated, wins a national championship and the coach gets fired.
I almost spit out my drink when I read that last line. Well dome.

=D>

Re: BGSU APR scores...looking sweet!!

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 1:16 pm
by sportydude1818
Winning is the only thing that matters in college football! If BG goes 2 - 10 next year does clawson say hey but our APR is moving up?

Tyrone Willingham was fired at Notre Dame and the AD said " he and the players did everything right monday through friday but not on saturday.

Urban Myer had more players arrested during his time at Florida than any team I can remember and he is looked at as a saint because he won. Nobody cared !

Nobody cared what was going on at Ohio State the past 10 years because they were winning.

Yes you would like to have the best of both worlds but lets not fool ourselves into thinking that college football is about anything other than winning..

Re: BGSU APR scores...looking sweet!!

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 1:35 pm
by h2oville rocket
sportydude1818 wrote:Winning is the only thing that matters in college football! If BG goes 2 - 10 next year does clawson say hey but our APR is moving up?

Tyrone Willingham was fired at Notre Dame and the AD said " he and the players did everything right monday through friday but not on saturday.

Urban Myer had more players arrested during his time at Florida than any team I can remember and he is looked at as a saint because he won. Nobody cared !

Nobody cared what was going on at Ohio State the past 10 years because they were winning.

Yes you would like to have the best of both worlds but lets not fool ourselves into thinking that college football is about anything other than winning..

Wrong. In so many ways, wrong. How do you account for Duke having a team? Vanderbilt? U of Chicago with 29 losing seasons since 1969? These are schools who A) Do things right, B) lose with stunning regularity. No alumni screaming to bring in questionable kids, nobody giving trust fund babies even more money to play for Duke, none of that. Year after year they quietly take their beatings and move on. Yet they continue to play. Something to be said about the character that sports instills in people when you play and administer them correctly.