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According to today's Columbus Dispatch,

"The NCAA yesterday released the first set of Academic Performance Ratings, which judge college sports programs on how many scholarship athletes are making academic progress and staying in school. These numbers, from 2003-04, are only informational, but teams could face penalties if they don't score 925 once more years are included. Overall scores include additional sports. How schools with Division I-A football programs fared:"

Here are the scores from the MAC-- from left to right, they apply to football, men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball, and overall, which averages in other sports.

Akron:_________920___860___1000__951___953
Ball State:______959___981___1000__975___983
Bowling Green:__929___942___952___1000__956
Buffalo:_________854___885___852___900___917
Central Mich:____919___840___968___947___950
Eastern Mich:____897___965___953___913___937
Kent State:______936___885___1000__883___941
Marshall:________902___925___969___959___947
Miami:__________973___989___1000__993___986
N Illinois:________907___839___968___879___924
Ohio:____________919___941___947___950___951
Toledo:__________850___979___886___976___916
Western Mich:____896___950___938___984___944
AVERAGE:________912___913___956___947___946

And here's how the MAC's averages compare to other conferences':

ACC:____953___944___963___921___963
Big 10:__927___938___956___952___962
Big 12:__921___870___943___866___935
Big East:_959___929___957___952___966
C-USA:__928___922___958___927___951
MAC:____912___913___956___947___946
MWC:___908___919___961___871___937
Pac-10:__899___891___972___896___937
SEC:____932___884___940___895___940
SBC:____888___874___942___883___921
WAC:____913___867___941___974___930

(Please excuse all the underscores... it was the only way I could figure out how to get the spacing halfway decent lol...)

I'm sure there's a link somewhere where you can see all the scores, but the Dispatch's article and charts are subscription-only...

(Edited to correct the Dispatch's mistakes on overall scores.)

My first impression is that hockey must be killing us since the our overall average is well below the results listed for the four "major" sports. Well, I guess it doesn't have to be hockey. It could be volleyball or gymnastics or something, but hockey comes to mind first when thinking about the number of athletes involved.

The last column provides anomolies elsewhere. For instance, The Big Ten's overall average is higher than any of its individual scores. Fascinating stuff, though. Thumbs up for that contribution!

(Please excuse all the underscores... it was the only way I could figure out how to get the spacing halfway decent lol...)

Experiment with the (code) tag. You'll get monospaced text with that.

Every school in the country has a report in .pdf form at www.ncaa.org
You may want to go over there and check it out. Several teams at BGSU have perfect scores including volleyball, baseball, women's golf and tennis and some others I cannot remember at the moment.

By the way, the NCAA has already aknowledged that there are errors in these reports due to a lack of information. For instance one of the EMU teams was given a zero because the report was based on only one student athlete when the team has over twenty (I cannot remember the sport for sure, but it may have been track).

Here is the link to the BGSU report:
http://web1.ncaa.org/pdf/convert?pdfurl ... 04_apr.pdf

Ice hockey has a great score 988. However CC had a 750, proving you don't have to be bright to run a straight line. Soccer had an 844, I was hoping that extra academic acheivement was responsible for their record this year. OH well. glad to see so many other sports doing well.

PGY Tiercel wrote:Ice hockey has a great score 988. However CC had a 750, proving you don't have to be bright to run a straight line. Soccer had an 844, I was hoping that extra academic acheivement was responsible for their record this year. OH well. glad to see so many other sports doing well.

Assuming you mean the men -- perhaps this is a hint of why the last coach got the bums rush with little explanation?

Pure conjecture on my part.

Yeah, sorry about not clarifing that. Those were the men's scores I pulled.

PGY Tiercel wrote:However CC had a 750, proving you don't have to be bright to run a straight line.

That too could be an anomoly, because I am very bright but can't run a straight line to save my life!

Is that before or after the 12 pack?

BTW, guess where OSU's and Toledo's football teams rank on this list nationally. Well, OSU is 10th from the bottom and Toledo is 4th from last place. For those maybe interested in MTSU joining the MAC, they were ranked dead last among all NCAA football programs.

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BTW, guess where OSU's and Toledo's football teams rank on this list nationally. Well, OSU is 10th from the bottom and Toledo is 4th from last place.
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This is cause for celebration in Rocketville. "We're not last! We're not last!"

UK Peregrine wrote:BTW, guess where OSU's and Toledo's football teams rank on this list nationally. Well, OSU is 10th from the bottom and Toledo is 4th from last place. For those maybe interested in MTSU joining the MAC, they were ranked dead last among all NCAA football programs.

If that is the case at MTSU, then let em' go to CUSA or the Sun Belt. I don't care how good they are on the field, the MAC is already carrying enough academic dead weight with Toledo.

Just kidding Toledo fans. Well....sort of...

The Dispatch made one mistake on their report. They swapped the cumulative scores of Marshall and Miami. We had the 986 instead. We came in 2nd in the NCAA and Ball State came in 4th. This mistake has already been reported to the Dispatch.

Did one really think that Marshall would do that well? Your Toledo, our Marshall. We hate em.

Hmm, seems the Dispatch made a lot of mistakes, because while the ncaa website does have Miami at the 986, they have Marshall at 947, not 924, so it's not just a straight switch...

Ah well, I'll just switch 'em anyway. It is Marshall after all. Above post edited accordingly.