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SCar has lowest graduation rate of ANY bowl team
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SCar has lowest graduation rate of ANY bowl team


Dec 5, 2012, 6:29 AM

South Carolina Gamecocks rank last in annual bowl GSR study
Staff report Posted: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 12:19 a.m.
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Richard Shiro/AP South Carolina ranks at the bottom in Graduation Success Rate among the 70 bowl teams.
The University of South Carolina has made progress on the football field with back-to-back seasons of 11 wins (and counting), but the Gamecocks rank last in Graduation Success Rate for football players in a study of the 70 schools bound for bowl games.

GSR Rates
Graduation Success Rate for bowl-bound teams:

TOP 5

School Bowl game GSR

Notre Dame BCS title game 97

Northwestern Gator 97

Rice Armed Forces 93

Duke Belk 92

Rutgers Russell Athletic 91

BOTTOM 5

School Bowl Game GSR

South Carolina Outback 39

C. Michigan Little Caesars 47

Oklahoma Cotton 47

San Jose State Military 48

Arizona New Mexico 53

Washington Las Vegas 53



Note: GSR average for all 70 bowl-bound schools is 68.5

The annual report is compiled by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Overall, the GSR improved slightly from 68 to 68.5 percent for players in bowl-bound programs.


South Carolina has a 39 percent GSR, with Oklahoma and Central Michigan the next worst at 47 percent.

Clemson at 75 percent is above the 70-school average.

South Carolina also ranked last in GSR for African-American football players (32 percent). USC, however, has a solid Academic Progress Rate of 975 (the average is 955.5) and is credited with an overall student-athlete GSR of 73 percent (80.3 is the average).

Clemson has a 983 APR and an 84 percent overall student-athlete GSR.

It is important to note the data does not reflect on current players. The numbers are mined from NCAA statistics; the Institute reviewed six years of graduation rates from freshman classes that enrolled in 2006-2007 and then calculated a four-class average from 2003 to 2007.

Under rules of the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate, teams with a four-year APR of 925 or below face penalties including loss of scholarships. A new APR standard of 930 started to take effect for the 2012-13 academic year, though it won’t be fully in place until 2014-15.

Primary study author Richard Lapchick said he thinks the recent awareness raised by Education Secretary Arne Duncan and NAACP president Ben Jealous has been instrumental in pushing schools to make academic progress by athletes a priority.

“I think the threat of the loss of scholarships has great meaning for coaches today,” Lapchick said. “Even with football teams being so much bigger than in basketball, coaches want to protect those slots. They have become more engaged themselves and are getting the resources into academic affairs to get students who maybe weren’t as engaged in high school to be more successful at their universities.”

This year’s Institute numbers show a 20 percentage point gap between the graduation rate of white and African-American athletes, 82 percent to 62 percent. The numbers were 81 and 61 percent last year. But Lapchick is encouraged that the rate for African-American athletes has risen consistently recently.

As recently as 2009, those rates were 58 percent for African-American and 77 percent for white athletes.

“There are a few perspectives on that gap,” Lapchick said. “Graduation rates have significantly gone up annually a few points each year, and that’s the good news.”

The GSR includes students transferring into the institutions. The GSR also allows schools to subtract athletes who leave before graduation, as long as they would have been academically eligible to compete if they remained.

At the bowl-bound schools, 66 of 70, or 94 percent, had at least a 50 percent GSR for their football teams. That’s down from 97 percent in 2011, though Lapchick praised the high figure.

To see the full report, go to: http://www.tidesport.org/Grad%20Rates/2012_FBS_Bowl_Study.pdf

The Associated Press contributed to this story

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So that's what we hang our hat on when they say 4 years in a


Dec 5, 2012, 7:40 AM

row? Wow! That's comforting. I guess we do belong in the ACC if we are going to worry about academics on the football field. Maybe our players could wear their caps and gowns instead of helmets and uniforms.

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Re: SCar has lowest graduation rate of ANY bowl team


Dec 5, 2012, 8:09 AM

Get real. That article is not only using old numbers, it is using old numbers that have been a confirmed misprint.

This article shows the actual 6 year rates from students entering 2002-2005 (and thus would have graduated between 2004-2011)

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2012/10/25/ncaa-graduation-rates-notre-dame-sec-college-football/1656329/

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Re: SCar has lowest graduation rate of ANY bowl team


Dec 5, 2012, 8:20 AM

Scar is listed twice at two different numbers in that usa today article. Which score is accurate, the one at 12 or the one at 24?

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Re: SCar has lowest graduation rate of ANY bowl team


Dec 5, 2012, 8:22 AM

Who cares? I know people wo play for SC and they are intelligent! Lets stick to talking football instead of coming up with excuses! Go TIGERS!

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