KSU leads Big 12 in graduation rate for athletes

[mikeyis4dcats.]

Kansas State is ranked first among Big 12 schools for all student-athletes in the 2001-02 class, according to the Federal Graduation Rate.
The NCAA announced the latest graduation rate data based upon 2008 reports.

K-State had 100 percent graduation rates for men's basketball, men's track and field, women's basketball, women's track and field and men's golf. K-State football was listed as No. 1 with a 67 percent graduation rate.

K-State also led the Big 12 in 2007 with a 75 percent graduation rate for all student-athletes and was No. 1 in the conference in football at 87 percent.


http://cjonline.com/stories/101608/cat_344730950.shtml

[Skip Towne]

So Beasly graduated in one year?

[Saulbadguy]

Thanks for the apartment ad. I've been looking!

[Lzen]

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Originally Posted by Skip Towne

So Beasly graduated in one year?

Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats.

Kansas State is ranked first among Big 12 schools for all student-athletes in the 2001-02 class, according to the Federal Graduation Rate.

[Skip Towne]

Originally Posted by Lzen

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You left out the part about "based on 2008 reports"

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by Skip Towne

You left out the part about "based on 2008 reports"

I notice that whenever these graduation rates things come out, it is always based on several years in the past. Not sure why they do that. Also, it is not very telling when they don't take into account successful programs that have players leave early for the pros.

[mikeyis4dcats.]

Originally Posted by Lzen

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heh, didn't even notice that....doesn't surprise me, CJOnline makes typos all the time.

[hawkchief]

Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats.

heh, didn't even notice that....doesn't surprise me, CJOnline makes typos all the time.

Wow, referencing 8 year-old community college-level graduation rates used to bolster up a flailing collegiate sports program. Doesn't get much more desperate than that.

[mikeyis4dcats.]

Originally Posted by hawkchief

Wow, referencing 8 year-old community college-level graduation rates used to bolster up a flailing collegiate sports program. Doesn't get much more desperate than that.

somebody's jealous that their 8 year old rates aren't as good.

as far as KSU being community-college level, KSU still leads the nation in several prestigious awards (Rhodes Scholars, etc.) and many, many of our programs are revered amongst industry and score higher than corresponding programs at KU.

All that dick-sucking is really making you a sourpuss HawkChief...

[hawkchief]

Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats.

somebody's jealous that their 8 year old rates aren't as good.

as far as KSU being community-college level, KSU still leads the nation in several prestigious awards (Rhodes Scholars, etc.) and many, many of our programs are revered amongst industry and score higher than corresponding programs at KU.

All that dick-sucking is really making you a sourpuss HawkChief...

mikey,

While you cut out and pin up that 8 year-old good-grades article you dug up, on your purple velour wallpaper, I think I'll go and make sure my freshly-minted 2008 NCAA Basketball (Men's) Championship memorabilia is well situated on my mantle, right next to the other 4 KU National Championship stuff I have.

Yea, it looks real nice!

Thanks for playing though.

[Demonpenz]

KSU... where D's get you degree's

[Lzen]

College athletes are earning degrees at record rates, according to an NCAA report released Tuesday, and at higher percentages than the overall student body.

New NCAA figures show that 79 percent of all student-athletes who began school in the fall of 2001 and 78 percent who entered college between 1998 and 2001 earned degrees within six years. Both are one-point increases over last year’ and all-time highs.

But there are still issues for those who play men’s basketball, football and baseball ? sports that continue to lag behind student athletes in other sports.

The newest NCAA graduation statistics are significantly higher than statistics compiled by the federal government, which showed 64 percent of student-athletes who started college from 1998 to 2001 graduated in six years. Federal statistics do not include transfer students’ performances (if an athlete enrolls at one school, then transfers to another, neither school receives credit when that athlete graduates but the original school is penalized statistically).

The numbers can be affected by players who turn pro before their senior seasons.

Six schools graduated 100 percent of their student-athletes for the one-year class of 2001-02, according to the report. They were Alcorn State, Campbell, Canisius, Colgate, Manhattan and Valparaiso.

During that same four-year enrollment period, 75 men’s basketball teams failed to graduate half their athletes (including Missouri at 36 percent). A dozen women’s basketball programs had less than 50 percent (including Kansas, 42 percent).

Other notable findings were:

?Nearly half of the Big 12 men’s basketball teams failed to reach 50 percent: Baylor, Colorado, Missouri, Texas and Texas A&M.

?Defending national football champion LSU had a grad rate of 54 percent; defending men’s basketball champ Kansas came in at 64 percent.

Richard Lapchick, who leads the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in sports, says the report is “really good news for college sports.”

Percentage of players who graduate from each sport

Kansas
Football 53
Basketball 64
Women’s Basketball 42
Women’s Volleyball 89

Kansas State
FB 67
BB 67
WBB 83
WVB 100

Missouri
FB 59
BB 36
WBB 83
WVB 67
KC Star

[triple]

some would say they don't really have 'athletes'

[mikeyis4dcats.]

Originally Posted by triple

some would say they don't really have 'athletes'

hey, leave our defense out of this! they didn't hurt anyone!

[alanm]

I believe those schools that are below 70 are the teams in danger of losing scholarships.