The_Z_Man":3bzh2fet said:
In any case, I don't think JS actually believes what he just said. He's just quacking and trolling. I can understand, given the way some Husky fans around here talk.
Well, i was trolling in making fun of the uniforms and saying a player would be an idiot to go to UW, but Actually I was being 100% genuine with what I said about not caring at all about this. As long as they're academically eligible, I dont care at all about how they're doing in the classroom.
And after reading up on APR and how its actually calculated I care even less about it. It has nothing to do with getting good grades. Its all about keeping athletes on campus for 4 years. So if a school sends a guy to the NFL after three seasons to make millions of dollars they get dinged on the APR.
Here's how they come up with it:
Each student-athlete receiving athletically related financial aid earns one point for staying in school and one point for being academically eligible.
A team’s total points are divided by points possible and then multiplied by 1,000 to equal the team’s Academic Progress Rate.
http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/res ... -explained
So it has nothing to do with getting A's, or doing well in school, you just have to stay academically eligible (which they always do, i cant remember the last time a duck, or any pac 12 athlete for that matter, was academically ineligible) and stay for 4 years. Ducks have had a lot of attrition lately, a lot of transfers due to coaching change or guys being buried on the depth chart, a few guys medically retiring and leaving school, a few getting kicked off the team for disciplinary reasons and leaving school, so those all bring down their APR and have absolutely nothing to do with how they're doing in the classroom.
So in the next years ratings UW will get dinged for Camilo Eiffler even though as far as I know he's doing fine in the classroom, and will continue his education at another university. And they will get dinged for Vita Vea (unless he redshirted and already graduated, i dont know if he did). Does that mean they're doing a less great job academically? No. Its meaningless.
