define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); bentley – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:34:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 http://rushthecourt.net http://rushthecourt.net/wp-content/mbp-favicon/RTC.jpg Rush The Court NCAA D1 Athlademic Ratings http://rushthecourt.net/2007/08/30/ncaa-d1-athlademic-ratings/ http://rushthecourt.net/2007/08/30/ncaa-d1-athlademic-ratings/#comments Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:31:00 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/2007/08/30/ncaa-d1-athlademic-ratings/

We came across this table last week, but haven’t had time to properly analyze it until today.  An organization called the National Collegiate Scouting Assn. (NCSA) evaluated how schools are doing in their totality by ranking them in the classroom and on the fields of play, using the US News academic and Sears Cup athletic rankings as their evaluative criteria. 

If they’d just stopped there, we’d have no problem with their rankings.  However, they also felt a need to add a third criterion – the NCAA’s school graduation rates for student-athletes, which have been long derided as archaic, inconsistent and generally not useful as a tool for determining how [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2007/08/30/ncaa-d1-athlademic-ratings/feed/ 3