define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); pete carroll – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:11:24 +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 Releases Coaches’ Academic Progress Rating Database http://rushthecourt.net/2010/08/06/ncaa-releases-coaches-academic-progress-rating-database/ http://rushthecourt.net/2010/08/06/ncaa-releases-coaches-academic-progress-rating-database/#respond Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:44:20 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=23181

The NCAA unleashed the database for academic progress ratings (APRs) for coaches in six different sports on Thursday.  While it’s fun to plug in coaches from a few other sports — anyone surprised by Pete Carroll’s 971, 24 points higher than the college football average in 2008-09, and six-for-six over 925? — the most fun for us comes from plugging in the names of college basketball coaches and seeing how they did each year.

First, though, just a little background.  The NCAA uses this little metric to determine how a team’s athletes are moving toward the ultimate [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2010/08/06/ncaa-releases-coaches-academic-progress-rating-database/feed/ 0 USC Hoops Should Be Thanking Gerrity, Johnson, and Lewis http://rushthecourt.net/2010/06/10/usc-hoops-should-be-thanking-gerrity-johnson-and-lewis/ http://rushthecourt.net/2010/06/10/usc-hoops-should-be-thanking-gerrity-johnson-and-lewis/#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:36:54 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=21998

USC received the official response from the NCAA regarding penalties to the men’s basketball team.  Jeff Goodman from FoxSports.com posted a good succinct rundown of USC’s self-imposed penalties plus what the NCAA added today.  The penalties as described below are paraphrased from his article, but you should check out his article by clicking the link above.

Was it worth it?

Here is how USC stuck it to itself in the middle of last season:

They ditched one scholarship from last year and this upcoming season, They reduced by one the number of coaches who could hit [...]]]>
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