define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); ron jirsa – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:13:03 +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 Gary Williams Hates Graduation http://rushthecourt.net/2007/10/04/gary-williams-hates-graduation/ http://rushthecourt.net/2007/10/04/gary-williams-hates-graduation/#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:59:53 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/2007/10/04/gary-williams-hates-graduation/

Yesterday the NCAA released its latest graduation rate figures for all D1 athletes who entered school in the classes of 1997-2000. Unlike the federally-mandated graduation rate, the GSR (Graduate Success Rate) is more realistic for athletes – it gives each player six years to complete his degree and it does not count transfer students against a school (reflecting the reality of athlete puddle-jumping for playing time in D1).

Here are the NCAA’s key findings:

The latest GSR figures show that 77 percent of student-athletes who began college from 1997-2000 graduated within six years. That four-year graduation rate is [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2007/10/04/gary-williams-hates-graduation/feed/ 2