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Graduation Success Rate statistics released by NCAA - miserable showing

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YSUfan21:

--- Quote from: YsuPride on October 26, 2011, 07:15:32 AM ---Another reason to get rid of Strollo.

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it aint on strollo
it was bad long before him

Wick250:
The men and women who play on our athletic teams for four years tend to be successful students who do graduate.  The problems come from those recruits who disappear after a year or two.  These figures suggest that bad grades rather than lack of playing time hastened their departure.  This is not really shocking.  We know that over half of Slocum's recruits leave.  Turnover under Heacock was significant.  We can only hope that the situation will change under Wolford.  These numbers do tell us that the majority of our Olympic coaches are losing too many of their players, and those players are struggling in the classroom.  That is totally unacceptable, especially since most of our Olympic programs cannot win.  If you are going to lose anyway, give the freakin' scholarship to a good student!

IAA Fan:

--- Quote from: Wick250 on October 26, 2011, 08:53:45 PM ---The men and women who play on our athletic teams for four years tend to be successful students who do graduate.  The problems come from those recruits who disappear after a year or two.  These figures suggest that bad grades rather than lack of playing time hastened their departure.  This is not really shocking.  We know that over half of Slocum's recruits leave.  Turnover under Heacock was significant.  We can only hope that the situation will change under Wolford.  These numbers do tell us that the majority of our Olympic coaches are losing too many of their players, and those players are struggling in the classroom.  That is totally unacceptable, especially since most of our Olympic programs cannot win.  If you are going to lose anyway, give the freakin' scholarship to a good student!

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I like the first part, but do not agree on the Olympic sports comment. They have very high marks. The football team alone fails to graduate more each year than every Olympic athlete combined, followed by baseball, then basketball. We have had high baseball success, we lost 23 players to some form of professional organization in the past 4-years ..a only a few of those, at best, graduated. Also, the huge loss in football players when coach W took over will truly hurt our numbers, as it does for any college football program that changes staff. It is not very often a team sees such a dismantling. Actually I think you will find that coach H did very well in recruiting some brains. Remember, high academic players tend to begin on academic scholarships, and generally are not quite good enough players to be given athletic scholarships. So they do not stay for 4-years.

Pizza:
Since when are we Harvard all of a sudden?

YSU is a good school. A good school. It's up to the kids.

The same text books used at YSU are issued to kids at Yale and Cornell. It's up to the kids.

And if you want a winning football program, you have to "reach" at this level.

YSU is not a "destination location" for scholar athletes. Notre Dame, Stanford, Vanderbilt and Northwestern has that pretty well sowed up.

pennyguin1:
Pizza-Yes, it is the students responsibility to study, go to class, and keep their grades up.

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