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No. 1 Among Top 25 in Academic Progress Rate COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio State football program has the No. 1 Academic Progress Rate (APR) multi-year score in the nation among the Top 25 teams in the final 2010 USA Today/ESPN Football Coaches Poll. The APR provides a real-time look at a team's academic success each semester by tracking the academic progress of each student-athlete on scholarship.
The Buckeyes, who had the No. 1 APR score among the Top 15 teams at the conclusion of the 2009 football season, had a multi-year APR score of 985 to out-perform the rest of the Top 5 that included Boise State (981), Stanford (977), TCU (972) and Central Florida (971). Rankings research was compiled by the NCAA and USA Today and appeared in the May 25, 2011 issue of USA Today.
The APR accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation and provides a measure of each team's academic performance. The most recent APR scores are multi-year rates based on the scores from the 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10 academic years.
Ohio State football was one of five Ohio State programs that were honored last month with a public recognition award by the NCAA, with the others being baseball, men's gymnastics, men's tennis and women's tennis. The public recognition awards are given each year to teams scoring in the Top 10 percent in each sport, based on their most recent multi-year APRs. APR Scores of Top 25 Programs (Ranking in final 2010 USA Today/ESPN Football Coaches Poll) 1. Ohio State (5) - 985 2. Boise State (7) - 981 3. Stanford (4) - 977 4. TCU (2) - 972 5. Central Florida (20) - 971 6. Missouri (18) - 967 Wisconsin (8) - 967 8. LSU (8) - 966 9. Alabama (11) - 963 10. Oklahoma (6) - 960 11. Nebraska (19) - 958 12. Utah (23) - 956 13. Virginia Tech (15) - 955 14. South Carolina (22) - 954 15. Mississippi State (17) - 952 16. Nevada (13) - 943 17. Oklahoma State (10) - 942 18. Oregon (3) - 941 19. Auburn (1) - 940 Texas A&M (21) - 940 21. Michigan State (14) - 938 22. Arkansas (12) - 937 23. Florida State (16) - 932 24. North Carolina State (25) - 929 25. Maryland (24) - 922 link for haters as well as lovers and the haters know where they can shove it
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I'm glad to see it, but I wonder if this takes into account the type of classes the football players are taking.
Wasn't it Andy Katzenmoyer a while back that had to take classes like AIDS Awareness and golf?
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Yeah... some of your "progressed" athletes are complete idiots. It's not not even hating when you say that its just a fact
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probably not caring what they graduate in just that they graduate. but, at least that portion is being brought up now. progress happens in steps.
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I'm glad to see it, but I wonder if this takes into account the type of classes the football players are taking.
Wasn't it Andy Katzenmoyer a while back that had to take classes like AIDS Awareness and golf?
FYI, that AIDS awareness class was not as easy as it sounds on the surface. I took it. If he had the same instructor I had, it was extremely scientific/detailed about what that disease does to the body. I'm not very scientific myself, so I struggled with some of the material but it was SOOOOO fascinating.
As a side note to this course: our instructor brought in people that were HIV positive. One guy was SO damned angry about getting this. He was obviously one of the people who believed that AIDS was a disease only for gay people and that it was to punish the gays for their lifestyle. He kept saying "this is a disease for gays, not straight guys like me" It was a very interesting day in class that day. It was that guy (he had a female partner pass HIV to him), a gay guy and 2 woman (one infected by sharing needles and the other infected by a partner cheating on her).
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That's probably why Katzenmoyer was failing it.
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Ohio State over Stanford in academics. Mmmm, OK.
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Ohio State over Stanford in academics. Mmmm, OK.
it only says that OSU football players graduated a higher percentage of it's players and a few factors like that.
no correlation between university academic prestige and these rankings (see Maryland much lower than MissSt for instance)
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Of course the NCAA doesn't take academic progress into account. If they did, they would have realized that praising Jim Tressel for his positive influence on academics is more important than punishing him for protecting his players.
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I've never seen any football players taking classes such as physics or calculus. Well, Krenzel was the exception with his molecular genetics. I keep wanting to have one of my classes but it never happens. You think that maybe they would be in spanish or something, but nope.
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I keep wanting to have one of my classes but it never happens.
You want to have one of your classes do what?
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Oh my bad, long day,lol. I keep wanting to have one of the football players be in my classes because it would be cool, but it hasn't happened yet.
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Of course the NCAA doesn't take academic progress into account. If they did, they would have realized that praising Jim Tressel for his positive influence on academics is more important than punishing him for protecting his players.
The stupidity of it all.......
Wow, you are so far and away homer it's scary.
Did Tressel's players get good grades? Looks like it. Were they mostly taking basic classes? Probably, like most schools.
And Tressel wasn't protecting his players, he was covering is own *** with hopes of a National Championship.
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Nice. It wasn't THAT long ago when, if you had a pulse and the money to pay for it, you could get into Ohio State. OSU has come a long way and that really isn't the case any more. Nice to see similar improvements among the scholarship athletes. 
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Of course the NCAA doesn't take academic progress into account.
Neither does Ohio State really... if Tressel was first on that list of academics but was winning 6 games a year, they would have fired him a long time ago.
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If they did, they would have realized that praising Jim Tressel for his positive influence on academics is more important than punishing him for protecting his players.
So how much "good" does a person have to do in order to have the authorities overlook the fact that you are breaking a bunch of rules?
And what exactly were the NCAA punishments? Did they make his players sit out last years bowl game? Did they take away a bunch of scholarships? Did they take away televised games? Did they force him to resign?
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Oh my bad, long day,lol. I keep wanting to have one of the football players be in my classes because it would be cool, but it hasn't happened yet.
I knew what ya meant, just couldn't resist yankin' your chain..... 
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I knew what ya meant, just couldn't resist yankin' your chain.....
I think you meant to put this in the Weiner thread...
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Oh my bad, long day,lol. I keep wanting to have one of the football players be in my classes because it would be cool, but it hasn't happened yet.
It's only cool for the first couple of days. Che Bryant was dumb as a box of rocks. We took a Japanese Culture/History class together, he was constantly trying to cheat off me (or one of the other people around us) and he still FAILED the class.
Pepe Pearson was cool though. I think he just dug that in class on Mondays, I would actually talk about the game with him and not try to ask him about the other players or try to score tix off of him or something like that.
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