New APR results released

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Here's a list of the 17 Division I-A football programs that were hit with scholarship sanctions. The typical limit is 85.

Akron: Limit of 80 next year
Buffalo: 83
Central Michigan: 83
FAU: 82
FIU: 82
Hawaii: 84
Idaho: 77
Kansas: 83
New Mexico State: 82
North Texas: 80
San Diego State: 79
San Jose State: 67
Temple: 81
Toledo: 79
UAB: 76
UNLV: 84
Washington State: 77


Here's a list of the 53 Division I basketball programs that were hit with sanctions. The typical scholarship limit is 13.

Arkansas State: Public notice
Cal State Northridge: Public notice
Cal State Sacramento: Limit of 12 next year
Centenary: 12
Central Connecticut State: 12
Chicago State: Public notice
Cleveland State: Public notice
College of Charleston: 12
Colorado: Public notice
Colorado State: 11
East Carolina: 11
Florida International: 12
Fresno State: 10
Georgia State: Public notice
Hampton: 12
Hawaii: 11
Idaho: 12
Illinois-Chicago: 12
Jacksonville State: 11
Kansas State: 12
Lamar: 11
Liberty: 11
Louisiana-Lafayette: Public notice
Louisiana Tech: 12
Manhattan: 12
Mercer: 12
Morehead State: Public notice
New Hampshire: 12
New Mexico: 12
New Mexico State: 12
Norfolk State: Public notice
North Texas: 12
Portland State: Public notice
Purdue: 12
Quinnipiac: 11
San Francisco: 12
San Jose State: 11
Seton Hall: 12
South Alabama: 12
South Carolina: 12
Southeastern Louisiana: Public notice
Southern Utah: 12
St. Bonaventure: Public notice
St. Peter's: 12
Tennessee: 12
Texas State: Public notice
UAB: 11
UC Santa Barbara: Public notice
UNC-Greensboro: 12
USC: 11
UTEP: 12
Western Illinois: Public notice
Wyoming: 12

The NCAA notified schools of their individual APR scores and potential penalties last fall. Some applied their scholarship penalty for the 2007 season.




Seventeen Division I-A football programs face penalties for failing to graduate enough players, the NCAA announced Tuesday with the release of its Academic Progress Rates.

Orange Bowl champion Kansas and Washington State were the only programs from "Big Six" conferences to face penalties. Other schools facing penalties for football were Akron, UAB, Buffalo, Central Michigan, Florida Atlantic, Florida International, Hawaii, Idaho, UNLV, New Mexico State, North Texas, San Diego State, San Jose State, Temple and Toledo.

The list of major programs facing penalties is longer in men's basketball. Colorado, Kansas State, Purdue, Seton Hall, South Carolina, USC and Tennessee were among the 53 Division I programs cited.

A total of 218 teams at 123 schools will be sanctioned for poor performance, NCAA president Myles Brand said. Another 712 teams were publicly recognized last month for APRs in the top 10 percent of each sport.

Every Division I sports team calculates its APR each academic year. The APR is based on the eligibility, retention and graduation of each student-athlete on scholarship. An APR of 925 equates to an NCAA Graduation Success Rate of about 60 percent.

The average APR for all Division I student-athletes is 961 ? 951 for males and 969 for females. This year marked the first time the average eligibility and retention rates both showed increases.

"Overall, there is much to be encouraged about with the latest data," Brand said. "When we started four years ago, baseball and football were in serious trouble. There has been great improvement in both of those sports.

"We are not out of the woods, however. There are individual institutions that have seen steady decline in APR over the last four years. The situation is dire for them."

Teams that score below 925 on the APR and have a student leave school academically ineligible can lose up to 10 percent of their scholarships. Teams also can be subject to penalties for poor academic performance over time.

The majority of basketball programs facing penalties recently had coaching changes. Coaching changes can be problematic for a school's APR, particularly with the transfers that can result.

No school faces penalties in more sports than Sacramento State, which was cited in baseball, football, men's basketball, men's golf, men's indoor track, men's outdoor track and women's tennis. The Hornets are a I-AA football program.

Schools facing penalties in six sports included UAB (football, men's basketball, men's golf, men's soccer, men's tennis, women's basketball), New Mexico State (baseball, football, men's basketball, men's tennis, women's tennis, women's outdoor track) and San Jose State (baseball, football, men's basketball, men's cross country, men's soccer, women's basketball).

The single-year APR has increased 12 points for baseball and 11 points for football since 2003-04, when the NCAA began collecting data on this issue. The APR for men's basketball declined each of the past two years before increasing four points this year.

This is the second year for "historical penalties." Second-year sanctions include restrictions on scholarships and practice time. Starting next year, teams that receive three consecutive years of historical penalties (below 900 APR) face the potential of restrictions on postseason competition in addition to scholarship and practice restrictions.

Every program posting an APR score below 925 is required to develop a specific academic improvement plan. Teams posting APR scores below 900 must submit their plans to the NCAA for review.

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The Howard University football team was one of 218 Division I programs sanctioned by the NCAA yesterday for failing to meet academic standards. The University of Maryland men's basketball team also failed to meet academic standards, but the program was not at risk for punishment because of a recently approved exemption.

The NCAA yesterday unveiled the latest batch of Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores, which measure how well a team returns academically eligible athletes semester to semester, as well as the sanctions imposed on underachievers. Maryland's men's basketball team had a four-year score of 906, which fell below the 925 cutoff score that equates roughly to a 60 percent graduation rate.

Maryland was not at risk to lose scholarships because its score was above 900 and the two players who had left school midway through the spring semester of 2007 -- Mike Jones and D.J. Strawberry -- had already exhausted their eligibility. Had Jones and Strawberry been underclassmen when they left school mid-semester to pursue professional careers, Maryland probably would have needed to apply for a waiver to avoid sanctions.

Anton Goff, Maryland's associate athletic director for academic support, said it is critical for Maryland to remain above the 900 threshold for the Terrapins to qualify for the exception. Because Maryland's score fell below the 925 cutoff, the school submitted an academic improvement plan, which included obtaining more information about the academic strengths and weaknesses of recruits and having players meet with learning specialists to concentrate on time management, study skills and test-taking strategies.

"After four years, if you are below 925, they want to make sure you are aware of it and you are trying to do something about it," Goff said. "With men's basketball, because the numbers are so small, a couple people could affect your score tremendously."

NCAA President Myles Brand said in a teleconference yesterday that the goal of the APR is to change academic behavior on campus, not merely to punish programs for poor performance. But Howard's football team will lose 2.91 scholarships because of an APR score of 916.

Kevin Lennon, the NCAA vice president for membership services, said teams would impose scholarship restrictions at the earliest possible time and within two seasons. When asked about a timetable to impose penalties, Howard Athletic Director Dwight Datcher said: "I was more interested in putting the right procedures in place so it won't happen again, more so than worrying about how we would divide it up. If we correct the problem, we don't have to worry about ever dividing it up again."

Datcher added he was disappointed with the penalty but said that the school is putting corrective measures in place that include "increased study halls, and it is all about paying a little more attention to detail -- what the kids are taking, what they are studying and providing support they need."

Among Bowl Championship Series football teams, only Kansas (two scholarships) and Washington State (eight) were punished. Among men's basketball programs from major conferences, seven teams -- Kansas State, Purdue, Seton Hall, Colorado, Southern California, South Carolina and Tennessee -- were punished. All will lose one scholarship except for Southern California, which will lose two, and Colorado, which received a public warning.

After few programs were punished last spring, NCAA officials had pointed to this year's announcement as the time when underachieving teams would feel the full brunt of the APR's impact because programs would no longer be spared because of small roster sizes. But several high-profile programs, including men's basketball at Ohio State and Maryland, were spared penalties despite poor scores because of waivers or exceptions.

"The number of teams receiving penalty was not as high as we had thought at this time last year," Brand said. "The reason is because of measurable signs of improvement."

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And with that said--here's a list of the BCS football schools and their APR's:


1-Stanford-986
2-Duke-977
2-Rutgers-977
4-Boston College-972
5-Miami (FL)-969
5-Notre Dame-969
5-Northwestern-969
8-California-967
9-Georgia -965
10-Wake Forest-964
10-Penn State-964
12-Florida -962
13-Vanderbilt-959
14-Syracuse-955
15-Florida State-954
16-Auburn -953
17-Virginia-951
17-Georgia Tech-951
17-Michigan -951
20-Clemson -950
20-Connecticut-950
20-Iowa-950
20-Indiana-950
24-Tennessee -948
24-USC -948
24-Washington-948
27-North Carolina-947
28-LSU -946
29-Pittsburgh-945
30-Wisconsin -944
30-Alabama-944
32-Maryland-943
32-Louisville-943
32-Kentucky-943
35-Ohio State -942
35-Oklahoma -942
35-Texas -942
38-North Carolina State-941
38-Nebraska-941
38-UCLA-941
41-Cincinnati -939
41-Missouri -939
41-Mississippi-939
44-Baylor-938
45-Arkansas-936
46-West Virginia -935
46-Kansas State-935
46-Oklahoma State-935
49-Arizona State -933
50-Texas A&M-932
51-Illinois -930
52-Virginia Tech -929
52-Colorado-929
54-Texas Tech -928
55-Minnesota-927
55-Iowa State-927
57-Michigan State-926
57-Oregon State -926
59-Mississippi State-924
60-South Carolina-921
60-Oregon -921
62-Purdue-920
63-Kansas -919
64-South Florida-917
65-Washington State-916
66-Arizona-902

Wild when you look at it like that.

I guess these #'s tell us that Miami's still Thug U and that it's a horrible/dangerous place to get an education...right everybody???