(04-28-2014 11:25 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  

(04-28-2014 08:33 AM)MinerInWisconsin Wrote:  If the info is accurate and now published for UNT, what are the other conference APR scores? You can't be named best when only 1 score has been published, can you? If it's known that UNT has the best APR in conference, the others all have to be known as well, so what are they?

Oh, and congrats to UNT!

APR is a different issue than GPA. APR quantifies graduation rates and being on path to graduate. You can have a good GPA and not graduate, so they are mutually exclusive elements though it's obvious there is some degree of correlation between graduating and having a good enough GPA to get there. Also, one other caveat. APR includes an aggregate average of the prior four years whereas GPA is typically referring to a single semester.

I believe Rice and Middle Tennessee have the best APR rates in the league though I heard MT's dropped a bit this past year. Rice and MT historically have been in or around the top 10 to 20 in the nation.

Right you are and thanks for getting my attention. I knew that APR and GPA were not the same thing but I've been reading about UNLV and Idaho being banned from bowls this coming season due to low APR and I guess I was not paying attention. Apparently I need a nap.

We should form a union and demand naps at work. Kindergarten ruined me.

(04-28-2014 11:35 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  BTW, good job UNT (as long as they're not taking basket-weaving classes like at some unnamed schools in the SEC)! We need more student in the "student-athlete" equation.

Or in a a couple of the SBC teams' case, online basket-weaving