The Academic Performance Tournament

[DWKB]

What a farce, huh? Such a dirty program winning this and all

For the fifth consecutive year, Inside Higher Ed presents its Academic Performance Tournament – a unique look at what the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament would look like if teams advanced based solely on their outcomes in the classroom.

The winners were determined using the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate, a nationally comparable score that gives points to teams whose players stay in good academic standing and remain enrolled from semester to semester. When teams had the same Academic Progress Rates, the tie was broken using the NCAA’s Graduation Success Rate – which, unlike the federal rate, considers transfers and does not punish teams whose athletes leave college before graduation if they leave in good academic standing.

This method of picking winners has yielded some unassuming champions in the past. Our first three winners, for example, were Bucknell, Holy Cross and Davidson. Last year, however, perennial favorite North Carolina won our tournament and eventually went on to win the real deal.

Though our bracket does have plenty of upsets – No. 14 Ohio University beating No. 3 Georgetown, No. 15 University of North Texas besting No. 2 Kansas State, and No. 14 University of Montana topping No. 3 New Mexico – for the second straight year a No. 1 seed and a perennial favorite is our champion.

The Jayhawks' most recent APR is 1,000, the highest score possible.

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[Russ Smith]

The problem with the APR tourney is that most teams can't even field 5 players let alone a full roster. Kansas wins the tourney with only 5 players, Collins, Aldrich, Teahan, Morningstar and Reed, they're the only players on the current team who are counted in this "tournament" because it covers 04-08 not the current team.

I think a far more exciting tournament using the same years (04-08) would be
the all kids whose highschool or AAU coaches were paid cash to speak at a college summer camp of a college that just happened to be recruiting them tournament. For example in 2005 a study of this was done and found there were 6 such kids on Kansas' roster CJ Giles, Rodrick Stewart(Same coach), Sherron Collins, Sasha Kaun, Julian Vaughn and Darrell Arthur. For Collins both his HS and AAU coach(also Wright's AAU coach) were paid to speak. For Arthur there were THREE coaches, his HS coach, and 2 AAU coaches who were paid to speak at the Kansas Summer Camp.


This year that would include Daniel Orton whose father and brother were both paid by Kentucky to speak at summer camps. Of course to be fair to UK, Orton's dad was also paid to speak at Kansas and Oklahoma State. ANd to be fair to KU and OSU, they only paid orton's dad once, UK paid him to speak THREE times. And Orton's dad also said his son, Terrence Crawford, was offered a job by both UK(Gillispie not Calipari) and OSU but said he couldn't confirm it until it actually happened. Crawford played at OSU.

The all learning disabled tourney would be exciting too, Texas would probably win this year since USC is on probation.

 

[DWKB]

Ha, all I gotta do is set out a bowl of my cheerios, walk away, and wait.


Like clockwork you'll come along to gleefully piss in them.

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[Russ Smith]

Well the problem with the APR is it doesn't really measure what they wanted it to measure. It's supposed to measure academic progress to a degree but what it actually measures is the ability of a school to keep players eligible while at the school, and nothing more. Texas next year will have 4 players on their roster(assuming nobody goes pro unexpectedly) who were declared Learning Disabled in order to qualify for college. It also helps you stay eligible in college because you can take all tests untimed and other special advantages. Sure it's possible 1/3 of their roster is actually LD but it's suspicious how the LD kids are always really good players not the 13th man on the roster? But Texas in this years tourney has a better than average APR, if all you do is look at that, you think Texas basketball is good academically and not a school that has lowered its requirements to improve its team.

USC was the first Pac 10 school to get hit by APR in basketball, they lost 2 scholarships when Gabe Pruitt and Lod Stewart left while ineligible. But because of the silly wording in the rule USC was allowed to take the 2 scholarship hit during a season that they started with only 10 scholarship players(due to losses to NBA and transfers). So in a year where they were not going to use all 13 rides, the NCAA allowed them to count it as a "punishment" of forfeiting 2 rides. It was preposterous, the penalty didn't hurt them at all they were going to be 3 rides short anyways. All it did was stop them from giving the rides to walkons as often happens. Here's how farcical the APR for Kansas in those years was, one of the guys on that roster during that time was Arthur.

The paid to speak at summer camp stuff is complete nonsense, the Big 12 is the conference that uses it the most and it of course it is now on the docket for the NCAA to make a rule to stop it. When that 2005 stuff came out 8 of the teams in the Big 12 had paid coaches of prospective recruits, does anybody really think that the head coach at Crane HS in Chicago Illinois is the best coach Kansas could find to speak? The claim is since Self was at Illinois before he had a good rapport with the coach, I'm sure it was unrelated to Julian Wright and Sherron Collins. I'm sure they would have paid him to speak even if Collins was a debate whiz and not a basketball prodigy.

Orton his year the dad was paid by 4 schools to appear at camps, 3 in the Big 12, and the 4th was UK then coached by Gillispie who of course was in the Big 12 before he got the UK job. They aren't the only ones who do it but they do it more than anybody else(the Big 12) and Kansas was the worst offender in the Big 12 until several stories publicized what was going on and they had to be less obvious. The money isn't public but that story said sources indicated it was between $500 and $1000 per camp standard and that Orton's dad had made as much as $7500 since UK paid him to speak 3 times in one year. According to ESPN Orton made $4800 for 16 speaking engagements from Kentucky alone(more than one year), but most people think that number is low. They paid his other son 9 times during the recruitment of Orton. As Jeff Goodman wrote at the time make no mistake they're paying him because his son is good and they want his son, everyone knows that but until the NCAA specifically bans it some coaches are going to continue to do it trying to gain an advantage. The other reason they did it with Orton is by hiring the father to work at the camp, the NCAA rules allow the son to play at the camp for free, which counts as an unofficial visit. Unofficial visits by rule have to be totally paid for by the recruit, but if his dad is a paid employee of the camp, that rule is waived. Which is why Orton was paid to be at UK, KU, Ok State etc during recruitment.

It's not just me pointing this out, guys like Mike Montgomery, Tom Izzo and Bob Knight have been complaining for years about the practice at the summer camps, but what do they know?

 

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[PoolBoy]

looks like Kansas forgot their calculator against Northern Iowa.