Alabama & SEC Graduation Success Rates
With Senior Day almost upon us, I though it might be appropriate to consider graduation rates for Crimson Tide football. It just so happens that earlier this week, the NCAA released it's Graduation Success Rate data. While this was met by the usual chorus of praise from the applicable panjandrums it's probably safe to say almost none of us paid much attention to it at the time.
It turns out the numbers are pretty interesting. The graduation rate for the four-class average - the cumulative tally of students entering college between the fall of one year and the fall four years later - for Alabama football has risen steadily over the past half-decade. In fact, as the Tuscaloosa News points out, the GSR numbers for both football and men’s basketball "are higher than the university’s overall graduation rate."
So it seems The Process most certainly does include academics. But then I got to thinking... how does this stack up against the other football programs in the conference? The answer is after the jump.
SEC Football Graduation Success Rates 2005-2009
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I'm guessing
that the low graduation rate from 05-06 is at least partly due to CNS running off a bad apple or two…
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Bear Bryant
um..
You do realize that CNS wasn’t on campus until 2007.
I misunderstood the graph
for some reason I thought it was the incoming year, not the outgoing year. Ah, assumptions…
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Bear Bryant
the methodology of the numbers...
is a little convoluted. you can follow the links back to the ncaa site to get the nitty gritty on how they draw them up. the main thing i was trying to depict was the five-year trend across the 12 SEC institutions.
i’m not completely confident in the NCAA numbers but the hope is, since the apples are apples all the way across, we can get an idea of how each program is progressing in comparison with the others.
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The only other school's rate...
…that really stands out to me is U…F’s….
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Nov 20, 2009 10:09 AM CST reply actions
Bobby Johnson...
…clearly only cares about winning. He’s running Vanderbilt into the toilet. Look how low the ‘08 numbers are! They do good = kids don’t graduate at Vanderbilt. The man is a sham!
by Nico2.0 on Nov 20, 2009 10:52 AM CST reply actions 1 recs
You guys are KILLIN' it this week
with all the great and informative posts. Me gusto mucho.
"You have to create 6 seconds of hell each play..."
Coach Nick Saban
Donde esta el bano?
MATRIX: Bennett, I thought you were--
BENNETT: Dead? You thought wrong. Ever since you had me thrown out of the unit, I've been waiting to pay you back. Do you know what today is, Matrix? Payday.
also, i just updated the graph...
turns out i mis-entered tennessee’s 2009 number.
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As much as...
…I like Dabo, Clemson should never, ever be considered for the SEC…we’ve got enough ugly orange pee to wade through every year.
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Nov 20, 2009 7:38 PM CST up reply actions
we’ve got enough ugly orange pee to wade through every year.
quoted for truth
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