APR report released: Michigan BB (and others) honored
The APR Public Recognition Awards were released today. Michigan Basketball (both men and women) were on it, as were Men's gymnastics and Women's tennis. That means that these four teams were in the top 10% of their sport's Academic Progress scores. UM news release here: http://www.mgoblue.com/genrel/060513aab.html
As for football, we'll see where we rank when full data is released on the 11th, but we're obviously not in the top 10%. Four Big 10 teams made it in football: Northwestern, Ohio State, Wisconsin and Rutgers. ESPN has a little more on it here: http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/77947/three-b1g-teams-recogniz…
I'm surprised given all the transfers. Good to hear though!
honor roll? They signed 5 classes of guys in 4 years! Those people went somewhere. My only guess is their high percentage of medicals that don't count.
I have a feeling that it's really easy for a Bama football player to get an A in any class he takes, especially when signing his name on a football is 95% of his grade.
I think the data stopped before the transfers. They won't show up until next year's report, when Men's BB will probably not be in the top 10%.
I don't know if there is a way to save the search parameters, but if nothing else, here is the link to the NCAA's search engine for APR Recognition Awards (LINK).
Among the regulars for such recognition from Michigan in the past decade or so are men's golf (six times), women's tennis (eight times), women's golf (four times) and women's basketball (four times). Men's golf has been recognized six times and baseball three times.
I'm happy for the basketball team and all, but mostly I'm just glad we don't have to worry about this anymore.
they must give grades for regular breathing if they have made that list for football.
There was a question about this tonight at the coach's midwest tour in Chicago. IIRC, Michigan is at 59%, tied for 7th in the Big 10. The question for Dave Brandon was, what can Michigan learn from Northwestern and Notre Dame (both of whom are 99%? Is that correct?) Brandon's answer was: talk to the hand. Really, he said, ask me again in 4 years (since the numbers are a 4 year rolling average, and were largely brought down by guys long since gone.) Brandon was basically finding a polite way to blame the low scores on the previous regime.