Michigan APR - Football continues to rise under Hoke
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The 4 year average continues to rise under Hoke, still at bottom of B1G for 4 year average though. MBB near perfect.
Next year, that 897 gets replaced, so we shouldn't have to worry about APR anymore.
I think alot of this has to do with the type of player he recruits. Alot of the recruits seem to be higher character, have their head on straight and are not what I would call "thuggish" type players.
Just curious who you consider the "thugs" that RR recruited? Keep in mind these "thugs" would have had to be part of the team in order to have an effect on the APR. Okay go!
Devil's advocate? I'd say Cissoko. Can't remember if he's a Carr player, though. You did put up a red herring, though. Nowhere in his post did he say that RR recruited thugs. He may have incidentally insinuated it, but not directly.
Directly? No. But even the OSU brainiac that put together the "descending order" sign on Brian's post knows who he was referring to.
but before giving him too much credit, you might consider the latest year recorded still included players recruited by Lloyd. Hoke's recruits are a relatively small part of it.
Recruiting is just part of it though. Hoke's staff has to keep tabs on the players' academic progress and make sure they're not falling behind. It looks like the staff is doing a good job there.
Maybe the APR is rising because there aren't people within the program telling kids to transfer.
Our awful APR under Rich Rod isn't just due to transfers. To be that low, you have to have guys leaving the program while in poor academic standing. Someone responsible for checking on their progress dropped the ball.
If you replace the 897 with another 981 (2011-2012 single year score), the 4 year average jumps to about 972 (give or take), which would put Michigan around 4th overall. Drop off the lower scores from 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 and replace with similar scores in the 980s and you're looking at a score in the top quartile of the conference. That's not bad.
Here is how the whole of the Big Ten fared in the last reporting period:
SCHOOL | 4-YR. AVG. |
Northwestern | 996 |
Wisconsin | 985 |
OSU | 982 |
Nebraska | 972 |
Indiana | 963 |
Penn State | 961 |
Iowa | 961 |
Illinois | 960 |
MSU | 955 |
Minnesota | 955 |
Purdue | 953 |
Michigan | 951 |
..and here is Michigan's rolling average over the periods which are listed in the NCAA database. From 2009-2010 to this most recent period, it has moved 2.5%, which I believe is quite a good jump considering how the APR is calculated:
Academic Year | Michigan |
2004 - 2005 | 952 |
2005 - 2006 | 958 |
2006 - 2007 | 951 |
2007 - 2008 | 947 |
2008 - 2009 | 936 |
2009 - 2010 | 928 |
2010 - 2011 | 943 |
2011 - 2012 | 951 |
See, Northwestern ain't so s-m-r-t, I mean s-m-a-r-t
Lookin' good
December 29th, 2013 at 1:00 PM ^