Information provided by Erik Brady, USA TODAY
If U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan had his way, a dozen of the teams in the men's NCAA basketball tournament would not be eligible to play in it, including top-seeded Kentucky.
The schools that have men's basketball teams with graduation rates of less than 40% are Arkansas-Pine Bluff (29%), Baylor (36%), California (20%), Clemson (37%), Georgia Tech (38%), Kentucky (31%), Louisville (38%), Maryland (8%), Missouri (36%), New Mexico State (36%), Tennessee (30%) and Washington (29%).
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I totally agree with Duncan. Why should atheletes have different standards for graduation from everyone else. Could it be money , greed, and prestige again?
What about the individual students who have good grades? Shouldn’t those students be able to play? Why should everyone be lumped together? Don't punish the whole team.
I'm sorry you misunderstood me. I never meant the entire team just the failing atheletes.
Players, in any sport, at any level, that are not passing all classes should not permitted to play. Education must always take priority.
This title is very misleading. Arne Duncan was talking about this in the backdrop of the NCAA March Madness tournament. He was speaking in terms of College Athletes. HS athletes do not have different standards than anyone else and most of the college athletes that go to these universities are going specifically for the sports program. I could care less if these student athletes graduate or not, they chose to go there for athletics.
"I'm sorry you misunderstood me. I never meant the entire team just the failing atheletes."
The subject of this article is GRADUATION RATE, not currently-failing students. This means that previous teams would cause current teams to suffer, since it is only previous teams that have a graduation rate on record. This whole thing is stupid, if the wording is correct.
Big time schools know exactly what they are doing. They say they are institutions of higher learning,but they are also running minor league teams for the NBA.
If a team is banned, players families their agents etc. will target schools that are not getting banned. The threat of being banned would be a great motivator.
As far as punishing the whole team, when a school is shut down like Moyer recently was, that's punnishing the whole team. I think the board at Moyer should get tossed, JMHO. But the idea that a failing school may have to close is not inherently wrong, like the idea that a school that can't graduate its student atheletes should be penalizedis not wrong.
It is not stupid at all. Non graduating students who will obviously be mentioned next year have no right to be in school only for sports. They have to achieve like everyone else. Again if previous non graduation statistics are the only available info we have, I'm sure it is no different this year.
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