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APR About To Get Tougher

By 11W Staff - 11 August 2011
14 Comments

Bumps up cutline from 900 to 930, OSU football's 4-year average was 985

Source sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/basketball/ncaa/08/11/NCAA.APR.changes....

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Comments

Baroclinicity on 11 Aug 2011 - 4:02pm #

According to Brett McMurphy of CBSSports.com, if the new APR scores were in place last year, guess which Big Ten team would not have been bowl eligible?

Johnny Staff on 11 Aug 2011 - 5:26pm #

yeah, since RR took over, michigan's APR went into the toliet. hoke might be able to bump that up, but we'll see. also one of the things about OSU that's underreported is how highly ranked OSU's APR score is, it's top 10 percentile

William on 11 Aug 2011 - 5:40pm #

OSU's APR was the highest of all Top 25 teams last year. Which is impressive considering that meant they had a higher APR than Stanford.

Johnny Staff on 11 Aug 2011 - 5:40pm #

yeah but we cheated (we must've)

BuckeyeSki on 11 Aug 2011 - 11:14pm #

If your not careful SportsbyBrooks is gonna report this as fact tomorrow with you as his source.....

If Denard Robinson isn't careful with spooning all that food into his mouth, he's going to end up lookin' like Whoopi Goldberg

AltaBuck on 11 Aug 2011 - 5:49pm #

Not like I'm trying to defend those rodents but don't transfers have a negative impact on APR scores? Quite a few players during the RR regime left.

I have been known on occasion to howl at the moon. - Crash Davis

marvorama on 11 Aug 2011 - 6:50pm #

According to ESPN, Ohio State would not have been eligible for March Madness with the new rules:

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/6853878/ncaa-committee-approves-increase-apr-cutline

JakeBuckeye on 11 Aug 2011 - 6:56pm #

Hmmmmm.

I really hope this isn't something to worry about. But it looks like it is. Gotta get it done in the classroom, kids! And in the end that is right.

October 20th: National Kenneth Guiton Day

William on 11 Aug 2011 - 7:14pm #

It doesn't help when OSU has a bunch of one and dones. I'll be interested to see what UK's will look like in a few years.

marvorama on 11 Aug 2011 - 10:58pm #

One-and-dones defintely hurt -- especially those who don't finish out the quarter before effectively dropping out.

I'm curious if the upcoming switch from quarters to semesters will have an effect?

Johnny Staff on 11 Aug 2011 - 11:02pm #

it's an interesting thought; i don't know when the NBA generally starts their camps, but i do know that OSU football players generally had to skip the beginning of NFL camp because school wasn't over yet

marvorama on 11 Aug 2011 - 11:37pm #

Not sure on the timing of NBA camps, but most of our one-and-dones have declared shortly after March Madness. Most importantly, it seems that the timing of the academic withdrawl is what affects the APR. Here's an article from 2009 that shows that the timing of Oden's and Kufos's academic withdrawls were what did the damage. Noopy Crater's untimely withdrawl also contributed to the poor APR score.

BJ Mullens, however, did the right thing:

Bruno, a professor of psychology and neuroscience, found himself torn a few months ago as he counseled freshman B.J. Mullens to refrain from enrolling in the third quarter once Mullens decided to enter the draft. Bruno didn't want the school to take another APR hit.

Given this, the switch from quarters to semesters should be irrelevant...it's more a matter of ensuring that one-and-dones (or transfers) occur at the "right time".