Cats Ranked #1

[NJCat]

5 year APR percentage. Congrats to the student-athletes.

1. Northwestern
2016: 995
2015: 992
2014: 991
2013: 991
2012: 996
5 Year Average: 993.2

Nice pic of Fitz headlining the story.

http://collegefootballnews.com/2017/08/2017-cfn-five-year-program-analysis-apr-rankings

3. Wisconsin
2016: 990
2015: 992
2014: 998
2013: 989
2012: 985
5 Year Average: 990.8

12 Michigan 979.6
14 Nebraska 979
20 Rutgers 976.6
21 Minnesota 975.2
T23 Ohio State 974.6
T23 Indiana 974.6
T34 Illinois 971.2
T39 Michigan State 968.4
T41 Iowa 967.6
T53 Maryland 964.2
59 Purdue 963.4
62 Penn State 960

 

[its_the_sauce]

Impressed with Badgers

 

[MRCat95]

Penn State used to be near the top of this list every year.

 

[DaCat]

Penn State used to be near the top of this list every year.

Franklin bringing the SEC to State College.

 

[CatChatAR]

Surprised by Purdue.

 

[DkeCat]

Penn State used to be near the top of this list every year.

They will pop back up - low score likely driven by transfers due to sanctions

 

[Gladeskat]

Surprised by Purdue.

I'm not. They have been at or near the bottom of the B1G for many years. It's a dimbulb program.

 

[CoralSpringsCat]

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How do you like dem apples Feli?

 

[Deeringfish]

111111111

How do you like dem apples Feli?

Palindrome likes them.

 

[GlideCat]

Franklin bringing the SEC to State College.

For giggles, the SEC:

9 Vanderbilt 982.4
T15 Alabama 978
T15 Missouri 978
T26 Florida 973.4
T28 South Carolina 972.6
33 Mississippi State 971.4
38 Auburn 969
50 Texas A&M 965.6
T57 Georgia 963.6
T79 Ole Miss 953.2
101 LSU 947.4
T105 Kentucky 946.6
T107 Arkansas 945.8
T107 Tennessee 945.8

Average SEC Score: 963.77
Average B1G Score: 974.17
Average SEC Rank: 55
Average B1G Rank: 29

I am not sure how much longer the Tennessee fans can continue to blame their poor rankings on Derek Dooley.

On the flip side, Alabama has something figured out. To be ranked #15 and still field the teams they field is impressive.

 

[DaCat]

On the flip side, Alabama has something figured out. To be ranked #15 and still field the teams they field is impressive.

Saban seems to run a tight ship. But I also would like to see the kind of courses the players are taking (and what kind of "help" they get), and whether their 3rd grade reading level improves by the time they graduate.

 

[D_C_B]

5 year APR percentage. Congrats to the student-athletes.

1. Northwestern
2016: 995
2015: 992
2014: 991
2013: 991
2012: 996
5 Year Average: 993.2

Nice pic of Fitz headlining the story.

http://collegefootballnews.com/2017/08/2017-cfn-five-year-program-analysis-apr-rankings

3. Wisconsin
2016: 990
2015: 992
2014: 998
2013: 989
2012: 985
5 Year Average: 990.8

12 Michigan 979.6
14 Nebraska 979
20 Rutgers 976.6
21 Minnesota 975.2
T23 Ohio State 974.6
T23 Indiana 974.6
T34 Illinois 971.2
T39 Michigan State 968.4
T41 Iowa 967.6
T53 Maryland 964.2
59 Purdue 963.4
62 Penn State 960

The best part is that APR is basically a joke of a test and an extremely low bar. If they tweaked it to actually include factors more germaine to academic success than merely staying eligible and barely passing, and penalized not graduating, we'd look significantly better than we already do! Significantly! Hell, Kentucky basketball got a perfect APR last year.

If they actually factored in difficultly of coursework, GPAs and 4 year graduations (5 for red shirts), the REAL academic schools like us would really shine and the others (hairball, Saban) would be shown for the lowest-common-denominator setters they are.

 

[DaCat]

If they actually factored in difficultly of coursework, GPAs and 4 year graduations (5 for red shirts), the REAL academic schools like us would really shine and the others (hairball, Saban) would be shown for the lowest-common-denominator setters they are.

What are you talking about? Hairball and Satan run amazing programs... You think it's easy to get a college degree with a 3rd grade reading level?

 

[GlideCat]

What are you talking about? Hairball and Satan run amazing programs... You think it's easy to get a college degree with a 3rd grade reading level?

At Alabama?... yes

With about two reading grade levels to spare.

 

[EvanstonCat]

At Alabama?... yes

With about two reading grade levels to spare.

Yeah, I'm not really impressed with high APRs and the likes of dOSU. Those schools do everything they can to keep their kids eligible. Tutors that go to class and write papers for them. Make up Oral Exams. Joke classes like Aids Awareness and Golf. Actually, it is indeed impressive in its own way how they keep kids who can't read at a 4th grade eligible. The only reason they don't have APR as high NU's is because of all the kids like Sammy Maldonaldo that they kick to the curb when they don't see use for them on the field in order to free up the scholarship.

 

[D_C_B]

APR measures the ability to stay eligible for sports. It doesn't measure anything resembling academic competence, let alone excellence.

It is a fundamentally meaningless number created and touted by the likes of Kentucky basketball and SEC football teams to con people into believing they're actually educating these kids. It's a joke and offensive to anyone who looks into it any further than what APR stands for.

And the hilarious part is that even with a statistic they created and rigged in their favor, we still whoop them. It's just that we'd whoop them a million times more if the statistic actually measured qualitative differences.