Oregon track graduation rate only 72%

piss poor effort wrote:

Oregon also sported strong graduation success rates in women’s golf and both tennis programs (100 percent), as well as soccer (94 percent), softball (94 percent), men’s golf (90 percent), women’s track and field (88 percent), volleyball (80 percent) and men’s track and field (72 percent).

Full article:

http://special.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/sports/23304660-41/story.csp

It mentions 4 year enrollment, does this mean redshirts hurt them?

Also this was for people who enrolled from 1999-2002, before the new "revival" if you want to call it that.

The University of Nike, Eugene

Average would be 80% since the women outshine the men in this case. What about cross country? Distance runners usually get decent grades...

i'm pretty sure transfers count against graduation rates like chad hall leaving hurts and other runners who decided to leave.

piss poor effort wrote:

Oregon also sported strong graduation success rates in women’s golf and both tennis programs (100 percent), as well as soccer (94 percent), softball (94 percent), men’s golf (90 percent), women’s track and field (88 percent), volleyball (80 percent) and men’s track and field (72 percent).

Full article:

http://special.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/sports/23304660-41/story.csp

I can tell you that a number of us move back to our dyer/warmer climates and polish off the degree there...

I'd give Vin a few more years...

of course transfers destroy it. In 1999 Villanova had 6 freshman girls transfer out. Their graduation rate a few years later was like an SEC or Big Ten School.

When Arkansas was winning 3 championships a year, USA Today (I have looked for the article many times, no luck, no link) reported the Razorbacks had a 23 or 27% graduation rate. It took the luster off what they were doing for me.

RickSantillo wrote:

of course transfers destroy it. In 1999 Villanova had 6 freshman girls transfer out. Their graduation rate a few years later was like an SEC or Big Ten School.

yeah, if only the Big Ten was as clean as the Big East?!

gotsta move on to a big time track career, aint got no time for school. if people are dropping out of school for a track career, they were too stupid to graduate in the first place.

LOL

Well, the overall graduation rate at Oregon is 65.9%:

http://www.ir.ufl.edu/nat_rankings/students/gradrateOld.pdf

So, 72% for the track team doesn't look too bad to me.

1 University of Virginia-Main Campus 93.1%

2 University of California-Berkeley 89.6%

3 University of California-Los Angeles 89.2%

4 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 88.0%

5 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 85.7%

6 University of California-San Diego 85.2%

7 Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 84.6%

8 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 82.0%

9 University of Maryland-College Park 81.8%

10 University of Florida 81.6%

11 University of California-Santa Barbara 81.5%

12 University of California-Davis 81.4%

13 University of Wisconsin-Madison 81.3%

14 University of California-Irvine 81.0%

15 Texas A & M University 78.3%

16 The University of Texas at Austin 77.8%

17 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 76.9%

18 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus 76.3%

19 Michigan State University 75.2%

20 Rutgers University-New Brunswick 74.6%

21 Ohio State University-Main Campus 72.7%

22 Indiana University-Bloomington 72.6%

23 Purdue University-Main Campus 71.8%

24 University of Missouri-Columbia 69.0%

25 Iowa State University 67.4%

26 University of Colorado at Boulder 66.5%

27 University of Iowa 66.0%

28 University of Oregon 65.9%

29 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 65.7%

30 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 63.7%

31 University at Buffalo 62.0%

32 Stony Brook University 61.4%

33 University of Kansas 59.7%

34 University of Arizona 57.2%

Are the Oregon dropouts distance runners on the traveling squad or non-traveling walk-ons and no-hope sprinters? Who are these bums?

Please name the six girls who left Nova in 1999.

Dill emma wrote:

Well, the overall graduation rate at Oregon is 65.9%:

http://www.ir.ufl.edu/nat_rankings/students/gradrateOld.pdf

So, 72% for the track team doesn't look too bad to me.

Many people drop out or transfer first term or at some point of freshman year...

I give 0% credit to my coach for me graduating, and would resent him taking credit. It's nothing against him- but I'm the one who studied and learned things he's never heard of.

I also give him 0% of the blame for anyone not graduating.

I also resent guys like Bob Knight taking credit for high grad rates. It seems to me, he's always recruited the kind who'll graduate anywhere they go. Part of it is that, they already know Knight's a tough proposition. Let's see Knight take a flunkee and make him graduate.

RickSantillo -- I figure you've been on vacation. Who are the six women who transferred from Villanova in 1999?

The Bob knight statistic is the most fraudulent claim ever. The claim is anybody who played for all four years for him graduated. Okay, that excludes the people he bullied out of the program who transferred, anybody who left for lack of playing time, anybody who turned pro early, anybody who flunked out of school. Anybody see a problem with that claim?

Mr. Obvious wrote

The Bob knight statistic is the most fraudulent claim ever. The claim is anybody who played for all four years for him graduated. Okay, that excludes the people he bullied out of the program who transferred, anybody who left for lack of playing time, anybody who turned pro early, anybody who flunked out of school. Anybody see a problem with that claim?

You shouldn't post when/if ignorant.

If you transfer it works against the graduation statistic.

If you go pro early, it works against the graduation statistic.

I. Thomas worked against the graduation statistic when he came out early, and Knight stayed on him, even through the rough times of their relationship, more for Thomas' mother than anything else.

College athletics need more Bob Knights from the education perspective (not so much the bullying perspective) and to question his stats works against the problem.

And ... in terms of hating Huggins (I deplore his grad. rate), when you listen to his philosophy it may well soften how you feel about him. Basically, he refuses to stick his head in the sand in terms of NCAA Basketball being a minor league for the NBA rather than a co-venture of athletics and education. He's fighting the hypocricy in his own twisted way.

well that could be because that 72% counts transfer students

stats can be complicated, you need context to get the full story