Academic Progress Reports - USF

[TikiBull]

Daniel Simpson Day  - Has no grade point average.  All courses "incomplete"

[IncrediBULL]

From Greg/St Pete Times post.

May 04, 2009

USF scores down in newest APR ratings

The NCAA has posted a new year's worth of Academic Progress Rate scores, which measure the academic eligibility and retention levels of athletes in each sport at each NCAA school. There's no huge news here, because USF had stated in February that it was only facing penalties in one sport, baseball, which surrendered 1.27 scholarships during this school year as a penalty for its low APR score.

We'll have more on the scores Tuesday -- how they compare within the state, within the Big East, etc. -- but we can point out that of USF's 17 sports, nine saw their scores drop from a year ago, while six saw gains. USF's three lowest-scoring sports -- men's basketball, football and baseball -- all dropped lower, and in all, only three of USF's 17 teams had scores above the national average for their sport in Division I programs. As of Tuesday morning, the NCAA has since removed the posted data from its website, but will release data for all schools on Wednesday.

The NCAA sets a mark of 925 out of 1000 as the point at which a school is susceptible to penalties, and USF remains below that mark in football (909, down from 917 last year), baseball (914, down from 923) and men's basketball (878, down from 904). As long as a team doesn't have any athletes who left the program while academically ineligible, it faces no penalty from the NCAA. Men's golf, men's tennis and women's soccer all saw their scores drop by 20 points or more.

The biggest gain came from volleyball, which remains in the lowest 10 percent for its sport, but saw an 11-point jump from 929 to 940. Women's basketball, women's tennis, men's track, men's soccer and men's cross-country also saw their scores improve. Softball, which had USF's highest score last year at 997, dropped to 990; women's golf now has the highest team score, unchanged from last year at 993.

It's complicated to explain the APR, but this is the first year that the NCAA took away old results in calculating from a new four-year window, so a change in APR this year as much reflects the loss of data from 2003-04 as it reflects the addition of new data from the 2007-08 school year. Next year, the results from 2004-05 -- a year of unusually high turnover as USF transitioned to the Big East -- will come off the books and should help the Bulls' APR scores, especially in football.

Also was sent this:

List of APR by Conference

SEC:

UGA: 976

VU: 969

UF: 963

LSU: 960

Bama: 955

AU: 949

UT: 949

UK: 948

MSU: 933

USC: 929

Ark: 927

Ole: 910

ACC:

Duke: 980

Da U: 977

BC: 970

Wake: 966

GT: 957

CU: 955

UNC: 947

UVA: 937

NCST: 933

FSU: 932

Mar: 931

VT: 931

Big Ten:

PSU: 976

NW: 973

tOSU: 968

IU: 957

Wisc: 953

Mich: 947

Iowa: 946

MSU: 931

Ill: 930

Pur: 926

Minn: 915

Big 12:

OU: 952

Mizz: 951

NU: 950

TAMU: 946

KU: 941

KSU: 939

OSU: 939

UT: 939

ISU: 935

TT: 935

Bayl: 930

Colo: 929

Big East:

RU: 980

SU: 956

UConn:951

Cinc: 947

Pitt: 944

WVU: 939

UofL: 930

USF: 909

Pac-10:

Stan: 984

Cal: 970

USC: 956

UW: 954

UCLA: 948

ASU: 945

Oreg: 935

OSU: 930

Ariz: 924

WSU: 918

ND: 974

[cubuffsdoug]

still...being last in the BCS in ANYTHING is not good.  specially when it is academics.

we've got to change this.   i like reading that the gpa this spring was over 3.0 but its more than gpa.  it has to do with how many players graduate in 4 years (which is stupid, its hard enough to graduate in 4 years if you are just a full time student, nevermind if you play football or have a full time job)

either way, the report puts a black eye on usf so hopefully we take steps to fix it.

It's a combo of retention of athletes (academics), progress towards graduation and it's a moving target of a 6 year span.  Example of this is '03 to '09 and then next year '04 to '10.

[JerseyBull06]

still...being last in the BCS in ANYTHING is not good. specially when it is academics.

we've got to change this. i like reading that the gpa this spring was over 3.0 but its more than gpa. it has to do with how many players graduate in 4 years (which is stupid, its hard enough to graduate in 4 years if you are just a full time student, nevermind if you play football or have a full time job)

either way, the report puts a black eye on usf so hopefully we take steps to fix it.

It's a combo of retention of athletes (academics), progress towards graduation and it's a moving target of a 6 year span. Example of this is '03 to '09 and then next year '04 to '10.

it sounds like this report runs similar to college itself in the sense that if you screw up at all it can haunt you forever - or at lesat for a very long time - as far as that stuff is concerned.

I've been dealing with that type of stuff on a personal level my whole time at USF because of transfer from another University...so I can understand how frustrating something that's calculated this way can be for the Athletic Department

[Donno]

This measurement is silly and should be taken with a grain of salt.

If I understand it correctly baseball will always be gettng dinged as players are eligible for the draft after their junior year.

Heck I think I would have been a ding to our score as I turned pro after my senior year and didn't graduate in 4 years.

I have 2 masters degree but I guess I am an idiot according to NCAA!

[Greg Auman]

It's actually a four-year window -- the current scores reflect data from the 2004-05 school year through the 2007-08 school year.

[Mama_Bull]

t's only a short term problem:

Leavitt twitters toward 100% graduation.

http://www.examiner.com/x-873-South-Florida-Bulls-Examiner~y2009m5d7-Leavitt-twitters-toward-100-graduation

[Jamie]

It's actually a four-year window -- the current scores reflect data from the 2004-05 school year through the 2007-08 school year.

Any idea how many athletes transferred when USF jumped to the Big East?

Thanks for at least digging into the story a little bit, instead of typing "909 LOL!" into your keyboard and then doing the written version of lighting a cigar and laughing like certain other writers.

[Bull Dozer]

This will be primary material for the trolls from other teams. 

[Greg Auman]

Jamie, I don't have a year-by-year count on football transfers, but if you look at this APR story from Dec. 2005, I referenced 20 scholarship football players from the 2004 roster leaving before their eligibility expired. The '04-05 departures count toward the current total, but will be off the books next spring (some of the 20 would count toward '05-06, but I can't tell how many easily), which should bring USF's number up. That story also mentions that USF had a 965 in football in '03-04 -- that year wasn't counted in this year's 909 score.

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/12/10/Sports/USF__Academic_progres.shtml