APR Rates
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I read that PSU football had the lowest APR rate in the BiG and that OSU had the best. Can this possibly be true?
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That has been the case with PSU FB for years (whether or not the NCAA APR rate - which has nothing to do with graduating, or earning meaningful degrees, FWIW - matters? YMMV)I read that PSU football had the lowest APR rate in the BiG and that OSU had the best. Can this possibly be true?
I read that players earn 1 pt for staying enrolled and another point for staying academically eligible then dividing the total received by all players against the maximum possible. I'm not saying it's the best measurement or that all schools report fairly but LAST IN THE BiG seems horrible by any measure.
This article categorizes schools as being "elite", middle of the pack, and those with the lowest scores and PSU is one of the lowest.
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/ncaa-apr-rankings-2026-college-061244809.html
We knew The Grand Experiment was dead but this is an embarrassment IMO. JoePa must be rolling over in his grave.
Stupid questions: Is there any indication that the APR could improve under Campbell? Does he care about this? Related to this, why did the APR suck balls under Franklin?
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Not in today's world with all of the transfer activity going on. The NCAA's measures of academic "success", APR and GSR, have become obsolete, not that they were particularly meaningful to begin with.Stupid questions: Is there any indication that the APR could improve under Campbell? Does he care about this? Related to this, why did the APR suck balls under Franklin?
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$$ 'College" Athletics and its linkages to "education"?
Yep, I'd say you are overwhelmingly correct - with maybe a few hold outs among fans of certain programs, who want to believe that linkage remains.
Overwhelmingly, the key players in that symphony have long since moved on from any pretense wrt the purposes of $$ college athletics.
This is not a good look so thank you BGJ for this turd. Does this really matter at all? Certainly not in acquiring talent. It is not like this is 1975 with Joe Pa's Grand Experiment and a student athlete meant something. Still it is a metric that you would at least like to be average in.
I'm not sure how much it matters anymore. I'm not even sure how "credits" transfer or are counted with the never ending swinging gate that is the portal and players playing at 3 different schools in less than a years time.I read that PSU football had the lowest APR rate in the BiG and that OSU had the best. Can this possibly be true?
And I'm pretty much calling BS on Ohio State and Michy being 1&2 in the B1G.