Originally posted by Briggsky:
I'm talking student athletes. Cal has a 17% grad rate it's that simple. UK has had the worst record for three of the last four years of all teams participating in the NCAA. Time didn't report on basketball grad rates stupid. Bad link and bad numbers. This is a basketball forum. A UL basketball forum. Two years ago Rick had the 3rd highest grad rate over the last five years at over 70%. Of all participating teams reported by CBS from NCAA numbers only Duke and Kansas had higher rates. So the 59% number has to be a lie. The over grad rate for male athletes at KY was shown at 55% in the Time study to which you refer. Anybody who can count knows that UK has not graduated 89% of it's players since 2007. 17 players left after their first year alone to go pro and 17 others have either left or transferred just since 2006 alone. That's 34 different players who didn't graduate from KY and I'm not counting players who left after two years yet.
Again you need to learn to read a chart. Time used the numbers given to them and obviously KY's were bogus. Are you really dense enough to be believe Cal graduated 89% which you reported. we are talking about grad rate not GSR or APR. You can't take those to a job interview.
Here are the players who left since 2006 without graduating for UK. I'm sure you have a list of players who went pro before graduating. Now tell me exactly how UK can have a grad rate of 89% when some 35 kids have either been forced out or left on their own in Čal's time.
Shagari Alleyne
Rakalin Sims
Adam Williams
Mark Coury
Derrick Jasper
Alex Legion
Morakinyo Williams
Adam Delph
Kevin Galloway
Mark Halsell
Matthew Pilgram
Landon Stone
A.J. Stewart
Donald Williams
Darnell Dodson
Stacy Poole
Ryan Harrow
Kyke Wiktjer
Goodness Briggs, I thought we had talked about your reading comprehension. The overall grad rate is the rate of the males in the school, not the male athletes. Like Steelers and I were discussing earlier, Kentucky graduates 55% of males, Louisville graduates 50%. Also, the calculus the article uses is Graduate Success Rate, which is slightly different than grad rate, I'll admit. However, what I was trying to point out is that based on that metric, Kentucky has an 89%, and Louisville has a 58%, that is all.
I appreciate the trip down memory lane, even though you enjoy blaming a lot of transfers on Cal that happened before he came to Kentucky. As anyone knows, when a new coach comes in, there are transfers. As you guys enjoy pointing out, Kentucky had three coaches during that time. Almost half of those transfers were before Cal set foot on campus.
You can call the data that Time Magazine uses a lie all you want. I am neither a reporter nor a researcher, so all I can do is show the numbers and draw conclusions based on them. If you choose to believe otherwise, that is your prerogative.
