06-29-2016, 07:19 PM
I think it's a fraud to tout a 100% graduation rate, when it is based only on[size=1em] players who completed their four years of eligibility at Tennessee.[/size][size=0.7em]
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[size=1em]Basketball is a spring semester sport. Any eligible senior player would be in her last semester. There should be a 100% grad rate among senior players in their last semester. It's really not a big accomplishment. [/size]
[size=1em]O[/size][size=1em]f course, measuring the graduation rate only for seniors in their last semester excludes all the attrition among players in their first three and a half years. Tennessee is saying "Excluding all the players who left in their first three and a half years, the graduation rate was perfect." Meh.[/size]
[size=1em]I checked the federal grad rates for Tennessee women's basketball for the classes entering from 1999 through 2008. The rolling four-class federal grad rates ranged from 58% to 85%. Not terrible. But not anywhere near 100%.[/size]
[size=1em]I'm much more impressed with standard graduation rates than with these non-standard metrics that some schools like to create.[/size]
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[size=1em]Basketball is a spring semester sport. Any eligible senior player would be in her last semester. There should be a 100% grad rate among senior players in their last semester. It's really not a big accomplishment. [/size]
[size=1em]O[/size][size=1em]f course, measuring the graduation rate only for seniors in their last semester excludes all the attrition among players in their first three and a half years. Tennessee is saying "Excluding all the players who left in their first three and a half years, the graduation rate was perfect." Meh.[/size]
[size=1em]I checked the federal grad rates for Tennessee women's basketball for the classes entering from 1999 through 2008. The rolling four-class federal grad rates ranged from 58% to 85%. Not terrible. But not anywhere near 100%.[/size]
[size=1em]I'm much more impressed with standard graduation rates than with these non-standard metrics that some schools like to create.[/size]