NCAAbbs

Due to poor graduation rates the NCAA has sanctioned 53 Div. I basketball programs. The story is here

Some interesting names on the list:

College of Charleston
Mercer
Tennessee
UAB
UNC Greensboro

Seeing Tennessee and College of Charleston on that list is no surprise.

Freaking Liberty is on the list are you kidding me? We're missing something very common sense here with this crappy APR thing. I can't believe that schools like Liberty aren't going out of their way to graduate players....

Maybe now I know why Indiana wasn't interested in Bruce Pearl.

Sorry I just don't buy this mess. Penalizing a school for kicking a kid off the team who was into drugs? They're coaches, not babysitters.

Maybe they should be a bit more cautious in recruiting. Rarely do these social and academic issues just appear out of the blue.

It's called responsibility, you recruit to win at all costs and sometimes the cost is awfully high.

Other's mules mileage may vary.

So does that mean that some students will actually lose scholarships on those teams? I would suspect it will decrease recruiting until the sanctions expire, but for next year, it may mean some students actually lose scholarships.

Okay, look at the rules of recruiting now. What are the coaches going to do, get to know them on a webcam? they can't text, they can't call, they can't hardly visit anymore, the restrictions on coaches now don't allow them to really get to know the family anymore. Besides, what happens as in the case of Mishler who got homesick? Should ETSU be penalized if he doesn't graduate from college? While I don't think it should be the Bob Huggins way of zero percent graduation rates as it was when he was at UC, they need to take a closer look at the way things are written.
Also, how can a coach find out if a kid has been in trouble with the law? Legally, he or she can't. Juvenile records are sealed, and the kid in question doesn't have to release any of that information.

Again,

"Rarely do these social and academic issues just appear out of the blue." nuf said.

Lover- I would think that you could ask the coach.

I think the way the APR is currently set up a kid like Mishler doesn't kill you. There is a total of 4 points you can get for each kid. One of those points is retention to the next year (or graduation for a senior). Therefore, what this is truly judging is your academic + retention. If you mantain solid academics you can afford some attrition, but you can't really afford both.

Situations like Mishler, Twilley for yall make it tough on the coaching staff as sometimes there is little that a staff could do to predict those kind of defections. In order for mid to low-majors to compete talent wise, you are sometimes forced to take players with some level of risk. The APR hurts the mid and low majors much more than it hurts the high majors.

Which is yet another reason why we should all disassociate ourselves from this dying sport and embrace superior hockey.