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May 3, 2007

NCAA snatches scholarships from eleven schools

With the release of this year's Academic Performance Report, eleven schools will receive scholarship reduction penalties from the NCAA for having poor graduation rates on their football teams.

Of the 11 Division I-A football programs assessed scholarship losses, only Arizona, which will lose four scholarships, plays in a Bowl Championship Series conference. The rest of the Division I-A programs come from small conferences and traditionally have smaller budgets to spend on academic support: Florida International (nine), San Jose State (seven), Buffalo (four), Toledo (four), Middle Tennessee State (four), Nevada-Las Vegas (three), Louisiana-Lafayette (two), Western Michigan (two), Alabama at Birmingham (one) and Hawaii (one).

Many schools will be on guard for next year's report, as the NCAA will end a squad-size adjustment that was intended as a ramp up when APR was first announced a few years back. Had the squad-size adjustment not been in place this year, forty percent of the NCAA football teams would have been penalized.

Posted by Kevin Donahue

 

Comments:

  1. Zac said:

    posted on May 3, 2007 10:11 AM — 65.31.230.72 — link — abuse?



    I am amazed that Buffalo is on this list. There's a university with many touted academic research programs. It was among those being considered by my son. Apparently, not enough of that trickles down to its student athletes. Sad.

  2. hokie4life said:

    posted on May 3, 2007 12:20 PM — 67.72.98.106 — link — abuse?



    the ncaa should be ashaimed to pick on the little guys when it's the big guys who need to be put back in line. the little guys have enough trouble trying to compete. hell what did the ncaa do to usc when the bush family was taking advantage of the system? not a damn thing! what did the ncaa do to vt with marcus not a damn thing! what about the florida thug schools? they get away with murder. ncaa people this goes to you, get some balls get involved grow a figgin back bone and step in!!! the universities aren't doing near enough obviuosly to punish and correct their mischeviuos players.

  3. TrojanHorse said:

    posted on May 3, 2007 12:56 PM — 132.228.195.206 — link — abuse?



    to the NCAA.. why even bother

  4. So Cal USMC said:

    posted on May 3, 2007 10:45 PM — 204.62.68.23 — link — abuse?



    UNLV, the Basketball team had 5 Seniors on their Sweet 16 team roster, 3 of them had already graduated, the other 2 were right on track.

    ... Coach Sanford has to learn from Coach Kruger.

  5. hrposon said:

    posted on May 5, 2007 5:20 PM — 70.116.117.177 — link — abuse?



    The problem with the NCAA regulating scholarships is that some schools actually require the student athletes to attend class and take their own tests.