Big Guys Stepping On the Little Guys

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CURIOUS INDEX, 5/7/08
Published 5/7/2008 by Orson Swindle at EDSBS
... . The better analogy for this may be No Child Left Behind: schools performing badly are sanctioned, then sanctioned again, and given little recourse–and even less if they have no swing or political clout within the NCAA. The Wiz is all over the particulars, including more Entertaining Fun with Mike Stoops, who loses football games and whose team has the lowest APR among BCS teams. ...

I-A Is Not A Right
Published 5/14/2008 by Brian (noreply@blogger.com) at mgoblog
... it happening. [Salon's King Kaufman] Schools have always pushed their athletes into taking easy classes and avoiding challenging majors. The APR creates more incentive to push more of them that way. More kids graduating doesn't necessarily mean more kids are getting more education. But that's OK, the NCAA isn't about education. It's about profits from a multibillion-dollar entertainment industry with a mostly unpaid labor force. [Wizard of Odds] Not exactly sure what Myles Brand has accomplished in his tenure as Grand ...

Mid-Major Monday: Un-Natural Selection
Published 9 days ago by SMQ at Sunday Morning Quarterback: Front Page Posts
... things about the typical hamfistedness of the Association and probably forgot about it. The USA Today goes deeper today with not one! but two! stories on the APR and its sketchy application (why are there two largely redundant entries on the exact same subject? More clicks to show Web advertisers, I guess. But that's beside the point). The headline on ...