ACC academic honors
The ACC announced its All-Academic football team this morning, and the leader in honorees may surprise you.
Not Boston College. Not Duke. Not Wake Forest.
It's Miami. After a season of turmoil and tragedy, perhaps the Canes deserved some good news. Here's the breakdown of the squad, which is determined by GPAs of 3.0 or better.
Miami 8
BC 6
Duke 6
FSU 4
Clemson 2
Georgia Tech 2
Maryland 2
Wake Forest 2
North Carolina 1
N.C. State 1
Virginia 1
Virginia Tech 1
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Interesting stuff Rob, but I never quite knew what to make of it. Cleary there's at least some correllation, because schools like Duke and BC are always near the top of the NCAA grad rate rankings.
But couldn't you also argue that some schools inflate grades more than others - or make things easier for athletes - and thus are more likely to have athletes with high GPAs?
I always had the same conflict when considering which schools had more academic rejections from their football recruiting classes. Does that mean those schools are recruiting more borderline academic cases, or does it mean that the school actually has tougher admission requirements?
Posted on February 13, 2007 7:47 PM