Tuesday, October 26, 2004
The NCAA has Myles to go
before its own Brand of accountability takes root. But charting players’ semester to semester progress towards graduation is a reform whose time has come. I expect the more frequent release of data to focus schools’ attention ever more slightly on academic performance.Groundbreaking is the NCAA's attempt to give a more "real-time" glimpse of individual schools and their sports programs. Beginning as early as December, the NCAA will release data that charts programs from semester to semester, indicating what percentage of players on a current team are on track to graduate.
"We'll be able to project into the future what graduation rates will look like, who's being affected and how," said Todd Petr, managing director of research for the NCAA.
