Football players at most schools have SAT's lower than the general student body! :shock: :shock: :shock: They do spend a lot of time talkng about the Gators in this article...I wonder if they really did this article so they could take a covert shot at the Gators!! SAT's of Athletes I don't know the gap between the ND guys and the general student body but it has to be pretty decent. In fact there was a rumour floating around that ND was going to up the min SAT score for non-football athletes to get admited. Which given the high grad rates, in most womens teams it's 100%, across the board I hope they don't fix a problem that doesn't exist. Terry
I had heard about that article. The Gator information is from 2003 - 2004 which means not a single player that Meyer recruited is in the data. Georgia doesn't have any numbers for this decade. Apparently that is the latest data available though. It does not come as any surprise that athletes have lower test scores. I hear Tebow's score was 890, but the last time he took it was in the 9th grade. He has a 3.7 GPA at Florida if I remember correctly and is on track to graduate early. The SAT scores make a big difference to the average student, the average football player only has to score enough to meet a lower standard and be able to play football. I just don't get excited about articles like this. What I am excited about is what Meyer is doing with Gator football players as students and how much their GPA and graduating record is improving.
I also noted that several schools just refused to submit the data, and the private schools don't have to. Interesting article but I'm not sure what it all means.
They might as well write an article disclosing that Water is wet. If they want to write a provocative article then they should write an expose on the low graduation rates of black football players across the country. That in itself is one of the reasons there aren't more black coaches in the NCAA, you have to have a degree if you want to coach in the NCAA..or High School. So they go to the NFL. In fact the BCA should be all over this topic, but they aren't.
Is their an executive summary which discloses the average SAT for football players and then the average for the overall student population? It would be interesting to see how these compare. You could have school A with a football average of 900 and ovaerall average of 1300 and thus a spread of 400. In contrast, you could have school B with a football average of 950 and spread of just 150, representing an overall average of 1100. What woud then be intersting to see is the grad rates and APR for football players at each of the schools .... in contrast to the overall grad rate for each school.
I agree with Terry's assessment that it's like revealing that water is wet. Much ado about nothing. Earlier today, I glanced at the highest ten and lowest ten, and there is very little difference between the top and bottom. A meaningless comparison.
...and incomplete. It only consists of the schools that felt like responding! Of course, in fairness, I think I also read that the data was supposed to be confidential, but the NCAA @#$^&* that up too.