BleacherCoaches.com

This is from 2005

this list last year.

Biggest Difference in Grad Rates Between Football Players and All Students (Difference of 20% or more) Division IA
Football Players All Students Difference
BYU 19% 72% -53%
Cal 48% 84% -36%
Texas 34% 70% -36%
Pittsburgh 31% 63% -32%
Florida 42% 73% -31%
UCLA 55% 83% -28%
Michigan 57% 84% -27%
North Carolina 53% 80% -27%
Miami (Ohio) 53% 80% -27%
Michigan State 41% 68% -27%
Rutgers 49% 73% -24%
Illinois 56% 79% -23%
Texas A&M 50% 73% -23%
Colorado 43% 66% -23%
Kentucky 36% 58% -22%
Tennessee 38% 58% -20%
North Carolina State 42% 62% -20%
Missouri 44% 64% -20%
Clemson 51% 71% -20%
Wisconsin 56% 76% -20%

Since you are so sure Harris got the boot for more than wins and losses I challenge you to prove it.
It should be easy for 'mr. i copy all the experts and re post on Bleachercoaches' to make my self look BIG.

show me where Harris was let go for anything more than wins.

I'll say it yet again:

I fully EXPECT PSU to have a somewhat higher graduation rate than Pitt given the lack of rigor in their academic programs and their pseudo-academic, made-for-football-player academic programs.

Numbers can be somewhat misleading too...PSU had 13% (PSU 76% vs. Pitt 63%) and 17% (PSU 85% vs. Pitt 68%) more graduates than Pitt the last two years respectively. If each class gets 20-22 scholarships per class, then that's PSU graduating about 3 more kids per year than Pitt. Heck, Pitt has had several players who have left early that could account for some of that. They also overrecruit at some positions like RB, WR, and DL, which has caused some transfers.

Again, I would expect academic success and some AAs from the football team when PSU players are taking courses in how to milk cows, how to be a personal trainer, how to catch deer poachers putting up salt licks, and the fine art of cutting grass...or in Navorro's case, the art of SMOKING grass.

Considering their community college-esque academic programs, PSU graduating a few more players each year is insignificant. I'd expect them to have 100% given this, plus the infalliable GRAND EXPERIMENT "NO LION LEFT BEHIND" says they should have 100% graduation rates EVERY YEAR.

YESSA MASSA, I DO DECLARE I SURE DO HOPE I'MMA BE ONE DEM 17% GON' GRADUATE FROM DA PITT SCHOOL, MASSA. MAMA ALWAYS SAYS I'M SPECIAL, I JUS' HOPE I'MMA BE ONE O' DEM 4 KIDS GON' GRADUATE. BUT IF I GRADUATE IN 9 YEARS THAT STILL GON' COUNT, RIGHT?

Stop talking like Navorro Bowman, Gus Felder, Floyd Wedderburn, and Curtis Enis...in all caps no less...Come to think of it, stop talking like every PSU student and alum who ever lived.

Pitt sucks. They just proved it by losing on Versus last night to Utah.

That is all.

No substance.......again. But at least he had 2 facts in his post....They lost to Utah and they were on Versus. Ham needs a life. That is all.

Ham has a life. Thanks for your concern, bub.

Pitt still sucks.

WPIAL~Titan wrote:Stop talking like Navorro Bowman, Gus Felder, Floyd Wedderburn, and Curtis Enis...in all caps no less...Come to think of it, stop talking like every PSU student and alum who ever lived.

Hey Titan, how is the new crop of underage students you are scouting out this year?

I hope Wagner doesn't appear on WPInheAdL's list. He kicked the ball good today.