Flagging the bowl games
ONLY 12 of the 56 college bowl football teams should be allowed on the field in my ninth annual Graduation Gap Bowl. Those 12 are the only ones, according to the National Collegiate Athletic Association, that have a graduation rate of at least 50 percent for both black and white players and a racial graduation gap of less than 15 percentage points. The NCAA gives colleges six years to graduate scholarship athletes.
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Here are the calls by the head referee of the Graduation Gap Bowl.
Bowl Eligible
TOUCHDOWN
Graduation Rates 65 percent or more and racial gaps of less than 15 percentage points.
Boston College (78 percent overall). White 82, Black 74
Notre Dame (77) W 76, B 76
Southern Miss. (66) W 64 B 67
(Navy does not give athletic scholarships, but has campus- wide male grad rate of 86 percent, 88 percent for white males and 75 percent for black males)
FIRST DOWN
Graduation Rates of at least 50 percent for both black and white players and racial gaps of less than 15 percentage points.
Purdue (63) W 65 B 59
Virginia Tech (58) W 64 B 54
Southern Cal (58) W 65 B 52
Marshall (58) W 63 B 63
Miami (57) W 57 B 56
Boise State (54) W 61 B 50
Hawaii (53) W 52 B 64
North Carolina (53) W 57 B 50
Bowl Ineligible
FALSE START
Overall Graduation Rate of 65 or more percent, but racial gaps of 15 or more points.
Syracuse (78) W 91 B 69
Virginia (75) W 93, B 63
OFFSIDES
Overall Graduation Rate of 50 or more percent, but racial gaps of 15-20 points.
Wisconsin (56) W 65 B 45
UCLA (55) W 66 B 47
Ohio St. (52) W 63 B 43
Bowling Green (50) W 58 B 40
Texas A&M (50) W 59 B 44
PASS INTERFERENCE
Overall graduation rate of 50 or more percent but racial gaps of 21-25 points.
Toledo (62) W 77 B 56
Cincinnati (60) W 47 B 68
Texas Tech (60) W 73 B 50
Michigan (57) W 70 B 47
PERSONAL FOUL (GRABBING THE FACE MASK)
Overall graduation rate of 50 or more percentage points but racial gaps over 25 points.
Iowa (58) W 64 B 38
Connecticut (54) W 68 B 41
Ala.-Birmingham (54) W 69 B 41
Georgia (53) W 73 B 40
Miami (OH) (53) W 67 B 31
Iowa St. (51) W 63 B 36
PLAYER DISQUALIFICATION
Overall graduation rate of under 50 percent.
Florida St. (49) W 71 B 43Alabama (49) W 63 B 45
Wyoming (49) W 59 B 38
Georgia Tech (49) W 63 B 43
Auburn (48) W 74 B 40
California (48) W 59 B 42
Troy (48) W 48 B 49
West. Va. (46) W 56 B 33
Okla. St. (45) W 57 B 41
North Texas (44) W 58 B 38
Oregon St. (44) W 50 B 40
Ariz. St. (44) W 59 B 34
Colorado (43) W 60 B 29
Louisiana St. (42) W 61 B 35
New Mexico (42) W 50 B 38
Florida (42) W 56 B 36
Minnesota (41) W 60 B 27
Utah (41) W 38 B 31
Tennessee (38) W 67 B 30
Northern Ill. (38) W 47 B 24
Louisville (35) W 53 B 27
Oklahoma (40) W 48 B 35
Memphis (40) W 59 B 29
Fresno St. (40) W 39 B 43
Texas (34) W 36 B 33
Texas-El Paso (34) W 34 B 38
Pittsburgh (31) W 48 B 21
Derrick Z. Jackson, an Op-ed writer for the Boston Globe does this article twice a year -- for bowl season and for March Madness. Maybe it just me, but I always find this schockingly entertaining or entertainingly shocking.
1 comment:
So if we "stop publishing these statistics that segregate races and genders and ages and income level," the problems goes away?
I knew I shouldn't have invited a Republican to my site. This is the same mentality of Bush firing economists that say his policies don't work and firing CIA people who say his Iraq policy is flawed.
21% of black football players graduating from Pitt should be noteworthy no matter what your politics are, or what your opinions on affirmative action are.
Of the 79% who don't get degrees form Pitt, maybe one (Larry Fitzgerald) plays in the NFL. What will the rest do? We could have a good argument about who's to blame --the players, the coaches, American education system, the NCAA, etc. I don't see the point of ignoring this, however.
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