Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Keeping an eye on the cut line - Sac Bee
...The NCAA is scheduled to release the latest Academic Progress Rate today in the boldest announcement yet for a plan that already was revolutionary: the results, for the first time, come with penalties.

Gone are the days when the substandard merely had to endure public ridicule, the way some 400 of 5,720 Division I teams did when scores initially were distributed last February. Flunking this time - falling below the cut line of 925 points out of 1,000 - could mean the loss of scholarships, and, therefore, conceivably lead to coaches being fired for so dramatically injuring their program...

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