JOCKS' GRAD RATES LAG: UGA is 'disappointed' with the number of athletes who failed to score a diploma. And though Tech fared better, the Jackets aren't bragging Main Edition

[Damon Evans] said Georgia is doing better with its current athletes than it did with athletes who enrolled in the 1990s, before football coach Mark Richt and men's basketball coach Dennis Felton arrived. Eleven Bulldogs basketball players did count, and only Badi Oliver graduated, Georgia athl...

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Published inThe Atlanta journal-constitution
Main Author MIKE KNOBLER, CARTER STRICKLAND
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Atlanta, Ga Atlanta Journal Constitution, LLC 28.09.2006
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Athletes
College graduates
College sports
Statistics
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ISSN1539-7459

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Summary:[Damon Evans] said Georgia is doing better with its current athletes than it did with athletes who enrolled in the 1990s, before football coach Mark Richt and men's basketball coach Dennis Felton arrived. Eleven Bulldogs basketball players did count, and only Badi Oliver graduated, Georgia athletics department spokesman Tim Hix said. One of the players on the list: Tony Cole, whose allegations of rules violations triggered the scandal that led to the resignation of coach Jim Harrick and NCAA sanctions against Georgia. Cole, who was a junior college freshman in 1999, transferred to Georgia. Schools do not calculate the graduation success rate for non- athletes. The only way to compare athletes' graduation rate with non- athletes' would be to use the federal graduation rate figures, which the NCAA argues are inaccurate because they treat all students who transfer to other schools as non-graduates, regardless of the reasons they transfer or whether they earn a degree from their new school.
ISSN:1539-7459