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Interesting article in the weekend edition of the WSJ. The article talked about how the NCAA is making grade requirements more strict so that coaches are no longer drinking from the JUCO well- and some coaches that have routinely recruited JUCO's in the past are making it a policy to no longer continue the process.
The NCAA monitors each school's APR- Academic Performance Rate, and according to Hartford President Walter Harrison, who is chair of the NCAA committee on academic performance states that the initiative has accomplished what it has intended to do- as aggregate APR scores have been "imrpoving" and this initiative provides transparency for the schools so each team know where they need to make necessary changes to improve grades.
The article also discusses how this negatively effects the JUCO schools, basketball attendance has decreased along with revenues, obviously.
The article drew the conclusion that since colleges can no longer go after the potentially more talented players because of their lower grades- therefore the overall quality of the team will suffer because they will be taking the other kid with the higher scores, which I found interesting because I disagree. Just because a kid has better gradesdoesn't make him a worse basketball player.
Additionally, the article also states that while JUCOs are no longer getting the kids without the required grades for admittance, more kids have been enrolling in prep shools and have other alternatives in different professional leagues if school is not an option (Euro, USBL, CBA, NBDL, etc).
Since college coaches no longer recruit at JUCOs, the prospective recruits just enroll at prep school, basically circumventing the process while the JUCOs suffer.
I have noticed more and more players enrolling in prep school as opposed to junior college the last few years, and this article really explained why this is.
Thoughts? Anyone else read it?
The NCAA monitors each school's APR- Academic Performance Rate, and according to Hartford President Walter Harrison, who is chair of the NCAA committee on academic performance states that the initiative has accomplished what it has intended to do- as aggregate APR scores have been "imrpoving" and this initiative provides transparency for the schools so each team know where they need to make necessary changes to improve grades.
The article also discusses how this negatively effects the JUCO schools, basketball attendance has decreased along with revenues, obviously.
The article drew the conclusion that since colleges can no longer go after the potentially more talented players because of their lower grades- therefore the overall quality of the team will suffer because they will be taking the other kid with the higher scores, which I found interesting because I disagree. Just because a kid has better gradesdoesn't make him a worse basketball player.
Additionally, the article also states that while JUCOs are no longer getting the kids without the required grades for admittance, more kids have been enrolling in prep shools and have other alternatives in different professional leagues if school is not an option (Euro, USBL, CBA, NBDL, etc).
Since college coaches no longer recruit at JUCOs, the prospective recruits just enroll at prep school, basically circumventing the process while the JUCOs suffer.
I have noticed more and more players enrolling in prep school as opposed to junior college the last few years, and this article really explained why this is.
Thoughts? Anyone else read it?