Does anyone have stats regarding the major schools in college football and basketball and their percentage of players who graduate and the percentage of their players who actually make money as a pro? +++++++++++ 08-19-04, 11:06 PM coldfuse Interesting question - and here's half of your answer. The data are exhaustive:
All students - 59% Student-athletes - 62% Male athletes - 55% Female athletes - 70% Men's Football - 54% Men's Basketball - 44%
Some sites suggest that less than 1% of college athletes become professional athletes, but I have yet to find anything definitive.
I wonder how many make money doing something related such as coaching at a high school, becoming a trainer or related endeavors where their education and career may have been inspired by a sports interest.
"There are nearly 1 million high-school football players and about 550,000 basketball players. Of that number, about 250 make it to the NFL and about 50 make an NBA team.
Less than 3 percent of college seniors will play one year in professional basketball.
The odds of a high-school football player making it to the pros at all--let alone having a career--are about 6,000 to 1; the odds for a high-school basketball player--10,000 to 1."
08-20-04, 06:11 PM DorianGreyed Thanks, Fuse.
03-10-05, 10:40 AM DorianGreyed Time.com Basketball UConn 27% graduated from the school Kentucky 8% graduation rate Texas 27%
"The president of the NCAA unveiled last week the most aggressive athletic-reform measures in decades. For the first time, schools whose athletes don't meet a new minimum academic standard--roughly equivalent to a 50% graduation rate--stand to lose scholarships and risk harsher sanctions down the road such as being barred from lucrative post-season play."
---------------------------------------- I don't think that a 50% grduation rate for athletes on scholarships is requiring too much.
Note: A friend just told me that North Carolina graduates 100% of its basketball players, but he didn't give me a source.
03-11-05, 11:15 AM juanruiz
quote: A friend just told me that North Carolina graduates 100% of its basketball players, but he didn't give me a source.
Pardon my cynicism, but there is a difference between graduating athletes and them earning a degree.
03-11-05, 11:50 AM DorianGreyed Good point, JR. One of the schools with the poor graduatoins rate has a class in which the following question is asked: How much is a 3 point shot worth?
03-17-05, 08:12 AM DorianGreyed 42 tourney teams graduated less than half Two men’s teams, LSU and Minnesota, failed to graduate even one basketball player, according to numbers supplied by the 2004 NCAA Graduation Rates Report. Two No. 1 seeds — Illinois (47 percent) and Washington (45 percent) — graduated less than half its players. Bucknell and Utah State both graduated 100 percent, but only four other schools topped 70 percent.
04-09-05, 11:21 PM coldfuse Hate to be a bother several weeks beyond discussion, and REALLY hate to detrat from a fabulous UNC statistic, but a 100% Carolina graduation rate is not supported by the NCAA site.
Do note that several distingished UNC players have returned during the summers to finish their diploma requirements after leaving early for the NBA - Michael Jordan among them. If it takes them longer than 2 or 3 summers, then my understanding is that the NCAA stats will not count them as having graduated (within the 6 year allotted time frame).
04-10-05, 12:32 AM DorianGreyed First of all, kudos to your team, Fuse.
I'm sorry to read that the 100% rate is not accurate. In my opinion (and probably mine alone), a 100% graduation rate says more about the team and the coaches than any national championship.
04-10-05, 10:44 PM coldfuse 97.3% of Dean Smith's lettermen graduated; I think that's about as good as things get.
The several that I have had the pleasure of knowing are top drawer professionals.
Coach K at Duke will not hang a championship banner until all members of that team graduate.
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