Basketball Brainiacs
Sphere: Related ContentLooks like we’re about to put the myth of the “student” athlete to rest. At least at the University of Georgia. We now have the stats in for the graduation rates of NCAA Division 1 men’s teams, and UGA isn’t looking all that hot. Let’s go through the numbers:
- Football, Georgia is last in the Southeast Conference for graduation rates. Only 41% of football players who enrolled in the late 1990’s got a degree within six years.
- Baseball? Somewhat better. There we have a 48% graduation rate.
- Then there’s basketball. The graduation rate for The University of Georgia? Only 9%.
I think it’s safe to say that in the great pecking order of college and professional sports, basketball players are the the true “dumb jocks.” When you hear professional athletes interviewed, basketball players usually come out sounding the most illiterate.
Oh .. and how did rival Georgia Tech do? Tech beat Georgia in every sport. Forty-two percent of Tech basketball players from the same time period graduated. That’s 42% to 9%. In football it was 55% to 41%, and baseball was 65% to 48%.
National numbers? In Division one schools the average is 59% for basketball players.
So … can we put this “student athlete” moniker to rest now.
Oh … by the way. I didn’t graduate from Texas A&M within six years of entering either. In fact, I never graduated from undergraduate school at all. Yet I’m a lawyer, and not doing all that poorly. These studies just track graduation rates, they don’t track business success after school. So … maybe none of this really matters.
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