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Originally Posted by BillyMac
I've heard this also. I've heard the same thing about interscholastic sports. I'd love to get some proof of this. If this could be proven, it would sure make me feel better about student-athletes being both students and athletes.
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All you have to do is find the graduation rates of any school and compare them to the athletic programs. In most cases at major universities, the athlete’s graduation rates tend to be higher. Of course some schools are better than others. Also the way NCAA computes graduation rates is also misleading. They do not account for JUCO transfers that graduate from the institution they transferred to. The rates only include athletes that come into school as freshman and graduate in a certain period of time (which I believe is 5 years). If they come back and graduate like Shaq did at LSU or Vince Carter did at North Carolina.
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