It isss.... BC BALL!
BC runs over UMass in season opener
Related: Kicking Around UMass
They did it again.
"UMass football players struggle academically; Team skirts NCAA sanctions" by Matt Rocheleau | Globe Correspondent August 30, 2014
The University of Massachusetts Amherst football team has struggled not only on the field, but in the classroom as well, leaving it barely above the academic threshold to avoid sanctions from the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
However, school officials say they are confident that the squad’s next scholastic performance review will show improvement, staving off potential penalties, including the threat of losing eligibility to compete in any college playoffs.
“We know we’re going to satisfy compliance,” said athletic director John McCutcheon. “I really don’t have any qualms that we’re at risk of penalties.”
The NCAA uses a formula to evaluate the likelihood that players will graduate, and over the past few years, it has raised the standards teams must meet. Teams need to maintain a four-year average academic progress rate of 930 or above to avoid penalties.
The UMass team’s score sits at 932, which ranks near the bottom nationally among college football teams at the Division I level.
And the team still sucks!
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Although projections have shown that, even with improvements, the UMass football program will not be profitable until about 2020, the efforts have been seen as a key strategy for the university to try to boost its overall fund-raising, alumni loyalty, and the general profile of the school.
It's ALL about IMAGERY and ILLU$ION even at the in$titutions of higher learning!
But the team, which currently sits at the bottom of national FBS rankings, has struggled to attract crowds because of its abysmal play and the relocation of its home venue.
The university has faced calls from faculty, students, alumni, and taxpayers to stop the multimillion-dollar push to elevate its football program. Word of the team’s academic shortcomings prompted more concern....
Why the concern?
UMass is "just one of the schools that have struggled to keep pace as the NCAA has raised academic standards," and isn't a good football team worth the probe(?), er, price? Never you mind the never-ending, every second the gap gets greater wealth inequality driven my state fiscal policy and the resulting service cuts that fail to keep pace with inflation, etc, etc, etc.
Just sit down and watch the 21st-century gladiators play the game.
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Wasn't even on TV.
