Putting the STUDENT in Student Athlete

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It's all well and good to talk about academics. Nebraska walks the walk:

Seventy Football Players Named to Big 12 Honor Roll
Seventy members of the Nebraska football team have been named to the Big 12 Commissioner's Fall Academic Honor Roll. The honor roll includes all student-athletes who a 3.0 grade-point average or better during the 2010 fall semester.

The group of football players is among 358 overall honorees in the Nebraska athletic department for the fall semester.

The group is led by 25 football players who have been named to the team four or more times, including six student-athletes who have been named to the honor roll seven times. That group includes safety Austin Cassidy, defensive end Tyrone Fahie, tight end Ryan Hill, kicker Adi Kunalic, linebacker Blake Lawrence, offensive lineman Luke Lingenfelter and tight end Jay Martin.

Six players were also recognized for completing the fall semester with a 4.0 grade-point average. Those players included Austin Cassidy, defensive end Pierre Allen, linebacker Sean Fisher, defensive backs Josh Mitchell and Rickey Thenarse and fullback C.J. Zimmerer.

Overall, Nebraska athletics had 43 student-athletes honored with a 4.0 grade-point average for the semester.
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How does that stack up against the rest of the big XII, or even the country? Knapplc your assignment if you choose to accept it! ;)

 
eoltmer said:
How does that stack up against the rest of the big XII, or even the country? Knapplc your assignment if you choose to accept it! ;)
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considering we lead the country in academic all americans...i'd say its probably pretty darn high. wasnt okie lite only graduating like 60 percent of its football players there for awhile? the big 12 as a whole doesnt have the best academic track record for high-profiles sports student athletes.

 
NU's academic program for the football team is unsurpassed. They cover every angle within the rules to make sure nobody slips through the cracks and becomes academically ineligible. Tutoring for any class. People monitoring their grades, their homework, even their attendance. If a player misses too many classes--for example, oversleeps in the morning--a tutor is sent to his house before class to roust him out of bed and "eyeball" him into the classroom. A football player can only fail if he really tries to fail.

 
It would be interesting to see what the course-load of the 4.0 students looks like.

 
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eoltmer said:
How does that stack up against the rest of the big XII, or even the country? Knapplc your assignment if you choose to accept it! ;)
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That's a good question. I would imagine it would be difficult to find out. I'm sure many programs don't publish this kind of information, because frankly they probably have very little to be proud of academically.

Judoka - that's a good question.

 
kyle sibert said:
Why are we so low on this list?

Forbes
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I was curious so I started to look at what goes into those rankings. Especially when I saw a college like Drake below NU.

No. 1: Student Satisfaction (27.5%)

Want to increase the rank - tell students to go to ratemyprofessor.com and myplan.com - those ranking account for 22.5% of the score. The remaining 5% is freshman-sophomore retention rates.

No. 2: Postgraduate Success (30%) This is probably one where we would get killed on. They measure postgraduate success based on things like salary, and who's who in America. Because a large percentage of graduates remain local, their pay compared to a graduate of say University of New York is going to be dramatically different. The average grad student might be making 90k in the midwestern states NU tends to populate, but 150k in New York.

No. 3: Student Debt (17.5%) Cost isn't that extreme a NU. They have it set at 28k. Which puts us around #350 in that list.

There are a few others, but I think the major kicker that is gong to drop Nebraska dramatically is the salary calculations. Hopefully no one takes offense to this, but it's a fact that you are going to make less working in Lincoln/Omaha than in New York/LA. You don't see a cost of living factor in the rankings do you? Since a large percentage of graduates locate within 200 miles of the universty after gradation this should be a factor as well IMO.

 
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