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Thursday, October 28, 2010 | The Red a Black
GRAD: Football rates second-best in SEC
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four-year average of the freshmen
classes of student-athletes in 2000,
2001, 2002 and 2003.
The system undertook a major
change this year, incorporating incom
ing and outgoing transfer student-ath
letes into an athletic program’s rate.
With transfers included, the NCAA
evaluates around 105,000 student-ath
letes around the country.
The QSR national average for
Division I athletic programs came in at
79 percent equaling the 2009 aver
age.
“If you ask people what their per
ception is of student-athletes versus
general students, they say they’re not
doing as well,” NCAA president Mark
Emmert said in a teleconference. “But
the reality is they’re doing Just as
well.”
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ing revenue-generating sports.
Georgia's two main revenue-gener
ating sports football and basketball
followed the national trend.
Football saw a dramatic rise in its
graduation rate, improving from 57
percent to 68 percent. Although the
2010 rate still ranks below the national
average of 69 percent for Football Bowl
Subdivision football programs, the
Bulldogs feature the second-highest
graduation rate In the Southeastern
Conference behind only Vanderbilt.
Florida, Alabama and LBU each
ranked behind the Bulldogs at 67 per
cent, while Tennessee earned a confer
ence-worst 53 percent.
The Bulldogs’ basketball program
saw a dramatic rise in its GSR, logging
its highest-ever rate of 36 percent.
Though still falling below the national
average for Division I programs, the
score is a significant improvement
upon the program’s 19 percent in 2007,
SPORTS _
23 percent in 2008 and 18 percent in
2010. However, only the basketball pro
grams at Auburn and Arkansas ranked
lower in the SEC.
Overall, eight competitive sports at
the University improved their GSR in
2010.
In addition, three Georgia sports
boasted a 100 percent graduation rate
men’s swimming and diving, gym
nastics and women’s tennis. Each of
the three teams led the conference in
their respective sports.
McGarity, who officially took charge
of the athletic program in September,
was pleased with his program’s prog
ress, but made clear he expects further
strides in the classroom for all sports.
“The improvement by eight of our
sports as well as the three that
remained at 100 percent is particularly
noteworthy. At the same time, we want
to get better and will continue to work
hard In the academic area with our
student-athletes.”
Riurth&Rirever
The only prediction that actually matters.
Kind of.
University of Georgia
Passing Yards: 278
Rushing Yards: 242
Total Offense: 520
Turnovers: 1
Passing touchdowns: 0
Rushing touchdowns: 4
3rd Down Conversions: 6-11
Variety Editor’s Take
Florida
I figured instead of writ
ing this the night before
publication like we typical
ly do, I’d go ahead and
tackle it while I’m filming.
On one hand, I’m happy
Georgia won. If our predic
tion pulls any weight with
the football gods, then it'll
be a good week to be a
Bulldog.
On the other hand, !(a#s.
When it boils down to it,
Dillard is simply a beast at
this game. It's hard to get
angry at his playcalls since
the only thing floating
around in that tan, blond
haired head of his is foot
ball statistics and Weight
Watcher points.
But when I go to kick
an extra point, I fully
expect for it to go in. The
entire process of an extra
point is right joystick
down, right joystick up.
Now I understand this
was by no means a one
point game. But at that
point, it would have been a
seven-point game.
And in my angry, cloud
ed state, my football
morale was shot.
Walsh’s recent handicap
toward kicking is now infil
trating the pixelated world
of NCAA 2011.
Didn’t realize he had
that much power, did you?
Down two possessions
with three minutes left in
the game, going for it on
fourth down, I managed to
throw it down the field to a
completely open Demps.
Did he catch it, allowing
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68% 36% Gymnastics, men’s
swimming, women's tennis
Alabama 67% 75% Women's golf, women's
soccer, softbal, women’s
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Passing Yards: 406
Rushing Yards: 53
Total Offense: 459
Turnovers: 3
Passing touchdowns: t
Rushing touchdowns: 2
3rd Down Conversions: 3-9
Joe
Williams
US (3-6)
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me two minutes to fight
back and score the win
ning touchdown? Nope.
At this point in the sea
son, with my standings sig
nificantly worse off than
Dillards, It's time to re
evaluate my game plan.
The easiest option is
simply killing him off.
Rachel G. Bowers, assis
tant editor of the lovely
First & Goal football sec
tion you just read or
should read would easily
be his replacement.
And I feel in these ficti
tious circumstances, I’d be
able to pull off a win.
However, Operation:
Dismantle Dillard comes
with its difficulties.
First off, certain girls in
the newsroom would no
longer be able to stalk him
around, breathing all heavy.
Although production
would most certainly go up,
depression would certainly
kick in when anyone crav
ing some Backstreet Boys
tunes couldn’t get their fix
via Dillard's laptop.
You think I’m kidding.
I think it’s obvious I
won’t be able to just off the
ol’ sports nut.
That would involve
some time behind bars,
and this isn’t real Georgia
football.
I’ll just have to beat him
at his own game.
CONFERENCE GSR
NCAA Football 11
Georgia 42, Florida 22
Editor’s note: It is war
between sports and variety.
The rules are simple: each
week we will flip a coin to
designate who will repre
sent our beautiful universi
ty in NCAA 2011.
Seven-minute quarters
and updates roster changes
will set the table for our
epic full-season battle.
Though it may seem the
two editors are disguising
their friendship with a
false bravado of hatred
they are not. It is all true.
Stay tuned each Friday
for the latest installment of
the virtual bloodbath
between the hedges.
ZACH
JP Dillard
(6-3)
Sports Editor’s Take
Georgia
For starters, do not let
the design of this page fool
you my stature does not
sit below our despised
variety editor.
In fact, at the moment,
the sports department
stands towering head and
shoulders over that other
place. You know, the one
that no one pays attention
to.
Towering over that vari
ety punk, both in terms of
record and public appreci
ation, feels gratifying to
say the least. But that’s
what comes with hard
fought wins you tower
over your opponent.
That’s what happens
when you sport a 6-3
record. That’s what hap
pens when Joe is sent run
ning to his computer to
scribble down his column
while the tears are still
seeping from the comers
of his eyes.
That’s what happens
when a sports editor is
able to brush off every
form of trash talk as a joke
like witnessing a little
kid trying to tackle Carlton
Thomas.
Wait, bad example.
Carlton finds ways to tack
le himself.
Hearing Joe make
threats about his “sure-to
come victories” around the
office is equivalent to wit
nessing any other Bulldog
on special teams claim
they are going to beat
Blake Sailors to the ball.
Not happening.
And yes, that was a
shout-out to Sailors.
Although he did not
provide much assistance
to me in our virtual battles
how was NCAA 2011
supposed to know about
him until this year? I
still feel it is appropriate to
mention and relate his
successes on the field to
mine on the video game.
It may not correlate too
well, but if I was as fast as
Sailors, I sure wouldn’t be
trying to write or relate
anything at this moment.
I digress.
The moral of the story
Is that if you are better at
video games than your
enemy or as fast as
Blake Sailors in real life -
then you will have the
same type of success as we
each have had on our
respective fields of play.
And if not, well you still
have a shot at beating the
3-6 Joseph Williams.