I knew I shouldn't have eaten that kicker -- kid was in the engineering school. Bare your teeth, NCAA:
Kansas football has taken another hit on scholarships and will lose two more for the 2008 season for failure to meet NCAA academic standards.Kansas is the second BCS school to take a hit from the NCAA's increasingly strict APR ("academic progress rate") standards -- last year Arizona lost four scholarships -- and is a harbinger of things to come. In January, the NCAA announced that 28 football and 70 basketball programs would suffer scholarship reductions.According to figures released by the school Monday, KU football had a four-year academic progress rate of 919 and had two players leave the program during the 2006-07 school year who were not in good academic standing.
Most of those will probably be smaller schools scrabbling for anyone vaguely qualified, but a brief review of schools in danger from the January post on this subject...
there are a number of major programs below the cutoff last year who were only spared because of the squad size adjustment: Texas A&M at 922, West Virginia at 924, Kansas at 918, South Carolina at 913, Oregon State at 913, Oregon at 912, South Florida at 910, and others....captures a number of major programs. Kansas knew it was under the gun and could only raise its APR by a single point, which bodes unwell for the Oregon schools and South Florida and the like. More hits are coming, and to top-25 schools.
