APR shows Capel was no Calhoun, much to OU's relief
Published: 5/25/2011 9:11 AM
Last Modified: 5/25/2011 2:13 PM
The NCAA released its latest Academic Progress Rate scores Tuesday. Big news to Navin Johnson. Big, and bad, news to Jim Calhoun, since his UConn Huskies lost two scholarships as a result of their substandard score.
(It can now be said that the reigning national basketball champion can’t shoot a lick, does poorly in the classroom, cheats, and has a coach who occasionally acts like a pit bull with a rash on its belly.)
To everyone else, it’s not that big a deal as long as you keep your score above 925. Do so, you avoid penalties like UConn’s.
To that end, Oklahoma is just fine. All 21 of OU’s scholarship sports finished safety above the cutline Tuesday. Women’s basketball and men’s gymnastics, in fact, scored a perfect 1,000.
The football program rang up a 960, second in the Big 12 Conference to Missouri’s 967. Men’s basketball scored a 959 to rank in the middle of the league pack. Not bad, when you consider the Sooners’ recent player turnover and the danger that creates for the team GPA.
Jeff Capel has taken considerable heat around here lately. What say we grant him this much: The program’s APR for 2005-06, Kelvin Sampson’s final year as coach, was 897. Under Capel, the Sooners’ rate climbed to 911, 926 and 948 before hitting the current 959.
-- Guerin Emig
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Guerin Emig
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