Graduating Student Athletes. It's something that every coach and Athletic Director wants.
The NCAA uses its own measure, the Graduation Success Rate (GSR), which accounts for students who transfer into an institution or who transfer out in good academic standing and is therefore higher than the federal rate.
**Also keep in mind that these numbers are for those student-athletes who entered school in 2000 and would have graduated in 2003.
So how do Georgia State's sports match up from this time frame? See below (the higher number the better).
Overall in 2010: 72 (up 3 from 2009)
Individual Sports:
Women's Golf - 100
Volleyball - 100
Women's Track - 93 (up 13 from 2009)
Men's Tennis - 90 (first non-100 since 1998 which basically means 1 player didn't graduate)
Men's Track & Field - 89 (same as 2009)
Women's Basketball - 86 (down 7 from 2009)
Softball - 85 (up 5 from 2009)
Women's Soccer - 80 (up 9 from 2009)
Women's Tennis - 71 (down 7 from 2009)
Men's Soccer - 61 (up 3 from 2009)
Baseball - 46 (down 6 from 2009)
Men's Golf - 38 (down 12 from 2009)
Men's Basketball - 36 (up 3 from 2009)
NCAA GSR Link
My take: It should be no shock that our men's basketball team is the worst on the list. They rarely graduated under Coach Driesell and Coach Perry. Coach Barnes has done a phenomenal job as he's graduated every player that exhausted his eligibility from 2007-Present.
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