Top 10 Football Grad Rates: Division I-A

Top 10 Football Grad Rates: Division I-A
Navy 95%
Notre Dame 94%
Stanford 93%
Boston College 92%
Duke 92%
Northwestern 92%
Vanderbilt 91%
Air Force 90%
Army 87%
Wake Forest 83%
Miami (Ohio) 83%

Note: For those wondering, USC came in at 54% while Florida graduated 68% of its student athletes.

For those interested in more than the score, these off field statistics highlight the myth of the student-athlete. Unfortunately, we will ever hear this story from the talking heads at ESPN.

2008 Football Graduation Success Rates for both teams:

Florida — 68%
Oklahoma — 46%

AP Top 25
1. LSU (60) 12-2 1,620
2. Georgia (3) 11-2 1,515
3. USC (1) 11-2 1,500
4. Missouri 12-2 1,347
5. Ohio State 11-2 1,346
6. West Virginia 11-2 1,342
7. Kansas (1) 12-1 1,303
8. Oklahoma 11-3 1,139
9. Virginia Tech 11-3 1,096
10. Texas 10-3 962
10. Boston College 11-3 962
12. Tennessee 10-4 904
13. Florida 9-4 685
14. Brigham Young 11-2 654
15. Auburn 9-4 648
16. Arizona State 10-3 587
17. Cincinnati 10-3 566
18. Michigan 9-4 508
19. Hawaii 12-1 460
20. Illinois 9-4 443
21. Clemson 9-4 353
22. Texas Tech 9-4 308
23. Oregon 9-4 253
24. Wisconsin 9-4 202
25. Oregon State 9-4 110

Given ND’s season, I checked out pretty early on. There is always next year.

The best football call ever.

Barry Bonds, baseball’s home run steroid king, was indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice. According to the indictment, Bonds denied taking steroids when prosecutors showed him the results of a test from November 2000 that showed a “Barry B” testing positive for two types of steroids.

In the end, there is no way the Fed would charge Bonds without having an open and shut case. Although some are saying this is a sad day for baseball, I actually feel it’s cathartic and will enable MLB to put in end to the steriod era.

Notre Dame’s SOS ranks the second most difficult in the country.

Some other notables:

Ohio State – 2nd to last

Boston College – 5th to last

USC – 7th to last

AP Top 20 teams in the Top 20 strength of schedule wise – NONE.

NO ONE in the Top 10 strength of schedule has more than 1 win.

“Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.” –Lou Holtz

The ball Barry Bonds hit for his record-breaking 756th home run will be branded with an asterisk and sent to the Baseball Hall of Fame by Marc Ecko the fashion designer who purchased it for $750,000.

Ecko did the right thing while receiving an immeasurable amount of pr. Very clever!

Listed are the national rankings for boys youth (U11) soccer. Here’s the Top 10.

1 – Team Ohio FC Cosmos (Dublin, OH)
2 – Real So Cal Blue (Westlake Village, CA)
3 – Solar Red 97 (Dallas, TX)
4 – Livingston Lions (Livingston, NJ)
5 – FC Dallas South (Dallas, TX)
6 – Manhattan Kickers 96 (New York, NY)
7 – Chicago Fire Juniors (Naperville, IL)
8 – SCC Breakers 96 White (Santa Cruz, CA)
9 – PDA Keane (Zarephath, NJ)
10 – Metro United – Rosenberg (Edwardsville, IL)

* The Kickers played Ohio FC last year in the Jefferson Cup and came out on top (1-0).

Ouch … The New York Times sumed it up today with their article Two Proud Programs and Coaches Are at a Loss . Who wins? For the first time since I started watching ND football, I don’t really care.

I guess I can always fall back on my alma mater, Go Stanford!