Boston College Football (ranked #11 this week!)

Check out this article in the Cincinnati Enquirer about the Boston College football coach:

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051014/SPT01/510140417/1063/SPT&template=printpicart


Its rare for an article on college football to mention academics, but this article mentions how BC got an award for having the highest graduation rate among D-1 football teams (100%!). Football commentators are not doing their job if they do not mention this in the broadcast of every single BC game.

Graduating student athletes must seem like a strange concept to the people of Cincinnati: the University of Cincinnati's football and basketball teams routinely graduate no one. Maybe the basketball players graduate to more advanced felony and assualt charges during their tenure with the program. That should count for something in the eyes of the NCAA, i guess.

With all the bad publicly the NCAA gets for scandals and off-the-field antics of its more dubious stars, why isn't the NCAA hyping programs like BC? Maybe more attention on which school has the highest grad rate (and other academic achievements) might make this more of a point of pride for programs. Likewise, more attention on those that never graduate anyone might shame some programs into improving. Oh wait - doing that might reduce the revenue of the NCAA, and then some bowls might not be able to give all the players new DVD players.......