🏈 Alabama football one of 12 Tide programs with perfect 2013-14 academic report

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Alabama’s football program was considered among the nation’s elite on the field between 2013-14.

It turns out the Tide were potentially even better in the classroom, representing one of 12 Alabama athletic programs to post perfect 1,000 single-year APRs for the 2013-14 academic term when the NCAA released its latest Academic Progress Rate report today.

All 21 of Alabama’s athletic programs were well above the national cutoff standard of 930, especially in multi-year APR, with gymnastics, men’s cross country, and men’s and women’s golf posting perfect 1,000s in both multi-year and single-year APR.

The Tide football program jumped three points from a year ago and featured the SEC’s second-highest multi-year APR at 978, two points higher than two-time Eastern Division champion Missouri and five points below Vanderbilt. It’s the second time in the last three years that Alabama football scored a 978.

Alabama’s men’s basketball team posted a 974 to rank sixth in the conference and also featured the school’s second lowest average, ahead of only women’s basketball (973), both of which were still well above the cutoff.

Only four programs saw a decline in both multi-year and single-year APR, the most significant being women’s basketball, which saw its 2013-14 APR drop to 931, just one point above the national standard to avoid a postseason ban.

Women’s basketball’s single-year APR dropped significantly from 982 to 931 in the last year.

Thirteen of the 21 sports saw increases from a year ago, including a significant jump by men’s tennis, which scored a perfect 1,000 APR for 2013-14 after seeing its single-year APR fall to 941 in 2012-13.

According to the NCAA, the APR holds institutions accountable for the academic progress of their student-athletes through a team-based metric that accounts for the eligibility and retention of each student-athlete for each academic term.






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The NCAA released Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores for the 2013-14 academic year Wednesday.

Twelve Alabama teams, including football, had perfect one-year scores of 1,000.

The majority of the Tide's 21 teams were well above the national cut-off standard of 930.

"I am very pleased with our continuing success when it comes to APR scores," Alabama athletic director Bill Battle said in a statement. "I feel they serve as a great indicator of the success we are enjoying here at The University of Alabama in terms of our primary mission to recruit and develop student-athletes to compete at the highest levels in intercollegiate athletics, to educate and prepare our student-athletes to compete at the highest levels in life after graduation and to accomplish all this with honor and integrity."

Women's basketball had the lowest score among Alabama teams (930).

The NCAA implemented APRs in 2003. As described on the NCAA website, it "holds institutions accountable for the academic progress of their student-athletes through a team-based metric that accounts for the eligibility and retention of each student-athlete for each academic term."

Alabama's football team's multi-year APR of 978 was second-best among SEC football teams.

The multi-year score is generated using information from the last four academic years.

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[BamaFan334]

I wonder why Women's Basketball came in last? Women's sports usually kick butt when it comes to grades.