UK's bball team's GPA just released

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Calipari's squad posts worst grades of UK teams | KentuckySports.com

The same Kentucky team that won the Southeastern Conference regular-season and post-season tournament championships had a cumulative grade-point average of 2.025 for the fall semester, according to records obtained by the Herald-Leader through an open records request. That was the worst of nine SEC schools that gave their men's basketball GPAs to the newspaper.

Among teams outside the SEC willing to provide their GPAs for the fall semester, Duke (3.01), Louisville (3.0) and Kansas (2.95) all outperformed Kentucky.

"I was disappointed," UK President Lee T. Todd Jr. said recently.
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I'd take bad GPA's for an SEC tournament title, considering they're almost all NBA players anyways.
 
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I mean, Derrick Rose couldn't even take the SATs, doesn't mean anything on the court.
 
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zach0105 said:
That's not the point. It's ridiculous these kids have the label of "student-athletes".
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Its ridiculous that students who want to go to the NBA have to attend a year of meaningless classes. It's stupid that players whose future depends on the NBA get ridiculed for not taking their classes seriously.
 
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tvolsfan said:
Its ridiculous that students who want to go to the NBA have to attend a year of meaningless classes. It's stupid that players whose future depends on the NBA get ridiculed for not taking their classes seriously.
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you know no one gets anywhere without a diploma. We should probably require them to get grad degrees too before letting them make any money

NCGatorBait said:
nobody cares about GPA's as long as you're winning...
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the NCAA does
 
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tvolsfan said:
Its ridiculous that students who want to go to the NBA have to attend a year of meaningless classes. It's stupid that players whose future depends on the NBA get ridiculed for not taking their classes seriously.
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This. If the NBA didn't have an age requirement in place then I suppose GPA's would be a legitimate gripe, but these kids have to go one and done.
 
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milohimself said:
This. If the NBA didn't have an age requirement in place then I suppose GPA's would be a legitimate gripe, but these kids have to go one and done.
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And I suppose it is too much to ask that a respectable university only admit guys who don't sign their names with a big 'X'. I'd much prefer to emulate Duke and Kansas on this issue.
 
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CardassianVol said:
And I suppose it is too much to ask that a respectable university only admit guys who don't sign their names with a big 'X'. I'd much prefer to emulate Duke and Kansas on this issue.
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Why? It's not like they have college basketball for educational purposes.
 
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CardassianVol said:
And I suppose it is too much to ask that a respectable university only admit guys who don't sign their names with a big 'X'. I'd much prefer to emulate Duke and Kansas on this issue.
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if sports weren't multi-million dollar operations then you might have a point. Now if they would wise up and not force kids that have no interest in school to attend class then GPAs might matter
 
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utvolpj said:
if sports weren't multi-million dollar operations then you might have a point. Now if they would wise up and not force kids that have no interest in school to attend class then GPAs might matter
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I wonder what would happen if they changed the rules so that players who were drafted couldn't hurt the teams GPA as far as scholarships and graduation rates goes, regardless of their academic standing. I'm sure someone who understands the system better could probably tell me whether or not that makes sense. If the coach gets a player into the NBA, he's helped the kid enough that he doesn't have to get criticized for their grades.
 
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The NCAA would never allow that.

Basically it's a permanent catch-22 for programs. The NBA probably isn't going to budge on their age limit (I'm still not sure why it even exists) and the NCAA won't do anything to take away academic standards. Just another part of how this 19 year old rule has screwed up the college game.
 
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tvolsfan said:
Why? It's not like they have college basketball for educational purposes.
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If you play college basketball, you are there for educational purposes by rule. The scholarships are given to attain an education not lottery pick status. In practice, not so much...

utvolpj said:
if sports weren't multi-million dollar operations then you might have a point. Now if they would wise up and not force kids that have no interest in school to attend class then GPAs might matter
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It is an NBA rule that "forces" them to attend college. If the NCAA wasn't so corrupt and driven only by profit then they might care that the system is being abused. The NCAA should punish schools that abuse the term student athlete more severely than they currently do. If the NBA would just send these guys to the D league for a year then the problem would be solved. Of course, they don't want those teams outdrawing some of their NBA teams.
 
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tvolsfan said:
I wonder what would happen if they changed the rules so that players who were drafted couldn't hurt the teams GPA as far as scholarships and graduation rates goes, regardless of their academic standing. I'm sure someone who understands the system better could probably tell me whether or not that makes sense. If the coach gets a player into the NBA, he's helped the kid enough that he doesn't have to get criticized for their grades.
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Because then they would have to admit that they have become an official minor league system of the NBA and give up pretending that academics are important when we all know that all they care about is money in their own pockets.
 
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I eventually see the one-and-dones heading to play a year in Europe even though the first few haven't worked out great.

Personally, I wish the NBA would put a little more into the developmental league. In addition I wish they would drop the one year requirement and the NCAA institute a 2 or 3 year commitment like in baseball.

I know it's fantasy land stuff and will never happen, but alas I can dream. I think it would help both sides out tremendously.
 
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tigervol9802 said:
I eventually see the one-and-dones heading to play a year in Europe even though the first few haven't worked out great.

Personally, I wish the NBA would put a little more into the developmental league. In addition I wish they would drop the one year requirement and the NCAA institute a 2 or 3 year commitment like in baseball.

I know it's fantasy land stuff and will never happen, but alas I can dream. I think it would help both sides out tremendously.
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I say they do this or just let them go straight from high school. It doesn't make sense to make them go a year when they don't want to. I also think that if they are going to have that rule in place then the schools that live on the one and dones (ex: Kentucky) shouldn't be punished at all.
 
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tvolsfan said:
Its ridiculous that students who want to go to the NBA have to attend a year of meaningless classes. It's stupid that players whose future depends on the NBA get ridiculed for not taking their classes seriously.
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This.

What else is there to say? You can't judge schools GPA scores with any kind of straight face with the current system.
 
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