The NCAA released year-by-year Academic Progress Rates for schools since the start of the system in 2003 today. The purpose? To assign some responsibility to the coaches who lead those programs on the court and field, and in the classroom. John Pelphrey's teams at South Alabama and Arkansas have fallen below...
Read More Post a comment (7)The NCAA has released its latest Academic Progress Rate scores, and Arkansas' men's basketball program is safe from penalties — for now. The Razorbacks' 886 multi-year score dropped two points from last year, but an increase in the single-year score from 2007-2008 was enough to keep the NCAA off the athletic...
Read More Post a comment (1)Will Arkansas sign a player on the last day of the late signing period? We'll know soon enough as today is the final day of the late signing period for the 2010-11 season. Much like that search for an assistant coach (hey, remember that?), there's not much known at this point....
Read More Post a comment (5)Arkansas' 19 athletic programs are nowhere to be found this year among the top 10 percent of scores based on the multi-year Acadeic Progress Rate, according to the NCAA. The women's golf team had scored a perfect 1,000 the previous five years, earning NCAA Public Recognition Awards every year, but that...
Read More Post a comment (0)Arkansas Coach John Pelphrey has mentioned briefly before that the situation he entered at Arkansas was a tough one in 2007. The coach and Arkansas' administrators haven't shed much light on what precisely was broken behind the scenes, but Pelphrey did share some details Monday concerning the struggles he faced when...
Read More Post a comment (3)Kentucky may have been the most successful basketball school in the Southeastern Conference this season, but its performance in the classroom was anything but stellar. And Arkansas was not far ahead of the Wildcats, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader. Kentucky posted a 2.025 grade point average in the fall, which was the...
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