<p>Odd considering Cal’s roster reports 2 seniors. Neither of whom are AA.</p>
<p>hellothere5, to be clear, the NCAA data in question is regarding 6-year graduation rates for players in the recent past, not necessarily players still on the roster today. Nor does “graduation success rate”, as defined by the NCAA, necessarily have to do with graduation per se (and yes, the original news report that instigated this thread is misleading), but rather with players who leave in “good” academic standing, regardless of whether they actually graduate. </p>
<p><a href=“https://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/inst2011/107.pdf[/url]”>https://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/inst2011/107.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href=“https://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/inst2010/107.pdf[/url]”>https://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/inst2010/107.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href=“https://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/inst2009/107.pdf[/url]”>https://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/inst2009/107.pdf</a></p>
<p>[Graduation</a> Success Rate - NCAA.org](<a href=“http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/NCAA/Academics/Division+I/Graduation+Success+Rate]Graduation”>http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/NCAA/Academics/Division+I/Graduation+Success+Rate)</p>
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This year’s seniors Jorge Gutierrez and Harper Kamp both completed their degrees, and Jorge is now on the Denver Nuggets summer league team.</p>
<p>Cal Basketball has had a lot of players transfer to other schools in the last couple of seasons for playing time and disciplinary reasons. I’m not sure how transfers are factored into the NCAA grad rate calculations, perhaps someone can clarify.</p>
<p>Cal Basketball’s APR academic progress ratings have been good under Coach Montgomery, with scores of 1000/1000 for 2009-10 and 977/1000 for 2010-11. The CBS article fails to mention what year the the latest 6-year federal graduation rate was calculated from and how many Black athletes did not graduate in that year. The team roster only has around 13-15 players so that information would be helpful in assessing the situation.</p>
<p>@humanx
Men’s basketball and football are revenue sports so athlete scholarships and program costs are self-funded from ticket/media revenues and donations. However, the leftover proceeds from the revenue sports have to be used to fund the rest of the Cal sports that run at a deficit and are non-revenue. Accordingly, the Cal Athletic Department has recently run a several million dollar deficit each year because there are 27 varsity sports altogether. This is also the reason several sports were cut last year, but all were eventually reinstated after enough donation money was received.</p>
<p>Thus the athletic department itself does not directly contribute to any academic programs, as it has been running at a deficit. It could be argued that having successful Cal athletic programs help to bring in more private donations to the academic side of things as well, but I don’t know of a way to quantify that statement. </p>
<p>Hopefully the increased money that will start coming in next year from the new PAC-12 media contract will help the athletic department become more financially self-sustaining. If you are still looking, here is a link to the the yearly financial statements of the athletic department: [California</a> Golden Bears - Athletics News](<a href=“http://www.calbears.com/genrel/financialdata.html]California”>http://www.calbears.com/genrel/financialdata.html)</p>
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<p>“The Graduation Success Rate also allows institutions to exclude from the computation student-athletes who leave their institutions before graduation, so long as they would have been academically eligible to compete had they remained.”</p>
<p>[Graduation</a> Success Rate - NCAA.org](<a href=“http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/NCAA/Academics/Division+I/Graduation+Success+Rate]Graduation”>http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/NCAA/Academics/Division+I/Graduation+Success+Rate)</p>
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<p>I believe that the argument is that most of them will not become successful professional athletes, and so will need an academic credential to support themselves properly. </p>
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<p>You mean like the taxpayers funding the banking industry in 2008? </p>
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<p>Whether it needs to be or not, the fact is, it is not, and I think that’s the point. The politicians of California have demonstrated repeatedly that they are simply unwilling to provide robust, stable funding for Berkeley, but would rather divert that funding to other priorities. I believe that the share of Berkeley state funding as a percentage of total university expenditures is at its lowest level in decades. Can you then blame Berkeley for seeking alternative sources of funding wherever it can?</p>