<p>I was going to say that high GPA = careful course selection, but the coach has already addressed comments like that from people like me:</p>
<p>Ryan was critical of those who attempted to diminish - or were skeptical of - his team's classroom achievements.....</p>
<p>"It's just stupid. It's just people who are petty and -holes. That's all. I just get tired of dealing with people like that," Ryan said.</p>
<p>It's easy to be a critic. It's hard to see the effort sometimes. What a good idea that is many years overdue.</p>
<p>I didn't see the actual average GPA mentioned in the article. I wonder why it was omitted. </p>
<p>Hopefully the individual players have high enough GPAs to have some good choices when they graduate.</p>
<p>It was 3.2 in Spring. The Fall numbers were soon to be officially announced so this was a "preview".</p>
<p>It's good to read news like this. The top basketball teams seem to be the biggest offenders in getting their athletes to graduate. I was appalled a few years ago when I saw some stats in the NYT about the graduation rate of the basketball teams as they were winding up the season. And there were some good schools that are academically strong overall listed with horrible results.</p>
<p>Time for my shameless plug about Bobby Knight and how good he was at getting the players graduated- especially before they were allowed to go pro before finishing college eligibility.</p>