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Friday, October 25, 2013

Report: Berkeley drops ball on athlete graduation rate

From the San Jose Mercury-News:

The No. 1 public university in the country has the least success graduating players among the 72 teams in the major football-playing conferences, according to NCAA data released Thursday. Just 44 percent of Cal's football players graduated within the parameters established by the NCAA. For comparison, archrival Stanford is among the national leaders at 93 percent; state school neighbor San Jose State checked in at 51 percent.  Nor is football the only Cal team struggling to graduate players. While many sports are performing well, men's basketball posted a Graduation Success Rate of 38 percent -- the fourth-lowest among teams in the major conferences...

Full story at http://www.mercurynews.com/sports/ci_24383075/cal-football-team-struggling-classroom-too

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