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Wednesday

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June 2012

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Hampton, North Carolina A&T, Texas Southern Football Banned from Postseason

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Hampton University and North Carolina A&T State University were today announced as two prominent HBCU football programs banned from postseason play in the 2012-13 academic year. The MEAC schools join Texas Southern University as three HBCU football casualties claimed by the NCAA’s stronger academic progress requirements.

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Tuesday

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May 2012

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NCAA Must Act in Good Faith With Increased Academic Support Funding for HBCUs

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Alcorn State yesterday announced its new head football coach, former University of Memphis defensive coordinator Jay Hopson. Hopson, the first white head coach in the history of the university and the Southwestern Athletic Conference, was chosen in part because of his recruiting philosophy as it relates to the NCAA’s academic progress rating system.

Hopson’s hire is the sign of a changing reality for HBCUs and academic preparedness of their student athletes. HBCUs are equipped to empower students across a diverse spectrum of learning and achievement to succeed and leave their campuses with degrees. But somewhere between integration and the cultural phenomenon of athletic entitlement, many black athletes became numb to competitive approaches in the classroom. Schools of all sizes and athletic budgets now feel the PR pressure to graduate these athletes or face post-season bans, reduction in scholarships or practice time, or expulsion from NCAA Division I membership.

And where larger PWI’s feel the PR pressure of academic success in athletics, many HBCUs know that the pipes are on the verge of bursting. The NCAA last month acknowledged that historically black colleges and universities face unique challenges in academic support for student athletes, ruling to relax penalties for “low-resourced” schools falling short of the annual academic progress rate and salvaging the 2012 post season hopes of football programs at Southern and Jackson State, among others.

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Friday

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April 2012

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NCAA Lifts Jackson State Football Post-Season Ban

Written by , Posted in Headlines, Jackson State University, Mississippi, Sports

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[mpoverlay]Ross Dellenger of the Jackson Clarion-Ledger today reports that the post-season competition ban for the Jackson State University football team has been lifted by the NCAA. JSU qualified for the reprieve under a recently-changed rule to its Academic Progress Rate system and its review of low-resourced member schools, citing JSU’s APR score improvement and maintained improvement plan as reasons for the waiver.

Jackson State fits the mold of an improving limited-resource program — something we reported by in mid-April upon obtaining this NCAA letter sent to the school.

The football team had a 2010-11 single-year score of 913, a 27-point jump from the previous single-year score and the highest single-year score in at least six years. Its 888 multi-year score is its highest since 2006-07 and is just 12 points shy of meeting that 900 penalty threshold. (Jackson Clarion-Ledger)[/mpoverlay]

Wednesday

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March 2012

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NCAA Bans Jackson State Football from Postseason, May Lose Spring Practice in 2013

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The Jackson Clarion-Ledger earlier this week broke the news that Jackson State University football will again be banned from the SWAC championship game as a result of poor four-year academic progress rates.

Additionally, the team faces a ban from spring practice in 2013 unless their appeal for a sanction waiver is accepted by the NCAA.

JSU’s APR, a rolling four-year figure the NCAA uses to evaluate academic performance, is 888, an improvement from a year ago but still 12 points shy of 900.

At 900, the NCAA penalties will end. Until that time, Jackson State will continue to fight to get such sanctions waived. (Jackson Clarion-Ledger)

According to the Clarion-Ledger report, Jackson State cleared its best APR score in school history during the 2010-2011 season, a 913, after increasing its number of graduating players from two in 2008-09 to nine last year. Waiver requests from the university to the NCAA last year were all denied, with the exception of the school being expelled from NCAA membership.

The news comes just days after members of the Jackson State football team were allegedly involved in an off-campus fight that preceded the fatal shooting of JSU freshman Nolan Henderson.

Saturday

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February 2012

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NCAA Won’t Hear Appeal for Southern Post-Season Reinstatement

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Perryn Keys of the Advocate yesterday reported that the NCAA will not hear a request from Southern University for a waiver of its ban of the men’s basketball team from postseason play.

“On behalf of the Southern men’s basketball program, I would like to express our disappointment in our waiver request failing to warrant consideration in the view of the NCAA,” interim athletic director Sandy Pugh said in a statement. “However, we continue to make every effort to ensure that the academic progress our men’s basketball program has made will continue and will encourage all athletic programs to strive to excel academically and athletically.” (The Advocate)

Southern football and men’s basketball were banned from postseason competition this year for poor academic progress rates over a recent three-year assessment. Southern’s men’s basketball team, currently second in the SWAC, posted a perfect APR score for the fall 2011 semester.

Tuesday

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November 2011

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Jackson State makes APR progress, but is it enough?

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Jackson State University athletic director Vivian Fuller hopes a drastic improvement in academic performance will make the Tiger football team eligible to compete in next year’s Southwestern Athletic Conference championship game.

On a four-game winning streak and ranked as the top black college team in the nation, the JSU program had something else to celebrate Monday: improving academic scores.

But don’t be so quick to pick up those blue-and-white pom-poms.

via JSU makes progress, but is it enough? | The Clarion-Ledger | clarionledger.com.

Friday

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August 2011

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Editorial: Luther Campbell: Wrong Source, but Right Advice on HBCU Sports and the NCAA

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Former Miami Hurricane athletics enthusiast and sex profiteer Luther Campbell appeared on ESPN Radio this morning to discuss the developing scandal at the University of Miami. At the tail end of a largely emotional rant against former UM booster Nevin Shapiro and his takedown of the ‘U,’ Uncle Luke dropped this bomb.

“I’m to the point where, right now, these historical black colleges right now need to step up, and take these black kids out of this slave plantation mentality, the NCAA. These HBCUs need to get out of the NCAA. They don’t go to any bowl games, they don’t give them anything. They need to take them out of this slave plantation mentality that is the NCAA.”

It’s hard to take seriously any commentary on cultural advancement from Luther Campbell. Long retired from his exploitative and explicit career as lead man of 2 Live Crew, Campbell is as synonymous with Miami athletics as he is thong bikinis and bass drums. On its best day, his rhetoric on slave plantation mentality and possible secession from the NCAA is emotionally charged, uninformed and underdeveloped.

But on any day, it’s certainly not the worst idea in the world.

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Thursday

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August 2011

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Higher NCAA APR Cut Line May Benefit HBCU Athletic Inequity

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NCAA leaders are finally backing up their words with actions.

Less than 24 hours after President Mark Emmert called for immediate changes in college sports, the NCAA’s board of directors approved a measure that would include postseason bans if teams fall below the new Academic Progress Rate cutline. The new mark for the four-year rolling average will increase from 900 to 930. In October, NCAA leaders will consider when the new rules will take effect.

While the APR discussion was already on Thursday’s docket before this week’s two-day presidential retreat, it was the first chance university presidents could prove this time would be different.

via Higher APR cutline approved by NCAA committee – NCAA Football – CBSSports.com.

Wednesday

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June 2011

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Norfolk State is MEAC’s APR Leader Again

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The Norfolk State football program is putting together an impressive track record for academic progress.

The Spartans will receive the Football Championship Subdivision Academic Progress Report Award for the second consecutive year after having the best academic progress rate in the MEAC. The award recognizes the school with the highest football APR score in each of the 14 FCS conferences during the 2009-10 school year.  (more…)

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