Keep away from Randy, Shane. He rides those stinky motorized bikes. Oliver Barry, CRS, GRI Real Estate Broker Bob Parks, LLC 1517 Hunt Club Blvd Gallatin TN 37066 615-972-4239 615-826-4040 Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 11, 2012, at 7:43 PM, Shane Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > Yep! I'm still resisting his brain washing on bikes with pedals are more > manly. > > > > Sent From Shane's iPhone > Go Gators! & Skol Vikes! > > On Dec 11, 2012, at 8:05 PM, "Randy Lyons" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You have learned Master Oliver’s lessons well, Grasshopper. J >> >> Randy >> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Shane Ford >> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 7:39 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [gatortalk] Fwd: [gatornews] Northwestern, Northern Illinois >> Take The Top Spots in the Academic BCS | TIME.com >> >> I think they paid off the study for higher results. Come on! UGAly ranked >> higher than UF? If that's not cause enough to disqualify this study, then I >> don't know what is? >> >> >> >> Sent From Shane's iPhone >> Go Gators! & Skol Vikes! >> >> On Dec 11, 2012, at 1:12 PM, "mail.bobparks.com" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Alabama's #7? What'd they do, annex UAB? >> >> Oliver Barry, CRS, GRI >> Real Estate Broker >> Bob Parks, LLC >> 1517 Hunt Club Blvd >> Gallatin TN 37066 >> 615-972-4239 >> 615-826-4040 >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> From: Woody Bass <[email protected]> >> Date: December 11, 2012 10:11:36 AM CST >> To: WXIA <[email protected]> >> Subject: [gatornews] Northwestern, Northern Illinois Take The Top Spots in >> the Academic BCS | TIME.com >> Reply-To: [email protected] >> >> http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2012/12/11/the-college-football-top-25-as-ranked-by-academics/ >> >> The College Football Top 25 – As Ranked By Academics >> >> New America Foundation >> Northwestern University, the 20th-ranked college football team in the >> nation, won’t win a national title on the field this year. But the Wildcats >> are first in the classroom, according to the “Academic BCS,” the New America >> Foundation’s annual academic performance rankings of the top-25 college >> football teams. >> >> Northwestern’s top finish is not surprising. But the New America >> Foundation’s second-best academic team, Northern Illinois — which finished >> ahead of schools like Notre Dame, which will play for the national >> championship on Jan. 7 against Alabama, and Stanford — is a more curious >> case. The Huskies, who earned a bid to the Jan. 1 Orange Bowl, are a >> surprise both on and off the field. >> >> How did Northern Illinois finish so high? The New America rankings are not >> just based on raw statistics like graduation rates or the NCAA’s Academic >> Progress Rate, which indicate how well a team is keeping its players on >> track to graduate. If that were the case, a school such as Notre Dame, which >> graduates 83% of its players, according to federal data, would finish well >> above Northern Illinois, which has a 66% rate. >> >> (VIDEO: How a D.C. High School Football Team Beat All Odds) >> >> Instead, the New America Foundation bases its rankings on several factors: >> how a football team’s graduation rate compares to that of the school’s >> overall male student body, how a team’s black-white graduation gap compares >> to the male black-white graduation gap in the general student population, >> and the spread between a football team’s black graduation rate and the >> school’s overall graduation rate for black men. “Our formula is the only one >> out there that puts these statistics into context,” says Alex Holt, an >> education researcher at the New America Foundation. (New America’s formula >> gives less weight to a school’s Academic Progress Rate, which it considers a >> less rigorous test, than actually graduating). >> >> So Northern Illinois scores major points because football players graduate >> at a higher rate (66%) than the Northern Illinois student body at large >> (51%). At Northern Illinois, 72% of white players graduate, while 63% of >> black football players graduate: that’s a nine-point difference. In the >> general population, 56% of white male students at Northern Illinois >> graduate, compared to 30% of black male students. That’s a 26-point >> difference for the student body, compared to a nine-point difference for the >> football team: again, New America credits Northern Illinois football for >> outperforming the rest of the school. Also, while 63% of Northern Illinois’ >> black football players graduate, just 30% of black male students graduate >> overall. That 33-point difference propels the Huskies to the top of the >> standings. >> >> (MORE: How Notre Dame Has Lifted College Football) >> >> On the flip side, look at the team from Michigan, a school with a strong >> academic reputation, yet finishes near the bottom of these rankings. While >> Michigan graduates 88% of its students, only 59% of Wolverine football >> players get their diplomas. While the black-white graduate gap on the >> football team is only four points worse than black-white gap for all male >> students, just 47% of Michigan’s black football players graduate, compared >> with 70% of Michigan’s black male students overall. >> >> (For more details on each school in New America’s study, click here for a >> graphical representation of the results.) >> >> Almost all education rankings are imperfect, and New America’s research is >> no different. In order to make comparisons with overall graduation rates on >> a given campus, for example, New America Foundation uses federal graduation >> rates in its data. College athletic departments have criticized these rates >> for understating an athletic team’s performance, since players who transfer >> out of a school and pursue a degree elsewhere, or leave early for the pros, >> count against them. To account for athlete mobility, the NCAA came up with >> the “graduation success rate” (GSR), which credits teams for graduating >> incoming transfers, and doesn’t penalize them for having players transfer >> out or pursue the pros. For almost all teams, the GSR is higher than the >> federal rate. But there is no GSR for the rest of the student body, so New >> America uses the federal rate to make comparisons. >> >> (PHOTOS: Top 10 College Football Gameday Traditions) >> >> Aside from the baseline numbers, you can certainly question a methodology >> that gives more credence to campus context than raw performance, which puts >> Northern Illinois, with its 66% federal graduation rate for football, above >> Notre Dame, at 83% (Northern Illinois has a 83% GSR, while Notre Dame’s GSR >> is 97%). But no matter how you slice the numbers, as we go into bowl-game >> season, the study reminds us of the shortcomings of college sports. For 19 >> of the top 25 football teams — or 76% — their federal graduation rates are >> lower than those of the overall student population. On 22 of the top 25 >> college football teams — or 88% — more than 30% of the players fail to >> graduate. Using the more generous, and probably fair, measure — the GSR — 15 >> out of the top 25 college football teams (60%) fail to graduate more than >> 30% of their players. >> >> That’s just not a winning game plan. >> >> >> >> Woody (via iPhone) >> -- >> GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! >> 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions >> 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions >> 2008 National Football Champions | >> Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), >> Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us >> -- >> GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! >> 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions >> 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions >> 2008 National Football Champions | >> Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), >> Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us >> -- >> GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! >> 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions >> 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions >> 2008 National Football Champions | >> Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), >> Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us >> -- >> GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! >> 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions >> 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions >> 2008 National Football Champions | >> Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), >> Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us
