[81alum]

Try applying for a job with a good APR score.

What matters much, much more is a school's graduation rate.

I'd like to see somebody study the correlation between APRs and graduate rates before I put much stock into APRs.

The NCAA used to use graduation rates and changed to APR as a significant reform.  The problem with graduation rates is that they do not fully manifest until years after a coach or AD has done the damage.  APR shows up immediately so the current coach and current AD can be held accountable.

Believe me, many schools exploited the graduation rate time-lag to duck responsibility.  It was always the last administration's fault that students were not graduating, but the current coach and current AD were ALWAYS turning things around.  Even when they weren't.

Tedford has been there so long that the time-lag issue would not, of course, be a factor in his case.  But most schools cycle through football coaches at least once every four years--so in the past no one was ever held truly accountable for football players who did not graduate.  Now, if the APR drops, it reflects immediately on the current coach.

[81alum]

Try applying for a job with a good APR score.

What matters much, much more is a school's graduation rate.

I'd like to see somebody study the correlation between APRs and graduate rates before I put much stock into APRs.

The NCAA used to use graduation rates and changed to APR as a significant reform.  The problem with graduation rates is that they do not fully manifest until years after a coach or AD has done the damage.  APR shows up immediately so the current coach and current AD can be held accountable.

Believe me, many schools exploited the graduation rate time-lag to duck responsibility.  It was always the last administration's fault that students were not graduating, but the current coach and current AD were ALWAYS turning things around.  Even when they weren't.

Tedford has been there so long that the time-lag issue would not, of course, be a factor in his case.  But most schools cycle through football coaches at least once every four years--so in the past no one was ever held truly accountable for football players who did not graduate.  Now, if the APR drops, it reflects immediately on the current coach.