[NU Sports] Minny's graduation rate compared with Northwestern

[s.fridley at comcast.net]

With the help of a friend, here's a off-the-top-of-the-head list of some of the "recent" transfers from the basketball team.

O'Neill recruits: 
Ben Johnson (under carmody's watch)
Ed McCants (under carmody's watch)
Harry Goode (under carmody's watch)
Casey Cortez (under carmody's watch)
Sean Wink (quit team...still may have graduated)
Aaron Molnar (quit team...still may have graduated)
Steve Lepore
David Newman
Brody Deren
Adam Robinson

These guys immediately come to mind...and O'Neill coached only three seasons!

Carmody has had only two of his own recruits quit or transfer to date:

Jimmy Maley
Thomas Soltau

With such a list of transfers and the small number of scholarships for a sport like basketball, it's no surprise that they can have a devastating impact on the team's play, and on its graduation rate.
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> At 11:38 AM 12/14/2004, Jeff Beamsley wrote: 
> 
> >The issue is just as much a question of why is NU's graduation rate is 
> >LOWER than the overall institutional rate as it is why Minny's athletic 
> >graduation rate is higher. 
> 
> Given the raw numbers, I wouldn't consider it a big issue. It's like that 
> water treatment system in Alaska that was found to be below EPA standards; 
> the system couldn't remove a high enough percentage of impurities because 
> the water was so clean to begin with. (Their solution was to make the water 
> *dirtier* so that the system could clean it up.) Basically, it's silly to 
> worry about higher vs. lower in this case. 
> 
> Regarding basketball: hard to say too much specifically without knowing 
> exactly what year range they are talking about, but it hasn't been that 
> long since the last coaching change/rash of transfers. We've also had at 
> least one European leave to play professional ball back home. So it's not 
> exactly an "oh dear, we're recruiting a bunch of dummies" kind of 
> phenomenon, although it might speak about the nature of college basketball 
> today. 
> 
> Eric West 
> e-west at northwestern.edu 
> 
> 
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