[NU Sports] more on Bowl-ing for dollars

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Wasn't it Cincinnati that had a zero percentage graduation rate for basketball over five years and the reason the coach got bounced (and is now at West Virginia).

John DeGroat
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From: Tom Maycock <tkmaycock at yahoo.com>
> > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123128294761758905.html
> 
> The article provides a reminder of why NU will probably never be in the BCS 
> championship game, and why that's probably OK:
> 
> '"Florida has a 68 percent graduation rate but a 25-percentage-point racial 
> disparity," he wrote in his Dec. 13, 2008, column. "Oklahoma should flat-out be 
> disqualified with a 46 percent graduation rate."
> 
> Mr. Jackson also found that four other schools that played in BCS bowl games -- 
> Ohio State, Texas, Alabama and Utah -- all have black graduation rates under 50% 
> and an average racial gap of 30 percentage points.'
> 
> I was rooting for OU, but 46%?
> 
> Tom
> 
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