BearyWhite;842235227 said:
Isn't though there an argument to be made that a big part of the issue is the fact that half our athletes across all sports (according to most recent stats, which aren't that recent) don't meet minimum entry requirements, so it's incomplete to focus on what's basically a single class of students recruited during Sandy's tenure?
The data is not from a single class, this was from a Farudo article in October (
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_24383076/cal-football-team-struggling-classroom-too) :
"The GSR figures represent the four-year average of freshmen who enrolled from 2003-04 through 2006-07 and were given six years to graduate. In other words, the cycle ended recently -- in the spring of 2012."
She was hired in September of 2004, so that's 3 of 4 freshman classes that she was the acting AD for, all the way through their graduation. She inherited the 1st class as Sophomores, and had most of their collegiate careers. 9 years later the cumulative result of these 4 classes is the very worst graduation rate of 72 major BCS schools.
The academics are largely on Tedford, but Barbour wears it too. ESP sales are terrible, attendance is poor in revenue sports, our grad rates are a public embarrassment, and we just had the worst football season in over a century as a result of her hire. What are her redeeming qualities??
For a laugh, an excerpt from her introductory press conference:
"She noted that her "charter" from to-be-Chancellor Birgeneau was for
Cal football to compete for the national championship and for Cal athletics to achieve consistent top-10 rankings in the [Sear's Cup descendent], while at the same time always being NCAA compliant and fiscally prudent."
Source:
http://california.scout.com/2/295115.html(yes it's a rival site, but given who was the publisher I think an exception is in order)
