FWST: TCU football posts lowest NCAA academic progress rate in Big 12

FWST: TCU football posts lowest NCAA academic progress rate in Big 12

BY CARLOS MENDEZ cmendez@star-telegram.com

 For a second consecutive year, TCU football had its lowest Academic Progress Rate — the NCAA’s measure for the academic progress of athletes — since it has been tracked, but the school’s top athletic official said it will improve soon.

The mark of 935 reported on Wednesday was the lowest in the Big 12 and only five points above the minimum 930 required to avoid penalties like loss of practice time and ineligibility for championships. TCU had a 936 in football last year.

The figure reported each year is an average of the past four years, so for TCU, it likely reflects turbulence from the move to the Big 12, athletic director Chris Del Conte said.

“We knew we had two years that were not our best years,” he said. “If you look at our graduation rate and our GPAs, we’re doing a wonderful job. When we moved into the Big 12, we had kids that transferred, we moved some kids out, changed the culture a little bit, whether it be for behavioral sort of things that transpired. And we had a couple of years where we were not healthy.” …

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