DUMMY BOWLING; THIS WEEK'S GAME TO HIGHLIGHT WORST NCAA GRADUATION RATES.Byline: SCOTT WOLF Scott Richard Wolf (born June 4, 1968) is an American actor. Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Steven Wolf and Susan Enowitch, Wolf was raised in West Orange, New Jersey. He graduated in 1986 from West Orange High School. College Football If the Bowl Championship Series used graduation rates as part of its complicated formula for determining the No. 1 team, no one would care about this week's Tennessee-Arkansas game. It's being billed as The Dummy Bowl. Both teams are undefeated - and uneducated. Tennessee and Arkansas, both 8-0, each received black eyes in the latest NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association graduation-rate report released Monday. The Vols and Razorbacks have the two worst football-graduation rates among all schools ranked in this week's ESPN/USA Today coaches' Top 25. ``Not a single athlete on either team in this game is included in that report,'' Tennessee athletic director Athletic director (commonly, "athletics director") is a position at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, which oversees the work of the coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic Doug Dickey Doug Dickey (born June 24, 1932) was born in Vermillion, South Dakota. Dickey is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame for his coaching at Tenneesse and Florida. College career said. A four-year graduation average was computed for the freshmen football classes of 1988, 89, 90 and 91. The average for all Division I-A teams is 53 percent. Arkansas was at the bottom of the list with only 20 percent who earned degrees within six years. Tennessee ranked 11th in the SEC at 27 percent. It gets worse. For the 1991 freshman class, the Vols rank last among SEC football programs with an 11 percent graduation rate. Arkansas is next to last at 14 percent. The timing of the NCAA report couldn't have been more ironic for the Vols. It came the same day as Tennessee climbed to No. 1 in the BCS (1) (The British Computer Society, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, www.bcs.org) The chartered body for information technology professionals in the U.K., founded in 1957. rankings. ``I'd be alarmed if I thought it was going to be 11 percent over the next several years,'' said Carmen Carmen throws over lover for another. [Fr. Lit.: Carmen; Fr. Opera: Bizet, Carmen, Westerman, 189–190] See : Faithlessness Carmen the cards repeatedly spell her death. [Fr. Tegano, assistant athletic director for student life at Tennessee. ``But it was a fluke class in terms of graduating. We had 10 players out of 18 who have been active in professional football at one time or another. When those players often leave school, they usually concentrate on their careers before coming back to graduate.'' Of 18 freshman players who enrolled in the 1991 fall semester, only two had graduated by August 1997. One footnote to the game: It pits ex-USC defensive coordinator A defensive coordinator typically refers to a coach on a football team in the National Football League or college football who is in charge of the defense. This position aids the head coach a great deal in many ways by delegating play calling to other coaches and allowing the head Keith Burns
Keith Bernard Burns (born May 16, 1972 in Greeleyville, South Carolina) is a former professional football player. , now secondary coach at Arkansas, against ex-USC offensive line coach Mike Barry Mike Barry is the assistant offensive line coach for the National Football League Detroit Lions. Coaching career Prior to coaching the Lions, Barry coached at the college football level for North Carolina State, University of Tennessee, University of Colorado and the , who holds the same title at Tennessee. The pair didn't exactly see eye to eye in their five years together at USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. , to put it mildly. Yes man: Kansas State coach Bill Snyder Bill Snyder (born October 7, 1939, in Saint Joseph, Missouri) is the former head football coach for Kansas State University, holding that position from 1989 to 2005. Coaching career found plenty of faults with the Wildcats' 49-6 victory over Baylor. Question: ``Can you be unhappy with 49-6 win?'' Snyder: ``Yes.'' Q: ``Are you?'' A: ``Yes.'' Classy guy: Ohio State offensive lineman Rob Murphy Robert Albert (Rob) Murphy (born May 26, 1960 in Miami, Florida) is a former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball. From 1985 through 1995, Murphy played for the Cincinnati Reds (1985-88), Boston Red Sox (1989-90), Seattle Mariners (1991), Houston Astros (1992), St. admits to being one of the Big Ten's trashiest talkers, but it wasn't until Monday after the Michigan State loss that Murphy also showed himself to be one of the league's shadiest players. Murphy was asked if he was surprised Michigan State backup defensive end Julian Peterson could record 11 tackles and three sacks in replacing All-Big Ten senior Robaire Smith, who broke his leg on the seventh play of the game. ``When I pulled and got (Smith), I thought that's who their bread-and-butter guy was. When I cut him and saw him rolling around, grabbing his leg, I'm not going to lie, I was kind of happy,'' Murphy said. ``But, I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. . They had nothing to lose. They were going to blitz us the whole game. I don't know. With Robaire Smith out, it didn't matter. They had nothing to lose and everything to win. They kept bringing it all day.'' Later, Lou: LSU LSU Louisiana State University LSU Large Subunit LSU La Salle University (Philadelphia, PA) LSU La Sierra University LSU Link State Update (OSPF) LSU Learning Support Unit is 0-14-1 against Alabama at home since 1969, but head coach Gerry DiNardo isn't taking all the heat for the most-recent flop. The most brutal signs at Tiger Stadium were aimed at defensive coordinator Lou Tepper. They read, ``Lou Tepper's Last Home Game'' and ``Goodbye, Lou.'' Briefly: Texas running back Ricky Williams needs 204 yards to pass Pitt's Tony Dorsett's career rushing record. It could be difficult against Texas Tech Saturday. The last running back to gain 200 yards against Tech was Texas A&M's Darren Lewis, who had 232 yards in a 28-24 victory in 1990. . . . Nebraska is a 10-point underdog to Kansas State. According to America's Line in Las Vegas, the last time the Huskers were that big an underdog was the 1994 Orange Bowl against Florida State. . . . Texas coach Mack Brown is popular with the student body these days, and not just because the Longhorns are 7-2. When students began lining up at dawn Monday for tickets to the Nov. 27 Texas A&M game in Austin, some students waited as long as six hours to get theirs. Brown noticed the long lines and ordered 100 pizzas from a local restaurant. About an hour later, students were seen leaving with tickets in one hand and a box of pizza in the other. . . . Florida State quarterback Chris Weinke, who suffered season-ending neck and arm injuries last Saturday, finished with a school-record 218 passes without an interception; he had six against North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. State. FOOTNOTES by Scott Wolf THE TOP 10 1. Tennessee (8-0): It's no longer just a women's basketball school. 2. Florida State (9-1): Fans mourning loss of Weinke were cursing him seven weeks ago. 3. Kansas State (9-0): The preliminaries are over, now we see how good 'Cats really are. 4. Florida (8-1): Looking past South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. , and trip to Tallahassee? 5. UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX (8-0): Toledo rips Aliotti's coaching. OK, drop Bruins a notch. 6. Ohio State (8-1): We told you Buckeyes would lose to Michigan . . . State. 7. Wisconsin (9-0): It's only been nine games before Badgers get first serious test. 8. Texas A&M (9-1): If they hadn't scheduled Fla. State, Aggies might be in BCS mix. 9. Michigan (7-2): Our preseason No. 1 finally living up to expectations. 10. Arizona (9-1): Wildcats actually see increasing chance of making Rose Bowl. Five more to watch: 11. Arkansas (8-0); 12. Nebraska (8-2); 13. Tulane (8-0); 14. Virginia (7-2); 15. Notre Dame (7-1). THE LIST Tired of hearing how Bill Snyder has resurrected Kansas State's program? Just consider how well the Wildcats have played this decade. The Wildcats have already won 52 more games than in the '80s. Years W-L-T Pct. 1900-09 40-36-2 .526 1910-19 51-29-6 .628 1920-29 39-33-9 .541 1930-39 48-34-8 .578 1940-49 14-75-4 .172 1950-59 30-67-3 .315 1960-69 18-80-1 .187 1970-79 36-74-0 .327 1980-89 22-76-3 .237 1990-98 74-27-1 .730 BEST BET No. 11 Nebraska (8-2) at No. 2 Kansas State (9-0) OK, Nebraska is down, but this will be the Wildcats' first real game of the season. They haven't beaten the Cornhuskers in 29 games. The Huskers are vulnerable. They've started three quarterbacks and haven't had two losses entering November since 1981. CAPTION(S): Photo, Box PHOTO SAY WHAT? ``We're probably the most feared losingest los·ing·est adj. Slang Less successful or losing more often than any others of its kind: "help turn around one of the network's losingest nights of the week" Washington Post. team in the country.'' - Oregon State running back Ken Simonton, on the Beavers losing their past three games by a combined nine points. BOX: FOOTNOTES by Scott Wolf (see text) |
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