Friday, May 16th, 2008
The Notice of Intent to Award went out yesterday for our feasibility study, it went to Rosser International in the amount of $169,500. Three other firms who have done multiple feasibility studies in the past were disqualified apparently for “Failure to meet the requirements.” I’m sure there’s a small story here with what caused so many disqualifications.
Does this mean we had a winner by default? Please tell me that’s not the case … paying twice the price previously discussed due to multiple disqualifications just sounds crazy to me. I’m hopeful that the technicality was done as a means of selecting the highest bid, but you would think the points scale voting system that they had was plenty strong enough to let them win legitimately.
I mean no disrespect to Rosser … it looks like they’re a solid engineering firm with plenty of resources having done work on Turner Field, Cardinal Stadium at the University of Louisville, and other big places.
It sounds like we’re set to hear some news on this front now at least.
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Here we are again, dealing with the issues of the coaching turnovers of the past few years. The NCAA released its APR report yesterday and we lost 3.51 scholarships in football (for a total of 59.49) and .33 in golf (for a total of 4.17).
An APR of 925 projects to an NCAA Graduation Success Rate of approximately 60 percent. I believe that the ‘acceptable level’ for football is supposed to be 905 over the 4 year average, but that may have changed.
Here’s a chart I compiled from a variety of sources that show how a few of our men’s sports have done.
| |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
APR |
| Football |
871 |
911 |
944 |
905 |
| Basketball |
911 |
820 |
942 |
897 |
| Golf |
917 |
861 |
875 |
913 |
| Baseball |
912 |
938 |
964 |
914 |
| Soccer |
964 |
880 |
932 |
911 |
The academic years that are involved are from 2003 – 2007. The players in classes recruited by Sewak and Van Gorder that were coming in to the program have since left without a degree at a higher rate than is considered acceptable.
Our men’s basketball program sported a failing grade again (despite the big gain), posting an 897 out of 1000 with 925 being the cutoff, but we were granted a pass because of demonstrated academic improvement from the previous year.
The good news is that while we lost 3.51 football scholarships, that’s up from the 6 we lost last year. If we keep up the two year average since Sewak however, we should be rid of these penalties in the next couple of years.
Source: NCAA’s APR Report on Georgia Southern University
