Georgia Tech’s football and men’s basketball teams finished below national averages in the NCAA’s Graduation Success Rate report released Tuesday.
However, both teams’ scores, which tracked graduation rates for schoarship athletes entering Tech between 2004 and 2007, reflected improvement in graduation rate. Further, particularly since the hire of coaches Paul Johnson and Brian Gregory and the increase of academic support staff, the teams’ performance in the classroom has markedly improved.
The GSR scores released Tuesday are an average of graduation rates for scholarship athletes who entered college between 2004 and 2007 over the ensuing six-year period. The football team’s GSR was 66, 12th in the ACC out of 14 teams and below the national average for FBS teams of 71. It was 63 last year and 55 the year prior.
The basketball team’s GSR was 46, 14th out of the current 15 ACC schools and also below the sport’s national average of 70. The team’s GSR was 40 in the 2013 report and 18 in 2012, the fifth-lowest score in Division I that year.
In this year’s report, men’s golf, men’s and women’s swimming, women’s tennis and volleyball all recorded perfect scores of 100. The overall score for all Yellow Jackets teams was 81, just below the national average of 82.
Tech forecasts that the football GSR will improve next year to 73 percent. That score will include the class that arrived in 2008, Johnson’s first freshman class. The men’s basketball GSR is expected to improve to 50 percent.
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