"If there were a BCS series for the top graduation rates among bowl teams, Tulane and Notre Dame would have played for the National Championship. Both graduated at least 74 percent of all football student-athletes, including African American football student-athletes. Penn State, Virginia, Boston College, Wake Forest, Mississippi, USC, Iowa and Oregon, all with football student-athlete graduation rates of 63 percent and higher, would also have made the top 10," Lapchick says.
"You can have scholar athletes and win at the same time. These schools are proof," Lapchick adds.
NCAA statistics were used in the study. For more information visit the Institute's Web site at <www.bus.ucf.edu/sport>.
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