Dec 20, 2006
12:08:47pm
The Missions ARE a huge factor in BYU's rates and
a smaller but still somewhat important factor at UTAH as well. BYU's graduation rates for incoming freshman players that serve missions as evaluated over 7 years is much much better than the national average, but the NCAA refuses to acknowledge that. In my opinion, that shows a type of prejudice against religious institutions that should be intolerable. The NCAA could easily indtroduce the mission variable into it's formula for generating statistical results, but chooses not to, presumably because coaches that want to recruit good LDS athletes can point low grad rates out to the parents and encourage the boy to stay in school...their's specifically. There is no logical reason for the NCAA not to allow for the adjustment as BYU is a very unique situation.
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