{"id":104,"date":"2007-10-04T10:03:29","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T16:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/10\/04\/baylor-leads-big-12-in-football-graduation-rate-again\/"},"modified":"2007-10-04T10:03:29","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T16:03:29","slug":"baylor-leads-big-12-in-football-graduation-rate-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/10\/baylor-leads-big-12-in-football-graduation-rate-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor leads Big 12 in football graduation rate &#8212; again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it seems colleges forget that student-athletes are just that &#8212; <em>students<\/em> first, then athletes. But not at Baylor! For the sixth time in the Big 12 Conference&#8217;s 12-year history, the Bears lead the league in football graduation rate.<\/p>\n<p>The latest Graduation Success Rate (GSR) numbers from the NCAA show that 84% of Baylor football players who began college between 1997-2000 graduated within six years. That number easily beat the national average of 67%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/b12-fb-gradrates-big.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/b12-fb-gradrates-big.gif\" alt=\"Big 12 football graduation rates 2007\" border=\"1\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click on the table for a larger version. You can read more in this morning&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/spt\/colleges\/topstories\/stories\/100407dnspogradrates.37747af.html\"><em>Dallas Morning News<\/em><\/a> or view all the numbers at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncaa.org\/wps\/portal\/!ut\/p\/kcxml\/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLN4g3NPUESYGYxqb6kWhCjhgihqYeCDFfj_zcVH1v_QD9gtzQ0IhyR0UAE3AuRw!!\/delta\/base64xml\/L3dJdyEvUUd3QndNQSEvNElVRS82XzBfMTVL?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=\/wps\/wcm\/connect\/NCAA\/NCAA+News\/NCAA+News+Online\/2007\/Association-Updates\/Trend+data+shows+graduation+success+rate+improvement+-+10-03-07+update\">NCAA.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor student-athletes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it seems colleges forget that student-athletes are just that &#8212; students first, then athletes. But not at Baylor! For the sixth time in the Big 12 Conference&#8217;s 12-year history, the Bears lead the league in football graduation rate. The latest Graduation Success Rate (GSR) numbers from the NCAA show that 84% of Baylor football [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}