He’s talking about Northeastern University’s recent decision to drop football.
[Northeastern University’s neighbor, Boston University,] appears to have invested well in its 12 years without football. Not having a Saturday tailgate does not seem to have hurt … its national and global rankings as an academic institution. The athletes in the remaining sports do remarkably well. Its male athletes have a graduation success rate of 89 percent, including 100 percent for its African-American male basketball players. Its female athletes have a 97 percent graduation success rate.
… Northeastern scored a touchdown by dropping football.
November 24th, 2009 at 7:21AM
Princeton Review has Boston University as being 60% female. I wonder how eliminating football will helping with that number.
Also, I never believe what universities claim about graduation rates. Unless someone compares year to year rosters, there is no way of knowing what the real graduation rates are.