<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>This article that is in the Idaho Statesman raises more questions than it answers. </div><div>First, why are we keeping a football coach that failed to meet the minimum NCAA Academic Progress Rate?</div><div>The national AVERAGE is 940, passing is 925. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">Every UW athletic program had a score of 948 or higher, and </span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">even all of Eastern Washington's athletic programs passed!</span></font></div><div>And think about this, there will be 79 "scholarships" JUST FOR THE FOOTBALL TEAM, not the 85 they could have had!</div><div>How many (total) "sports/athletic" scholarships are there if the football team alone gets 79/85??????????</div><div><br></div><div>For anyone on the Vision 2020 list with information about U of I, how many scholarships, equal to the sports scholarships, is the U of I awarding</div><div>for Math? Physics? Biology? etc etc.......... Any thing you can add Nick? </div><div><br></div><div>The University is in a real hurt for funding, and it is my understanding that the Athletics Department has not participated in the across the board </div><div>reductions, and we get these kinds of results? IF the University Administration is content with this kind of performance, why hasn't the Board of Regents</div><div>stepped in?</div><div><br></div><div>Time to clean up and clean OUT. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; "><h1 id="storyTitle" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Idaho football sanctioned by NCAA</h1><h2 style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></h2><h2 id="byLine" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> - The Associated Press</h2><h3 style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 3px; margin-right: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(32, 64, 96); font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; ">Published: 06/09/10</h3><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></span></font></span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; "><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">BOISE, Idaho — The University of Idaho football team will lose six scholarships for failing to meet the minimum scores on the NCAA's annual Academic Progress Rate reports.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The APR measures classroom performance and is based on data collected over four years, in this case from the 2005-06 through 2008-09 years. The report was released Wednesday.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Programs must receive a score of 925 or above to avoid sanctions.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Idaho's football team received a 908 score, resulting in a one-year loss of six scholarships. The Vandals will operate with 79 scholarships during the 2010 season, short of the maximum 85.</div><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Read more: <a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2010/06/09/1224584/idaho-football-sanctioned-by-ncaa.html#ixzz0qSlnZVHv" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.idahostatesman.com/2010/06/09/1224584/idaho-football-sanctioned-by-ncaa.html#ixzz0qSlnZVHv</a></span></span></div></body></html>