@RyanAutullo: BREAKING: Toledo's men's basketball banned from the postseason next year for poor APR scores

I guess there's a meeting in July and if they use this years APR they'll be fine.

Wonder how they will structure the mac tournament since Toledo can't participate. I guess they will have to give out one less bye.

Looks like it's official...

NCAA denies Toledo grades appeal

Jeremy Guy tweeted that they will not participate in next years conference tournament.

Pretty common. It seems like everytime a discussion comes up about a team being post-season ineligible (football or basketball) conference rules also stipulate that they cannot participate in their tournament/championship game.

UConn got hit with it too. http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/783...

Bench Bracket. Low graduation rates will drop schools out of March Madness

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2109146,00.html#ixzz1sbEb2EpZ

In a March edition of Time Magazine the above article ran.  In the actual magazine they showed a bracket with about a dozen teams that would not have been in this year's tourney if the adopted standard was fully phased in.  Ohio was one of those teams.

It depends on whether a player is in good academic standing when they leave a school.  If not, the school gets burned. 

Just read where SIU refused to release two guys wanting to transfer until they make sure that they are in good academic standing. 

Also, I think I read somewhere that it's a double trigger system. Players can leave the program and you don't take an APR hit so long as they aren't in poor academic standing when they leave.

I'm not sure I agree with that Monroe.

The system is what the system is. The NBA will not let these kids in until they are 19 so they either have to go to an NCAA school or play abroad.

Personally I like how MLB does it. You can enter the draft right out of High School. If you choose not to enter the draft at that time you are not eligible until your high school class completes their junior year.

The schools have no way of forcing the kids to stay any length of time. The only leverage the school has the threat to withhold the scholarship and  the threat to withhold the transfer release. A school can't prevent a kid from going pro if theres a team out there that wants to hire them. Frankly, a school SHOULDN'T be able to prevent a kid from going pro. If the kid is good enough, its wrong to stand in his way and prevent him from monetizing his skill during that window of opportuntiy. Being in good academic standing when he leaves early demonstrates that he was taking his academic responses serious-ish. An athletic department shouldn't be punished for trying to get kids with NBA-talent into the classroom for a year when those kids leave with decent grades. Would we advocate penalizing a school who has a couple athletes with straight As depart for a school closer to home for family or monetary reasons? Would we advocate penalizing a school because a medicore scholarship player decides to stop being an athlete to focus on his major classes (at that school or at a different school better suited to his career/professional goals)? Would we advocate penalizing a school because some of their athletes depart the program to enlist in the armed forces, or to run for political office?

Maybe a dumb question here, but why are athletic teams penalized because a student athlete fails to meet his responsibilities in the classroom?  If that happens the athlete should either be dismissed from the team and/or school, but how is that the fault of the coach/team if he fails to make grades?  I mean there is an admissions board that lets them into the school, and if they don't make grades then they shouldn't play.  Isn't that penalty enough?  Unless you are knowlingly allowing student athletes to play without going to class or if they are failing then I'm just not sure why a coach would be responsible for them getting good grades.  There's only so much a coach can do, and the academic requirements of each university should take precedent instead of the NCAA  getting involved in handing down additional penalties to the team.  What am I missing here?