WhiskeyJack took two public studies one addressing Graduation Rates and one looking at the Return on Investment on degrees from various institutions and combined their data.
The NCAA study on Graduation Rates has been conducted for years. The NCAA breaks out the numbers into subgroups by gender and ethnicity because of the poor record of many institutions in the graduation of nonwhites and nonmales. The study put pressure on institutions to improve their performance.
WhiskeyJack didn't create the categories, the NCAA and the Feds did.
Each year around bowl season, The New York Times, Boston Globe, Indianapolis Star, and other papers run articles on the disparity of graduation rates among the football powers. Various writers cite the same NCAA data WhiskeyJack used and note that most of the ranked schools do such a poor job graduating their student athletes that their teams should be bowl INELIGIBLE. While the NCAA looks at several subgroups, the writers (and WhiskeyJack) cite the two largest subgroups for football athletes, Black and White.
WhiskeyJack went beyond the polls and trophies and is holding these universities accountable for the basic commitment they make each year to 18 year old and their parents - to provide those young men with a solid education to take them through life.
He documents their track record with that commitment and the quality of that education in terms of lifetime earning power. Eliminating the subgroups would misrepresent the basic inequity which exists in far too many institutions.
