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... is in the media again. This time when discussing the graduation rates of the bowl teams this year.
At 117 Division I-A schools, 63 percent of white football players graduated vs. 47 percent of African-American football players. African-American and white football players, however, graduated at a higher rate than their non-ath- letic male peers in the student body. The rate for African-American male students as a whole was 40 percent, compared to 61 for white male students.
Using those criteria, Georgia and Georgia Tech didn't fare well. The Bulldogs graduated 73 percent of white football players vs. 40 percent of blacks. Tech's rate was better, although still unacceptable, according to Lapchick, at 63 to 43 percent.