Tobacco Road Report

A reader of the Tobacco Road Report, who also happens to be a colleague of the Official Wife of TRR, passed along a tidbit of information yesterday concerning student-athlete graduation rates that had so far eluded our radar screen. With apologies for the delay, we at TRR would like to extend our congratulations to the student-athletes at Duke and Boston College for earning the top graduation rates in all of Division I.

Duke finished first on the list, graduating 91 percent of its student athletes, only slightly ahead of Boston College who finished second with 90 percent. The data is from the 2006 NCAA Graduation Rates Report and is based on the most recent graduating class for which six years of information is available. The NCAA press release can be found here.

We thought this might be a good time to remind readers of the site that these two schools generally do things right, despite recent "incidents" that have attracted media attention. We at TRR would also like to point out that the majority of the student-athlets that comprise these graduation rates -- those in the so-called non-revenue sports -- quietly pursue their disciplines without fanfare. TRR salutes your efforts.