The Division I Committee on Academic Performance outlined at its meeting in Indianapolis earlier this week specific details for the development of and data collection for a public Web site that will contain Division I head coaches’ APR portfolio.

The site is scheduled for a phased launch, with information about baseball, football, men’s and women’s basketball, and women’s indoor and outdoor track coaches available in the summer of 2010 and other sports available in the summer of 2011.

The Web site will display the single-year APR for which a head coach is associated with a team, along with hire date and the date the coach left the head coaching position. Including the hire and departure dates will help those who view the information to understand how much influence a particular coach had over a team’s APR in that academic year.

Any head coach who is in place at any point during an academic year (August 1-July 31) will be assigned that team’s APR for that year. For example, if a coach leaves a program six weeks into an academic year, he or she will still be assigned the APR for that team for the year, as will the coach who is hired to fill the position subsequently. The committee decided this would the simplest and fairest way to manage the issue of multiple head coaches in a single year.

The committee, which met Monday through Wednesday, believed that even if a coach is with a program for just a few weeks at the end or the beginning of a year, he or she may have influenced the APR for that team. Coaches will not have the opportunity to appeal the single-year APR, though coaches will be able to review the accuracy of employment data. Institutions also will have the opportunity to request adjustments to APRs. The coaches site will reflect any such adjustments.

The committee also discussed the creation of the secure Web site that would include more extensive information about head coaches, including academic profiles of recruits and infractions information. As with the public Web site, the committee confirmed that the secure site will assign an institution’s data for a given academic year to any head coach employed for the team during that year.

The secure Web site is not as fully developed as the one that will be available publicly, and the committee will continue its work on related issues, including how student-athletes will be identified and still retain privacy rights.

Two-four transfer data

The group also confirmed a list of data to be collected about transfers from two-year institutions in football, men’s and women’s basketball, and baseball. The data will help shape future two-four transfer policy discussions for both the CAP and the Academic Cabinet, with the hope of finding variables that help two-four transfer student-athletes earn degrees.

The data will be collected as part of the Academic Performance Census data beginning with the 2008-09 data. The committee committed to collecting the identified data elements for at least two years, with an opportunity to reassess, add and subtract items, and add and subtract sports.

The final list of data to be collected follows:

•         Number and names of two-year institutions attended (full and part time)

•         Total number of credits earned at two-year institutions

•         Total number of English, math, science and physical education credits earned and transferable to the four-year institutions

•         Total number of transferable credit hours applicable toward four-year degree program

•         Total number of remedial credits required at the four-year institution and the subjects

•         Overall two-year grade-point average and transferable GPA.

•         Whether a student-athlete graduated from the two-year institution

•         Number of terms enrolled and credits earned at the most recently attended two-year institution

•         Number of credits earned during the academic term before transfer at an institution other than the two-year college from which the student-athlete graduated

•         NCAA initial-eligibility status

The committee considered adding remedial and nontraditional coursework taken at the two-year institution but ultimately decided that information was too difficult to ascertain from a transcript.

The CAP members decided to pilot the program in the four sports most impacted by two-four transfers in order to reduce the burden on personnel at member institutions.

In other business, the committee supported two legislative proposals, as amended:

•         2008-75, which would require institutions to submit final high school transcripts of student-athletes certified early by the Eligibility Center.

•         2008-77-B, which would require institutions to submit high school transcripts for two-four transfers.

The CAP spent the first two days of the meeting hearing appeals of postseason ban penalties from four different institutions. The committee will communicate decisions to the institutions involved within 21 days.