ABSTRACT With the advent of the Annual Progress in 2004, the assessment for athletic eligibility has shifted from individual measurements to aggregate outcomes among colleges and universities that participate in Division I athletics. Utilizing publicly-available data from the Fall 2011 media guides of 60 Division I football programs, the authors explored the prevalence of academic clustering among football student-athletes, extending the analysis of academic clustering across Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) automatic-qualifying (AQ) conferences. Additionally, the authors explored the relationship between organizational affiliation and academic clustering among football student-athletes. Across all FBS AQ conferences, evidence of academic clustering is prevalent and found among non-white football players at a higher rate than white football players. Findings provide further evidence of academic clustering among Division I football programs and new evidence of statistically significant correlations between the presence of academic clustering and university membership in the Association of American Universities (AAU), and conference membership.

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足球学生运动员中的学术聚类及其与机构特征的关系

摘要随着2004年年度进展的出现，对参加运动资格的评估已从个人衡量标准转变为参加I级运动的高校之间的综合成绩。利用2011年秋季I足球项目媒体指南的公开数据，作者探索了足球学生运动员中学术聚类的普遍性，并将对足球聚类（FBS）自动资格认定（AQ）的学术聚类分析进行了扩展）会议。此外，作者还探讨了足球学生运动员的组织隶属关系与学术集群之间的关系。在所有的FBS AQ会议中，学术聚类的证据非常普遍，并且在非白人足球运动员中的发现率高于白人足球运动员。