The University ranks last in graduation success rates in the SEC for men's basketball and football, according to NCAA data released Wednesday for the 1997-2000 entering classes. Nineteen percent of the University's men's basketball players and 41 percent of football players from the 1997-2000 entering class graduated. The data does not encompass the players men's basketball coach Dennis Felton recruited after he became head coach in 2003. Football head coach Mark Richt inherited many of the players included in the graduation success rate when he became football coach in 2001. "It's still mostly not (our players)," Richt said Wednesday, referring to the coaching staff that began in 2001. "We like to concentrate on what we've been doing since we've been here."llamcorper.

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