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[QUOTE="azfan, post: 5268418, member: 7748"]
Student athletes were not and are not a homogeneous group.

The higher graduation rates in the revenue producing sports football and men's basketball was due to a wide combination of factors including user-friendly coursework. ;-). This was clearly not the only Factor keeping football and men's basketball players eligible but one would be naive if they didn't recognize how significant these user-friendly courses have been. In the contemporary world we have online courses.

Other sports such as golf, tennis, well the secondary sports attracted students with greater motivation and ability to complete college coursework. Those sports and the practice requirements were also more conducive to student athletes as opposed to professionals were in college jerseys.

I would not credit the NCAA for any of the positives in terms of academics including graduation requirements. The term pathologically incompetent and corrupt does a nice job of capturing NCAA involvement in colleges.
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