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Message: [QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 2112633, member: 1526"] Several years ago there were some articles written about how most of the men's BB players at Duke were majoring in Sociology. While it's considered to be a tough academic school, apparently it was generally known that Sociology was a relatively easier path toward graduation for the athletes in the revenue producing sports, explaining why an inordinate number of them were majoring in it. Due to the incredible amounts of money the athletes in the revenue producing sports rake in for the big athletic profile schools, to some greater or lesser extent they all have subtle ways of making the academic path easier, if not virtually non-existent (i.e. UNC) for their elite athletes in the revenue producing sports. Luckily this entrenched hypocrisy doesn't affect women's sports nearly as much because only a handful of schools nationwide make any money from their women's sports programs. Some of these athletic factory schools are academically tougher than others, but it's naive to think that they don't all make academic accomodations for athletes in the revenue producing sports programs, ranging anywhere from gut classes and majors all the way up to what UNC was engaged in for over 20 years. There's far too much money involved to let principles or integrity get in the way, and it's all being administered by a morally and ethically bankrupt organization called the NCAA. [/QUOTE]