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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 893568, member: 3850"] The last thirty years have been about maintaining a carefully maintained fiction of the "scholar-athlete".... When a school with the undeniable academic cachet of North Carolina is shown to have an organized system of providing fraudulent classes and enhanced grades to athletes, you know that the towel has been thrown in. There is too much money, too much pressure, for there to be teams of scholar athletes. There are teams of freakish athletes who may be able to read on the 7th grade level (the higher functioning ones, anyway). And take college courses that are designed to keep them eligible. The average football player scores on the SAT at levels far, far below the student body average. Maybe the majority would not be accepted if they were not an athlete. Let's just take the Gators... ...the U of Florida freshman class...84% earned a 4.0 in high school ...88% of entrants had a SAT range of 2100-2400 University of Florida's gap between football players and the student body has its players scoring 346 points lower than their peers. At the University of Wisconsin, over 50% of football players do not meet the normal requirements for admission and come under a special admission process...same with Georgia, LSU, Clemson, Texas A&M and many others. [/QUOTE]