The big lie in the APR system - and I'm not defending UConn's problems because Harvard we are not, but neither are we Southeast Central West Podunk State - is that the universities are all over the lot when it comes to what it takes for students generally to progress and even then, all too often the athletes are treated differently. Namely, the sort of courses required, the majors that a huge % of the athletes in the school strangely coincidentally share in common, the kids having athlete-friendly profs, that sort of garbage.
It cannot be very difficult for a school like Kentucky to make sure that the 1 and 2 year players in their Calipari pro production factory have the grades to look like they are students in good standing when they leave. How many of UConn's kids who left early to turn pro were not in good academic standing when they left? Wasn't it mostly other players who caused the APR issue? But it's not UK's fault for playing within the rules and I agree with the comment that UConn fans would drool to have the kind of entering classes that Calipari is bringing. But one does wonder how a guy with his lack of less than truly overwhelming success and even at that, heavily tarnished even though the KU folks want to believe that he was just another poor victim of forces beyond his control, has these kids lining up to play for him at good ol' KU. The NCAA seems not to be all that curious.
