ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
Any school with selective admissions that recruits elite football and basketball players is going to take kids who have no business being at the university and hide them out in easy majors to ensure their eligibility. Michigan does it with kinesiology, and we do it with sports management. If the major is open to normal students (unlike the thing that Texas specifically created for Vince Young) and there's no academic fraud (UNC, Auburn, Miami) and the players graduate at a respectable rate (I think somewhere north of 65% is good), I think it's the best that people can hope for.
Penn State, for years, hid most of their players in a Parks & Rec major to do the same. It's just the whole fake image of Paterno and the cult that leads them to believe that all of his players were graduating with Engineering or Philosophy or Physics or Business degrees. Given the secrecy of that institution and Paterno's iron grip on everything, I think it's safe to assume that more than a few shortcuts were taken to make sure that St. Joe had his 85% grad rate every year.
Lord know that I was no fan of Jim Tressel at the end, but getting the academic side of things in order was a huge accomplishment by him. Our grad rates are over 75%, and we've had one of the top ten apr's in football for several years running now. As long as it's all on the up and up, and there is a good mix of real students in the program, I don't care how many communications or sports management degrees are being earned.
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