One anecdotal account doesn’t make a trend. This is from the link I posted after I had a chance to to some looking into this myself:
"The result is a focus on eligibility rather than education. That isn’t to say schools are committing academic fraud to keep athletes eligible, just that they put them in easy majors — and things that really aren’t even majors, like general studies. These majors allow players to get easy degrees that give them little chance of finding a job consistent with their peers, many of whom had more time and academic prowess to spend on more challenging majors or will go to graduate school.
Not only has the NCAA done a good job of framing a “success” as receiving a degree rather than receiving the education necessary to get a job, it has also created its own graduation rate to paint a better picture than the federal graduation rates. While the NCAA claims athletes graduate at a higher rate than the general student body, the federal rates show the opposite.
> Throughout Division I’s Football Bowl Series programs, the 2013 football report found (findings are published quarterly by sport), athletes who entered college in 2005 graduated at rates 18 percentage points lower than non-athletes, and black players lagged by 24 percentage points."
As a former educator I know these kids. Let’s just say that they are not taking AP classes. Also the better athlete they are the less they generally care about academics because they are hoping to make it to the pro’s.
