[SoCalDomer]

Valiant, you're talking about SAT scores that really have nothing to do with the measure of academic success at ND or any college for that matter. Once the student is admitted, the SAT score is meaningless.

The scores that measure the academic sucess of student athletes at any school is the graduation rates, the number of academic all americans, and in a very small part the Wonderlic tests. (The wonderlic is a very small factor, but I think it reveals more than people really think; consider the fact that the lowest score of "6" was scored by a Michigan grad, while ND had two of the highest scores.)

Second, you seem to imply that somehow ND and BC student athletes aren't getting good grades, or the schools are giving them free passes. Well, if you're going to make those assertions, the burden is on you to support it with evidence.

You base that argument on the fact that there just isn't enough time to focus on academics and football. By that logic, the Naval Acadamy, Airforce and Army must have some of the stupidest athletes in Div-1. But that is not even close to being accurate. Our armed service acadamies obviously educate their student, athletes included. They likewise have some of the highest graduation rates.

It seems to me you know very little about ND or BC if you really believe they give lip service like that to academics.

Also, Michigan really isn't any different than the SEC schools who have terrible rates of graduation and like Michigan steer their athletes into simple majors. But Michigan is not alone; out of the roughly 120 schools in D-1, only about 30 of them graduate more than 70% of their football players.