[Kathy]

To summarize the view of outsiders looking IN at K.al's athlete academics collapse:  K.al recruits academically unqualified or minimally qualified football players.  Then, more than half of those students either cannot succeed or simply won't succeed in graduating.  The conclusion from outside seems simple: recruit better students who can at least do the minimum quality work to graduate.

On (where else?) Bear Insider,  one of their saner posters put forward a different theory: the students aren't failing,  K.al might be making it too tough.

"The bottom line is that Low APR U should not be making it more difficult on their football players than at other rigorous D1 schools like Stanford, the University of Dead Fake Girlfriends, UCLA, Duke and Northwestern. If they are, there will be no progress towards a solution regardless of who becomes AD. "  That sounds to me like a call to dumb it down for athletes. 

"Low APR U has a reputation to uphold academically, but if they are stubbornly demanding standards that are unreacheable, they will actually do the opposite. They will continue to create an embarrassment for themselves."

... weenies think athletes are spoon-fed easy courses at Stanford. That's the only way they can fathom how our athletes graduate and theirs do not. That the disparity might have something to do with the quality of student each school recruits never enters into their reasoning.

[Kathy]

To summarize the view of outsiders looking IN at K.al's athlete academics collapse:  K.al recruits academically unqualified or minimally qualified football players.  Then, more than half of those students either cannot succeed or simply won't succeed in graduating.  The conclusion from outside seems simple: recruit better students who can at least do the minimum quality work to graduate.

On (where else?) Bear Insider,  one of their saner posters put forward a different theory: the students aren't failing,  K.al might be making it too tough.

"The bottom line is that Low APR U should not be making it more difficult on their football players than at other rigorous D1 schools like Stanford, the University of Dead Fake Girlfriends, UCLA, Duke and Northwestern. If they are, there will be no progress towards a solution regardless of who becomes AD. "  That sounds to me like a call to dumb it down for athletes. 

"Low APR U has a reputation to uphold academically, but if they are stubbornly demanding standards that are unreacheable, they will actually do the opposite. They will continue to create an embarrassment for themselves."

... weenies think athletes are spoon-fed easy courses at Stanford. That's the only way they can fathom how our athletes graduate and theirs do not. That the disparity might have something to do with the quality of student each school recruits never enters into their reasoning.