willi - I know and agree with you that graduation rates for college athletes are bad across the country, in general.... however, let's remember a couple things.... The players that are not graduating are being given the CHANCE... for free. Let's be honest and stop beating around the bush.... the players that don't graduate are either A) going to the professional level early (which is fine by me... the whole purpose of going to college is to improve your marketability in whatever field you choose... be it sports or business or law or whatever) or B) people that would not ordinarily even gone to college either because of lack of ambition or lack of money. Whatever the reason it is, without an athletic scholarship, these athletes who are not graduating would never even have stepped foot in the door on day 1.... at least they were given the opportunity. Thats a lot more than can be said for the vast majority of the world.
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