<p>A2Wolves, have you looked at the average high school GPA and SAT/ACT scores of football programs at other universities and compared them to those of the average students at those institutions?</p>
<p>Duke University
[Fight</a>, Blue Devils, fight - Columns](<a href=“http://media.www.dukechronicle.com/media/storage/paper884/news/2006/10/20/Columns/Fight.Blue.Devils.Fight-2379823.shtml]Fight”>http://media.www.dukechronicle.com/media/storage/paper884/news/2006/10/20/Columns/Fight.Blue.Devils.Fight-2379823.shtml)</p>
<p>Rice University
[Off</a> the Kuff: The Rice sports debate](<a href=“http://www.offthekuff.com/mt/archives/003391.html]Off”>Off the Kuff: The Rice sports debate)</p>
<p>Stanford University and Northwestern (scroll to the bottom of the page)
[Pro-football-reference.com</a> blog College football thoughts](<a href=“http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/?p=93]Pro-football-reference.com”>http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/?p=93)</p>
<p>University of California-Berkeley and Los Angeles
[The</a> California Golden Blogs :: Cal Football Academics Standards < UCLA Football Academic Standards? :: June :: 2007](<a href=“Blogsome”>Blogsome)</p>
<p>University of Notre Dame
[Busting</a> the admissions standards myth - Viewpoint](<a href=“http://media.www.ndsmcobserver.com/media/storage/paper660/news/2004/12/07/Viewpoint/Busting.The.Admissions.Standards.Myth-823220.shtml]Busting”>http://media.www.ndsmcobserver.com/media/storage/paper660/news/2004/12/07/Viewpoint/Busting.The.Admissions.Standards.Myth-823220.shtml)</p>
<p>A2Wolves, I am not talking about schools like Alabama, FSU or OSU that have a win-at-all-cost attitude. I am talking about the Dukes Stanfords of the world. The mean SAT score for a football player at those universities is 300 points lower than the mean SAT score of an average student at their respect universities. THREE HUNDRED points. I don’t even need to get into the breaks those students get once enrolled at the university. The admissions process on its own pretty much proves my point beyond any doubt. </p>
<p>At the end of the day, athletes who are of a certain academic calibre can do whatever they like. They can major in whatever subject they chose, take whatever classes they like and enroll into whichever college within the university they are admitted into. Unfortunately, most athletes don’t meet such academic standards, not just at Michigan, but at schools like Duke, Notre Dame, Rice and even Stanford. If you think those students with average SAT scores in the 1000-1100 range can handle the coursework and intensity of an average class at those universities, you aren’t looking at the big picture.</p>