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[QUOTE="javadoc, post: 1354733, member: 338"]
Football isn't like hoops, in the sense that almost every kid is going to be on campus for four years.  Unless you have enablers in the NCAA who will refuse to enforce any academic standards on your program, you need kids who at least understand that they have to do some classwork.  Pending the disposition of the NCAA case against us, we have little choice but to toe the line on academics.

I think that by definition, when you are selling something and emphasize factor X, you are going to alienate some portion of your potential customers, who either don't like X, or don't care and would rather hear about factor Y.  I've been on record as saying that I don't care if kids get a degree in Mathematics with a concentration in Combinatorics - as long as they stay out of trouble, put in the required effort in football, and get out of school with their eyes opened a bit toward the academics, I'm fine.  It's a minor league to me.  That said, I would rather have us stressing the academics right now, purely as insurance against the kakistocracy that is the NCAA.
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