When Alabama, OSU, South Carolina, or even UCLA gets within 10 percentage points of a 98% graduation rate for scholarship football players, you let me know. For that matter, let me know when Tennessee does as well. No logical difference? - the proof that there is can be found in the graduation rates.
Come on, Aging. Your ACT and SAT scores are higher than South Carolina's...but both your and their football players have significantly lower scores than the rest of the student populations of the two schools. Your graduation rates are higher than South Carolina's, but unless you hit 100% every year, it is still a matter of degree that you are at 98% and they are at 85% (or whatever they are).
In fact, one could say that, in part, NU's failure to get more juniors and redshirt sophomores into the NFL is a sign of a less successful football program, not a more successful academic one. If an NU student leaves school after only two years, then starts her own company and becomes a billionaire making a real difference in people's lives with her products, you embrace her. You don't bemoan the fact that she lowered your graduation percentage by some small amount. Less world-changing, but the same idea can be applied to successful NFL and NBA athletes.
As I said very early in this thread, once you're on the slippery slope, it's a bit unbecoming to argue about how you're higher up it than the other guy. You're still there together.
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