re: NYT's Article Regarding FSU Academic Issues and a Prof's Death

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incinnati, OHIO — The official statement given via Jack Brennan, public relations director for the Cincinnati Bengals, is: “James Brooks was able to function and perform in his football role while with the Bengals. No one was aware there was a problem.”
The “problem” he refers to was the revelation that occurred during a hearing in Judge Steve Martin’s Hamilton County, Ohio, courtroom last month regarding delinquent child support payments in excess of $110,000. James Brooks could not read the court documents; this after graduating from Warner Robins High School in Georgia in 1977 and after spending at least four years at Auburn University in Alabama.
When asked by the judge how he graduated from Auburn, Brooks said, “I didn’t have to go to class.”

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Wow, you had to go back a ways to find that one..Things are a little different now (unless you go to UNC).


Here is something a little more recent...
At Alabama, the most popular football major is general studies in the College of Human Environmental Sciences, the newspaper reported. Twenty-six percent of football players majored in general studies, compared with 2 percent of all Alabama students.
He’s a general studies major in the College of Human Environmental Sciences now because “I screwed up, and this is getting me back on track to graduate.“
Castille was academically ineligible for the Cotton Bowl last season. He became lazy, he said, and passed only three credits in the fall 2005 semester, leading to his ineligibility and a change in major.
One general studies course meant writing about football for former Alabama football player Ahmad Childress. For three credits one summer, Childress said, he and five teammates composed an entire football class that required only instructing a football camp for kids in Gulf Shores and writing a four-page essay.
“That was the whole class. I got an A,” Childress said. “Yeah, it was a little weird, but sometimes you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do to be eligible.“
The dean of Human Environmental Services at Alabama, Milla Boschung, said she was surprised to learn the number of football players in her college, but does not believe general studies has the perception of being a “jock major.”
NOTE: We had sociology as our Jock Major.