I don’t mind the guy making big bucks but I don’t understand why he gets an academic incentive at all. Academic achievement is up to the professors.
The NCAA has incentives for those teams with good academic rates. Namely more SCOLARSHIPS, which equates to better players, which equates to winning more games, which equates to more TV revenues. It’s all about the money folks.
They allow him to populate his team with “students” who would not otherwise have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting into Michigan. This is a way to act like it all isn’t a complete joke, which it is (not to pick on Michigan).
College coaches are considered to be big drivers of the academic achievement of their players. And probably rightly so when you start looking at the numbers, there are very clearly coaches that want their players to do well in classes and coaches want their players to stay eligible and nothing more.
Academic achievement is up to the students.