[JLS]

... but only goes to show that Duke is serious about graduating athletes across the board.

It is not up to Duke to graduate ANY of its students. It is up to its students TO DO WHAT IS REQUIRED to graduate IF THEY SO WISH.

If someone comes to a major university to play sports, to work on their creative writing, to work on their acting skills, to work with a particular artist ect, and does not chose to graduate that is their business. It is not Duke nor ANY college's job to graduate any particular student or class of students.

This do you graduate your "players" is leftist bilge. It runs against individual responsibility. Its most likely result will be to corrupt the academic side of universities as coaches, boosters or players pressure profs to give away graded or adminstrators to change recorded grades without the profs knowledge.

[Locomotive Breath]

It's Duke's choice who they admit. Would you be in agreement if I rephrased to say that Duke admits, as athletes, only students who take their classwork seriously, are capable of doing the classwork, and are required to complete classwork at the same level as non-athlete students? If Duke and its coaches didn't take seriously the academic success of its student athletes then it would not matter what the student athletes did. There's a reason some schools are known as "football factories".