Of course, the difference is the graduates have an active duty military service requirement upon graduation.
You can forget about a job during the school year, as my ROTC commitments were 15-20 hours a week, plus a weekend of training every month. I did have a job for my first two summers in college, while the summer of my junior year was consumed by ROTC summer camp.
Players at Gonzaga and other schools take advantage of the summer session by taking 6-12 hours to get them ahead of the curve. They also assist the coaches with the hoops camps during the summer.
One of our players, Corey Kispert, was named Scholar-Athlete of the Year, for schools that don't have football.
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Gonzaga and Michigan stood out in a study that seeded men’s and women’s NCAA Tournament brackets based on graduation rates, academic success and diversity in the head-coaching ranks.
The Zags were a No. 1 seed in both brackets released Thursday by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at Central Florida, while the Wolverines were a 1-seed in the men’s bracket and a 3-seed in the women’s bracket.
https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/study-gonzaga-michigan-top-academics-based-ncaa-brackets-69942984
Unlike football, ROTC is important. Does Gonzaga still recruit a lot of international players. It always seems like their team spans the globe. That would probably explain the academic success.
ROTC has that additional work load. But technically, if you can manage the hours you can get a job. NCAA that’s “external reward” and you can’t do it, not without risking punishment. NCAA is really obsessed with not having athletes make money.