Excellent post-- and the reason why so many corporation, etc. have their own reading and writing tests as a condition for employment. They cannot count on transcripts or test scores any longer. I had to take a basic reading and writing test to become a beginning teacher in the district I work for. Also, coaches and PE teachers, those who majored in PE, are required to take classes such as physiology and anatomy to satisfy their major. I'm married to a high school coach and he tells me it irritates him to no end when PE majors or coaches are assumed to be idiots who took the easy route in college. College athletes who are lacking in basic skills usually major in communications or ethnic studies, not in PE.
I remember an athlete who said the only book he opened in college Obama’s biography
Huzzah for your own smart Coach-husband!!