Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 9:00 AM by Gene

But the annual academic scorecard was less flattering to many of the sport's top-tier programs. Seven of the top 10 — including No. 1 Auburn, No. 2 Oregon and No. 3 Boise State — and 16 of the top 25 in the current Bowl Championship Series standings fell beneath the sport's four-year average. Oklahoma and Arizona graduated fewer than half of their players.

The numbers also were low in the other marquee college sport, men's basketball, where three of last season's eight NCAA regional finalists and more than one in five programs overall had four-year rates beneath 50%.

It's the same old story with the same new stats: If we count badminton and tennis and lots of other less-than-full time sports of course their participants graduate; and the high-end schools will boost the average because their students may be trying to get an education; and we also suspect Title IX and the destruction of men's sports may slant the numbers; but these two BIG younuhversuhtee moneymakers will NEVER change.

To be sure we should keep two things in mind: 1. How many regular students graduate at these schools? and 2. How much do the younuhversuhtees grease their athletes' skids?