An Associated Press review of admissions data submitted to the NCAA by most of the 120 schools in college football's top tier shows that athletes enjoy strinkingly better odds of having admission requirements bent on their behalf.
The review identified at least 27 schools where athletes were at least 10 times more likely to benefit from special admission programs than students in the general population.
That group includes 2009 Bowl Championship Series teams Oregon, Georgia Tech and Alabama, which is playing Texas for the national title Jan. 7.
At Alabama, 19 football players got in as part of a special admissions program from 2004 to 2006, the most recent years available in the NCAA report. The school tightened its standards for "special admits" in both 2004 and 2007, but from 2004 through 2006, Crimson Tide athletes were stil more than likely to benefit from such exemptions.
Alabama coach Nick Saban offered no apologies.
Six schools besides Texas reported NO use of special admissions on campus: Air Force, Connecticut, Kansas State, Purdue, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Read full story from AL.com HERE.
It's common for the academic requirements to vary from conference-to-conference; for example, the SEC requires an extra math credit than does the Big East. However, up until now it was a common thought that the acadmeic requirements were fairly consistent across the SEC.
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