Some Journalists are level headed

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The truth is: no other school WANTS an analysis of their student-athlete's academic rigors at their school because of what might be uncovered.

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Michael A. Lough: It probably happens at your school, too

It's not even football season, and we're reminded how almost non-existent the memories are of fans in the Southeastern Conference.

They're taking great joy in the story about a professor at Auburn whose curriculum was not the most exhaustive in the land. Or maybe in his own home.

The New York Times reported that some athletes took a "class" that involved almost no attendance and little real academic work.

In other words, the class we all looked for in college, right? Riiiight.

Suddenly, the memory-challenged SEC fans are giggling at the chance to make fun of another while typically forgetting their own school's public foibles.

Pot, this is Kettle. Ah, you've met. And forgot? Shocking.

Aforementioned fanatics might check the class attendance of many of their own gridiron or hoop heroes.

Engage a few of those alleged 3.2 student-athletes in a conversation, or offer a basic academic/intelligence test. You'll check that grading system, even at the self-proclaimed brilliant institutions.

Shoot, folks, one need not go far to find jock-sniffing classroom leaders even at the high school level. Wonder why this or that kid doesn't make it into a college yet carries a "good student" label? Coasting, courtesy of a teacher.

Note, too, that this wasn't an athlete-specific class. This wasn't constructed by an "academic advisor to the athletic department" working in an "academic center for athletes", also known in many cases as "babysitters in the jocks' library." Plenty of non-athletes were in the cruise-control class.

But let's not let something like that interrupt the piling on.

You don't think there are bakers - giving out creampuff course outlines - in Athens or Atlanta? Or at every college in the land with a team?

Hah. Let me into your world of fantasy. It must be a happy place.