Academic Rules: Division 1 Athletics

Division 1 Athletes go to school thinking about one thing: sports.  These athletes could most likely not care less how they are doing academically, as long as they are performing athletically.  The rule is that a student athlete has to keep his/her grades up in order to be allowed to perform on the field. Specifically a 2.3 GPA average, which is equivalent to a C+. There have been reports of athletes getting all their work done by their "tutors".  Although there are many cases of schools trying to boost their "student athletes" GPA's, one specific case belongs to The University of South Carolina.  The University of South Carolina was steering their athletes into a GPA booster.  The athletes took specific, easy courses that they would be able to pass with hardly trying at all.  The school got charged with; violations of NCAA legislation regarding academic fraud; impermissible benefits; impermissible participation; unethical conduct; failure to monitor; preferential treatment; failure to cooperate and failure to report outside income.