<p>What was Bill Bradleys or Raalph Nader’s SAT score. As I recall they were both around 1000 which is pretty poor for a middleclass white kid and comparable to some kid from a poor family in Chicago getting 900. </p>
<p>The grad rates have some serious holes. The exclude transfers out and NFL signees. Signing an NFL contract for well into six and seven figures is good sense and most good programs have a few guys each year who leave to take the $$$.</p>
<p>Now what is the overall grad rate for LSU and how does the football team compare if you count an NFL draftee as equal to a graduate? I don’t know–just asking.</p>
<p>the 2006 grad rate doens’t count transfers out as non-graduating students. there are 99 athletes on lsu team, averaging about 25 per year. only 51% graduated in 2006; that means 12 guys didn’t graduate. how many of those 12 guys entered NFL? just a few like you said. besides, i don’t know if i really want to give those NFL signees the benefit of doubt that they would graduate had they not entered NFL.</p>
<p>Hey check out Grinnell’s run and gun “system”. I love that my son’s college even does sports weirdly.</p>
<p>but then i shouldn’t just pick on lsu, schools like cal and usc are very much like lsu. you’d expect they do better but they don’t.</p>