<p>Something else about comparisons with Stanford.</p>
<p>Stanford is known to have considerable [grade</a> inflation](<a href=“http://www.gradeinflation.com/Stanford.html]grade”>Stanford), with an average undergraduate GPA of 3.55 in 2005.</p>
<p>Andrew Luck’s 3.51 GPA (qualifying for the second team in the [Pac-10</a> All-Academic team](<a href=“http://www.pac-10.org/News/tabid/863/Article/216028/marecic-mohamed-highlight-pac-10-all-academic-football-team.aspx]Pac-10”>http://www.pac-10.org/News/tabid/863/Article/216028/marecic-mohamed-highlight-pac-10-all-academic-football-team.aspx)) is pretty much average at Stanford. While it certainly is better than the stereotype of football players as being below average students, it is not as impressive as it may look to outsiders.</p>
<p>But the grade inflation may help Stanford recruit athletes who are somewhat more serious about academics because they can place more athletes in athlete academic lists to show how the school takes athletes’ academic performance seriously. And note that some sports columnists were impressed by Luck’s GPA in their opinions as to why Luck should win the Heisman Trophy.</p>