Report: 48% Of Broncos Take Easy Classes

Report: NCAA student-athletes ‘beating the system,’ former Bronco calls system ‘a joke’ /USA Today, Idaho Statesman

More Info: Forty-eight percent of players on the 2007 Boise State football team majored in communications, according to a USA Today investigation on how toughening academic requirements for athletes has helped create an environment in which they are more likely to graduate than other students — but also more likely to be clustered in programs without the academic demands most students face.

Related: BSU players, AD dispute USA Today report ; and: Ex-Bronco responds to article /Kevin Richert

Question: Would you be surprised if a significant number of football players at major universities, like Boise State, took “basket-weaving classes” to muster good grades so they could play on Saturdays?