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WAY before Saban, it was when Dietzel was AD. History major ( I CLEP'd out of 12 hrs of English but wound up suffering through Comp anyway with those players.) I would hope the tutoring policy has changed by now, but I'm guessing that star recruits in profitable sports are still admitted even if they don't meet academic standards.
Depends on what the "standard" is. You're probably aware of how it works, but almost no athletic departments make recruited student-athletes go through the same admissions process as the regular student body. Some schools also have more selective admissions than others, so it can make the difference between the average academics created between those of athletes and the regular student body.
I remember years ago at Cal, they had something they called the A/B/C/D system with annual quotas. They were classified as A (meeting minimum University of California eligibility standards), B (minor deficiencies such as not meeting 1 or 2 class admission requirements or minor GPA/test requirement issues), C (moderate), and D (as low as NCAA minimum eligibility requirements). They had a rough annual quota with a max incoming D tagged admissions at 4, C+D maxed at 16, and B+C+D at maybe 60. There was no limit on the A category. Even then, these were all tagged admissions, since meeting minimum UC eligibility didn't necessarily mean being admitted to a particular campus. For the C and D categories it required that the coach provide an assessment of how the student-athlete was going to improve academic performance. It also required an assessment the athlete is considered a "blue chip" recruit.
I looked it up and it's been revamped. Now the basic standard is that they need to meet UC eligibility requirements other than "limited exceptions".
https://academic-senate.berkeley.ed...lete_admissions_policy_2016-2017_approved.pdf
We intend “exception” to be understood in the general sense, meaning that they have academic profiles significantly different from the average admit. These offers can total no more than 0.25% of all offers in an admissions cycle.
We intend “exception” to be understood in the general sense, meaning that they have academic profiles significantly different from the average admit. These offers can total no more than 0.25% of all offers in an admissions cycle.
However, the big deal these days is the "Academic Progress Rate", which is a complex single-year and multi-year average attempt to classify if student-athletes are on the way to graduation. It gets somewhat complicated because there are athletes who leave early to go pro and generally don't graduate. I believe they're trying to make it such that athletes who withdraw but are in good academic standing don't hurt that badly.
http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/research/division-i-academic-progress-rate-apr