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This may be the case at some places...but as much as people would like to not believe (particularly those purple pussy cats in Kansas) at Nebraska the student athletes do go to class.
How do I know? Well, simply because I have class with them. The starting shooting guard for the men's basketball team is in my small group in my sociology class. I'm practically in charge of helping him get the material. He's not the only one who has been in my classes. The football teams starting kicker was in my chemistry classes last year, the starting weakside linebacker was in my sociology class last semester...and all of them were always present for tests, and probably had better class attendance than I did.
Do the athletes get perks?Of course, they can get people to take notes for them, they can get tutors paid for by the Athletic Department, I wouldn't be surprised if they had a better test file system than all the fraternities and sororities on campus put together. Do I feel this is fair? Maybe not, but I realize that sports were the way that most of these people were able to get to go to college. This is not true of all student athletes (one of my pledge brothers was on the Tennis team last year) but in my experience I've found that the athletes need the help. I got into school by getting a 34 on my ACT, they got into school by being able to score 34 on the basketball court. I don't need the same type of help they need, but the help they're getting is allowing them to get a college education that they might have never had the chance to get otherwise, and isn't that the point?
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