Grade inflation at SC

[hoosier]

Fellow alums may be as shocked as I was with the last line in this article. It's hard to believe the whole school averages a 3.01 GPA.

Back in the "good ole days" the "Gentleman's 'C'" was almost acceptable, when the school GPA was less than 2.5.

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COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Things were not quite as rosy in the classroom this past semester for South Carolina athletes, including the football and men's basketball teams.
The school said the overall grade-point-average for its 457 athletes was 2.823 last term, slightly lower than the 2.865 mark posted a year ago.

Grades for the football and men's basketball team also dipped in the recently concluded semester. Coach Lou Holtz's team posted a 2.381 GPA, down from its fall semester record high of 2.511 set a year ago. Men's basketball had the lowest GPA this term, 2.220, of South Carolina's 17 sports teams.

Coach Dave Odom's team was at 2.49 for the fall semester of 2001.

Eight of South Carolina's teams had a GPA of at least 3.0 - or a B average - on a scale of 4.0. Women's golf led the way at 3.532. Then came women's swimming (3.377), men's tennis (3.297), women's soccer (3.283), men's swimming (3.233), men's golf (3.152), softball (3.071) and women's tennis (3.028).

The rest of the teams were equestrian (2.951), volleyball (2.949), women's track (2.918), men's track (2.849), baseball (2.848), men's soccer (2.802) and women's basketball (2.545).

The overall GPA for full-time students at the university was 3.01 for the fall semester.