While six University of Tennessee football players will sit out today’s (Monday’s) Outback Bowl due to academic ineligibility, the Badgers have no such problem.
Could one reason be that University of Wisconsin athletes take many independent “directed study” courses involving one student and one professor that yield a high percentage of top grades?
A review of hundreds of records for directed study courses between summer 2004 and spring 2007 by The Capital Times did not yield conclusive evidence of a problem, but it did reveal patterns that have been viewed as warning signs at other universities around the country.