This is bad news?

Now we read that Florida State has football players who read at a second grade level.

This is somewhat unfair for a couple of reasons. First, we ought to be celebrating evidence that college football players can read at all. Second, we should level the...um, let's just say we should make our judgements uniform. I rather suspect that there are college football players for whom a second grade reading level would be a step up. Numbers of them probably play for the institutions that have those smarmy paeans to academic excellence that appear in lieu of more entertaining commercials from time to time. I assume college administrators can read; they can sure count. So suppose we tie their air time during college games directly to the academic performance of their teams. I'd be happy to be bored during the commercials (I'm usually not watching then anyway) in return for some slight hint that these young persons were actually getting an education.

But what do I know?