I saw this question on one of the sports recruiting message boards the other day and I thought it was an amazing question and point of view about student athletes and their grades:
“Should a recruit’s GPA and SAT/ACT score be considered public information just like his 40 time and vertical? Should GPA’s and SAT/ACT scores be taken into account when assigning stars to players in the star rating system?”
In my opinion, they should publish the student athletes’ GPA and their test scores because there have been so many situations where grades were fixed in high school to get a certain athlete placed in college.
This would eliminate cheating on the part of high school coaches and administrators who think they need to have an advantage in recruiting. It would also stop some of these under-handed college coaches when it comes to recruiting.
Privacy should be set aside because you’re offering a high school student athlete an athletic scholarship therefore, it is the right of the public to know all they need to know about the high school athletes.