The New York Times is reporting that some Auburn football players, and you’re not going to believe this, had some really easy classes. I know! Shocking, right? To think that there are colleges and universities out there who tolerate this sort of thing is absolutely chilling. If they don’t step in and stop this, soon you’re going to have players who just outright skip class. We just can’t stand for it.

Here’s the gist of the story, which the New York Times broke. Some high-ranking professor at Auburn gave out grades to football players, while very little classroom work was required of them. I’m sure the requirements were different in various cases, though former Auburn DE Doug Lengenfeld told the Times that he took a class that required him to read one book and write one 10-page paper.

Which, to me, suggests that if the professor’s goal was to give a really easy grade, he wasn’t that good at it. I expected something more along the lines of, “Read this excerpt from Penthouse Letters, and tell me how it made you feel,” or “Spell your name right, and you get an A. Spell it wrong, and I’ll give you a B, as long as you manage to make some sort of mark on the paper with your pencil.”

Perhaps I’m jaded, but… this doesn’t seem like much of a story to me. I would be shocked to learn that this sort of thing doesn’t go on nearly everywhere, and in most cases, things much worse than this. I’m not sure why this qualifies as a story, actually. It’s like someone wrote an article criticizing Rae Carruth for smoking unfiltered cigarettes. Yeah, maybe it’s bad, but… it probably wouldn’t be hard to find something much worse.