In a main front page article DBR says:
Secretary of education Arne Duncan is pushing a proposal to bar schools which graduate less than 40% of their players from the NCAA tournament.
However, while Duncan is free to advocate, the NCAA is a private organization and as such should be free to regulate itself as it sees fit and does not need his help nor his advice.
Mr. Duncan’s primary responsibility is K-12 public schools. He should have plenty there to keep him busy without wasting time worrying about the NCAA tournament.
The authors seem quick to forget that enormous amounts of federal money go to colleges and universities - both public and private. Any university leader knows that there are strings attached to federal money. Don't take the money if you don't want to play by the rules. And the idea that somehow the US Department of Education does not have an interest in post-secondary education is just silly beyond belief. And as regards graduation rates, just how well has the NCAA regulated itself? Pretty much not at all.
This sounds like the knd of statement that would come from a web site owned by and affiliated with a sports blog, not one affiliated with a major university with a proud academic tradition. Oh, I forgot for a minute . . . it is now a web site owned by and affiliated with a sports blog, and that really shows through in the above article.