Fairly useless unless you know the institution in question, how widespread the problem is, and whether or not it has been worsening. My personal observation is

Fairly useless unless you know the institution in question, how widespread the problem is, and whether or not it has been worsening. My personal observation is that many of the structure in question is oriented specifically towards jocks who are recruited for their brawn and not brains and are expected to spend much more time building muscle than exercising their noggins. Given that my personal observation is limited to an ivy league institution, I'd imagine this would be all the more so at a large public institution in the American South, in which sports are probably considered more important than book smarts. Moreover, many of the recruits (coming from impoverished inner-city schools where they are moved from grade to grade regardless of their performance) are likely completely incapable of performing basic algebra, let alone the sort of math they would be expected to do in standard university level courses. In other words, this sort of behavior is entirely expected given the nature of these institutions and probably is a fixture in them, likely neither worsening nor improving.