Georgia Gets Athletes to Attend Class

The University of Georgia has implemented a policy of punishing students who continually skip their classes and academic appointments with small fines and suspensions. The initial trial semester has displayed that the policy is quite effective at getting student-athletes to attend classes and improving the overall GPA of the athletes at Georgia.

It is always a good thing when administrators, especially at a very big, very successful school like Georgia, realize that academics is the reason people go to college, not sports. They don’t call them student-athletes for nothing. The fines are only $10 per class, which doesn’t seem like much except when you look back on how many classes you missed in college and start to do the math.

Luckily, StubHub.com does not believe in fining you for not showing up to sporting games. In fact, you can make money by missing games and selling your Georgia Bulldogs Basketball tickets.

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