"It is just a fact that stud football players with high GPA's prefer Stanford, or ND, or even Duke." Seriously??????

Interesting, the stud football players with high GPA's prefer fine academic institutions where there is absolutely no chance that their NFL dreams will be nuked by one intimate situation with a female, enjoying everything the local campus bar has to offer, or any other number of lifestyle changes the honor code requires of a non-LDS football player. Any number of infractions could cost them a year of eligibility, or a potential unwanted transfer to another university, all for doing something that occurs regularly at any other college campus in the country.

Sure, to a lifetime member of the LDS faith, living the honor code probably isn't viewed as something impossible to do, however, a non-member 18 year old "stud football player" likely sees living the honor code as a monumental task, not to mention, all that is being thrown at the feet of these teen agers, the temptations are very strong.

Not only are your assumptions completely out of touch with today's high school athletes, you also minimalize the efforts of those athletes that have chosen to live the honor code, simply because some other school has a higher GPA requirement?

I suspect you could change the GPA requirement at BYU to the NCAA minimum standard, and by doing so, there would have been a few more "desired" recruits to actually suit up for BYU throughout the years, however, it would not substantially increase the pool of players BYU has to choose from, because no matter what an 18 year old stud football player's GPA is, the honor code is a significant factor.