GCU has academics now? When did that happen?
US News and World Report rankings doesn't seem to think so.
Who cares? College athletes are paid professional free agents now. Academics literally has nothing to do with anything anymore (sadly). Grand Canyon is going to continue to do just fine and they and the WAC are running laps around the MAC.
Who cares? Well, with all the ridicule of Kent State on here ("Kent read, Kent write, etc) apparently people do care about academics. However, when you look up the academic ranking of Kent State, you will see they are many light years ahead of GCU. I agree that the new "wild west" NCAA with little to no rules enforcement is an embarrassment to supposedly amateur athletics and the concept of student-athletes. GCU is the only for-profit D-1 basketball team. It's a publicly traded stock on the Nasdaq just like Starbucks and Dollar Tree.
If the NCAA had any balls, Tennessee football would already be on ten lifetime death penalty bans. Then again, if Aunt Debbie had huevos she would be Uncle Debbie.