For the 2008 fall semester,110 athletes had a 3.0 or better. 24 of them were football players, who were not walk-ons padding the numbers. (That was also their busiest training semester.) That's about a third of all athletes and even better for the football team. I don't know the percent for the non-athletes of the student body, but I doubt that it is any higher.
UTC pushes for tougher admissions
For the 2008 fall semester,110 athletes had a 3.0 or better. 24 of them were football players, who were not walk-ons padding the numbers. (That was also their busiest training semester.) That's about a third of all athletes and even better for the football team. I don't know the percent for the non-athletes of the student body, but I doubt that it is any higher.