The Drake Group is a national coalition of faculty members dedicated to defending academic integrity in the face of the burgeoning college sports industry by lobbying for proposals that will enable faculties to provide college athletes with access to an education.

Former intercollegiate athlete students such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jerry West, Larry Bird, “Magic” Johnson, Cheryl Miller, Nancy Lieberman-Cline, Dominique Dawes,Wilma Rudolph, Jackie Joyner Kersey, Walter Payton, Jackie Robinson, and Jim Brown have become household legends.