My son spent one year at a D1 Juco. He had no offers out of high school, decided on JUCO and a chance to get to a D1 over some D3 opportunities he had, his academics were very good. He received several D1 offers for the rest of his education after his freshman year and graduated after 3 years at a good Mid level D1. There was definitely some talent there but a lot of the players put the minimum effort into their classes, they just didn't care. Several received D1 offers but didn't do the work to get in to the D1 school. I guess my point is at least in my sons school many of the players were less than good students and one better be willing to put in the work to get good grades and avoid getting caught in the trap of hanging with the guys and not doing the schoolwork.