The article actually claims completely falsely that BMI measures body fat percentage (a much more accurate metric). I wonder if this is actually poor reporting of the fact that body fat % is taken in to account. If you look over the school's football roster most of the players are actually obese. I can't imagine the school has enough blind faith in BMI to put football players in a class on fitness.

rooster: http://www.lulions.com/roster.aspx?path=football&roster=...;

Ok, maybe BMI is not a good metric but I'm sure the administrator of the school can make the difference between 200lbs of muscles and 200lbs of fat.

Similarly: When my career-military ex husband was on recruiting duty, he and all of the other recruiters at a conference (state-wide?) were told they were "overweight" by the height-weight tables of some insurance guy there. Every last one of them had to pass the PT test to remain in the military and could not be overweight. (The military accounts for such possibilities and has an alternate "tape test" standard which generally works well for those guys who are "overweight" due to bodybuilding -- or did at that time. I don't know what the current standards are.)