The academic requirements are in line with other Sun Belt and CUSA schools.
I've never seen any evidence of the whole academic requirements issue from back then. It was only ever mentioned while Troy was winning the Sun Belt, of course. When Arkansas State and ULL started winning the Sun Belt, the same questions were brought up about their academics as well (for really no good reason).
Now, what I do know is that from 2004 to roughly 2011 or so, Larry Blakeney would oversign recruits. Troy would have recruiting classes exceeding 25 and sometimes 30 players. Nick Saban was also doing the same thing at Alabama at that time. It was "legal" by NCAA standards to do it back then, so Blakeney technically never did anything wrong. He was just recruiting the high 3-star, 4-star, and sometimes 5-star athletes that most schools thought wouldn't make the grades to get into college. Blakeney was hoping that they'd wind up making their grades. It worked out well on many occasions and Troy got some phenomenal players that kept their head straight and graduated college. Some others either flunked out their freshman year or left Troy to go to JUCO. Whether that was a good idea or bad idea by Blakeney is up for debate. Either way, Troy hasn't recruited that way in years now.
Troy has great recruits now because we have some fantastic assistant coaches that have been getting the job done in a big way.