[NU Sports] OSU game highlighted Randy Walker's shortcomings

[Hakirsch at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/16/2005 12:14:38 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
jeffb at hilgraeve.com writes:

> What your focus on prop 48 DOES suggest is the premise that the best
> football players are illiterate African Americans who don't value education.
> The corollary is that institutions who value football over education will
> prostitute themselves in order to admit these players and will create a
> special football-student status so that they can get on the field.  The
> conclusion is that institutions like NU can't compete.
> 

Please, this is very far from what I am saying--Our  academic standards are 
higher than most. One way that this is apparant is by  the amount of schools 
who take prop 48 kids. Unfortunately for a whole host of socio-economic reasons, 
African- Americans are dis -proportionately represented in the pool of prop 
48 kids -(-see John Thompson)-However, there are plenty of African-American 
kids who are eligible and  RW has clearly found some of them and I suspect NU and 
the kids most of the time are both better off for it. There are also plenty 
of kids of all backgrounds who are great athletes but don't measure up to NU 
academically- Obviously part of -RW's job is to find those that are and convince 
them to attend--It's not easy when a large number of top athletes can't be 
admitted for academic reasons, but I don't think any of us would want it any 
other way

-Again all I am saying is that look at other football programs with similar 
academic standards have not been consistent top 10 teams--why should we expect 
us to be any different ?

Harry