[NU Sports] Interesting interview with Tulane sports law expert

[Roy Lamberton]

I seem to remember comments from someone here on this list who had some part in
the admissions process that suggested that Coach Walker and Coach Carmody had a
certain number of "passes." 

Of course, we can also look back on the report of the Tommy Amaker interview
that also appeared here where he had some HS transcripts of who turned out to be
Duke stars who would not have been accepted at NU.

Both of these stories came from posters who claimed to know the "facts" but I
doubt we'll ever know just how many low qualifiers NU actually admits to play
sports. I know that academics is very important to the guys recruiting all of
the sports at NU and they'd probably rather have a kid with the 3.75 GPA if all
wlse is even.

Of course so would all the other colleges now that progress towards graduation
is becoming so important to the NCAA.

rsl

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Evan Bradley
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 10:42 AM
> To: 'nwu-sports at tssi.com' Sports List
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Interesting interview with Tulane 
> sports law expert
> 
> 
> I'm not sure how admissions for athletes work currently, but 
> if we're not doing this already, I'm curious as to why we'd 
> want to start.
> 
> I'm all for recruiting the best athletes, but if a university 
> admits student-athletes who don't match the academic profile 
> of the rest of the student population, it's:
> 
> a) setting these students up for failure in the classroom, 
> thereby lowering graduation rates and/or increasing the 
> number of athletes who leave early to go pro
> 
> b) risking the reputation of a school where education is 
> supposed to be priority #1 by emulating some of the "lesser" 
> schools lambasted on this list for their stereotypical "dumb 
> jock" rosters.
> 
> The attitude at NU seems to have been that we'll win while 
> keeping our ideals, resulting in athletes that are known for 
> being "smart," and I think most fans are proud of that.
> 
> 
> 
> On 5/28/07, Jim Bendat <thehaze at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > I'm not so sure that we don't already do that.  When my 
> daughter began 
> > her freshman year at NU in the fall of 2005, there were a number of 
> > athletes in her dorm who told her that they wouldn't have 
> made it to 
> > NU were it not for their sports abilities.
> >
> >
> > MHRJGScott at aol.com wrote:
> > > I noted the use of "special admits" at Tulane, why don't we have 
> > > something like that?
> > >
> > > 
> _http://www.nola.com/sports/t-p/index.ssf?/base/sports-31/1180333669
> > > 175280.xml
> > > &coll=1_
> > > 
> (http://www.nola.com/sports/t-p/index.ssf?/base/sports-31/1180
333669175280.xml&coll=1)
> >
> >

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