[NU Sports] Off-Topic: Amaker

[Christopher Bailey]

Thanks to Paul L. for bringing this article to light.  

To be sure, there is smoke here, but to compare contacts by a 'booster' (a not-yet hired coach) and the coach in a supermarket is hardly akin to what we have seen by, say, the Colorado football program.

I will admit, not hitting the Ivy League standard of 171 on the Academic Index is a different story altogether, but that strikes me as a conference issue more than an NCAA issue.

Ask yourself, would this be causing the same stir at Marquette?  At Virginia?  At Holy Cross?  (To mention just three of the the schools referenced in the story.)  I'm not sure it would have been AS big of an issue at a school like Columbia, which has struggled with basketball success.

I'm hardly a Harvard defender ... to the extent that I follow the Ivy League in sports, I'm a Cornell hockey fan and Princeton basketball fan ... but I really wonder if there isn't more to this because of the high profile of both the institution and the coach.

Just asking.

GO 'CATS!

Christopher Bailey
christopher_bailey at yahoo.com