[NU Sports] Off-Topic: Amaker

[Roy Lamberton]

I would suspect that the inappropriate contact by the booster would cause
"issues" just about anywhere in Div I. That a coach would suddenly appear in an
out of town supermarket where the kid just happened to be smacks of forced
coincidence which would also raise hackles around D-I

The cover of the Northwestern Alumni magazine this month has a picture of an
alum who didn't have the "numbers" to get into Medill, but did and graduated -
not sure if the 171 is arbitrary, but I think Denny Green said that there are no
"dumb" ballplayers.

Stanford makes its kids apply and be accepted before they're allowed to commit.
The section on Harvard's admission letters seems to be similar, but hey, that's
the "NU of the East's" system, not ours.

So to recap - the booster and coach contact would - the rest is an issue for the
conference and admissions office. 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
> Behalf Of Christopher Bailey
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 10:55 AM
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: [NU Sports] Off-Topic: Amaker
> 
> 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
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