[NU Sports] Must-read

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And while Creighton is no Harvard (I mean NU!) its a fine Jesuit School that claims Coach Paul Silas as one of its alumni 

Harry
------Original Message------
From: Mike Nolan
To: tbng at comcast.net
Cc: Beamsley Jeff
Cc: Jonathan Hodges
Cc: Harry
Cc: Northwestern Wildcats
Cc: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Must-read
Sent: Mar 16, 2012 8:03 PM

In 1991, a former Creighton University basketball player sued the school. 

See http://openjurist.org/957/f2d/410/ross-v-creighton-university

When he took the ACT exam in high school he scored in the bottom 20%.
How he got admitted to Creighton was not explained, but clearly Creighton
could not have applied the same standards they did for other applicants.

During the time he was at the school (1978-1982) he had a D average and got 96 
credit hours (out of 128 needed to graduate), but according to his court filings 
they were mostly in courses like 'Marksmanship' and 'Theory of Basketball'.

At the time he left school, he was said to have only 4th grade language skills
and a 7th grade reading level.  

I'd like to think this couldn't happen in 2012, but I'm not convinced it couldn't
still happen at SOME schools.
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Mike Nolan







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