Something has to give. And then we'll have to make him graduate, it's like giving him an honorary degree. Universities interested in education would abolish these. Even a non-com like myself reads about slush funds at famous universities and about bidding for talent. A Big Ten university once grabbed a star who could not pass third-year high school, gave him a college entrance test and declared him eligible.
Athletes are popular and heroic figures on the campus and sometimes in the nation.
I think that because of the pressures on them and the demand for victory, professors, coaches and deans have more than common responsibilities in regard to possible corruption. First and last, I love football and other sports. I have enjoyed the way some of my well-muscled boys have considered games. In class I asked a fullback, famous for making first downs, what he played football for. My interpretation, unreleased until now, was that he took football as a holy war.