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Raising Standards And Beating The System: Forget Reform, Richard C. Crepeau
Raising Standards And Beating The System: Forget Reform, Richard C. Crepeau
On Sport and Society
The beauty of intercollegiate athletics and the NCAA attempt to control them is that whatever is done, something else follows that will corrupt the solution. In a perfect world it would also produce new and more elaborate levels of corruption. The current case in point revolves around the attempt by the NCAA to mandate minimum SAT and ACT scores and thus guarantee some modicum of brain wave activity in the recruited student athlete.