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"Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about gettin..." — Derek Bok
Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes.
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