Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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For some reason I've always remembered this LSU lyric from a now-probably-banned Randy Newman song:
"College men from LSU
Went in dumb, came out dumb too
Hustling 'round Atlanta in their alligator shoes
getting drunk every weekend at the barbecues"

Don't know if it's still true, but as someone who spent time in Atlanta, it feels pretty accurate from a couple decades ago.
Those are some pretty darn good lyrics actually
 
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Isn't that the case for most universities when it comes to football and basketball? My brother-in-law who was Dean of the Yale Music School for some 10 years told me more than once that Yale does plenty of rule bending when it comes to highly talented players in those two sports. If you want to find schools that hold athletes in "revenue" sports to the same standard of admission as other students, you'd probably have to look at D3, where there are no athletic scholarships.
Having taught at a highly ranked Div. III school I can tell you that they give an inordinate number of 'leadership' scholarships to students who happen to be athletically gifted.
 
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sacraig

The desert
Isn't that the case for most universities when it comes to football and basketball? My brother-in-law who was Dean of the Yale Music School for some 10 years told me more than once that Yale does plenty of rule bending when it comes to highly talented players in those two sports. If you want to find schools that hold athletes in "revenue" sports to the same standard of admission as other students, you'd probably have to look at D3, where there are no athletic scholarships.
Sure. I was mostly just pointing out that Tulane actually is a good school, though I'm surprised they'd "graduate" someone who is functionally illiterate, even an athlete.

Caltech holds their "athletes" to the same standard as the rest. The results speak for themselves, even in D3.
 
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pruman91

Paducah, Ky
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Almost 10 am without a new recruiting thread............................wow..................

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