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Message: [QUOTE="Dokey, post: 3965057, member: 9636"] Given the number of games UConn women play and the amount of travel required, I would like to know what procedures are used to allow the women to succeed in classroom. I have been impressed by those who actually manage to graduate in less than four years. Today I got a notice from the Colorado coach that five of her players earned four points during the season (65 total CU athletes earned four points). I don’t know if UConn releases that information. Only a few players will play pro ball and even those who do so will only have a few years to play. I also wonder how academics influence recruiting. Boulder and other Colorado towns host the major softball recruiting tournament in the country. There is a box attached to every backstop where the coach can put profiles of his players. The concentration on those profiles is academics, not softball skills—that is demonstrated on the field or in tapes. College coaches don’t want to waste a scholarship on a player who could become academically ineligible. I was in the room almost 60 years ago when I heard two starters on the men’s bb team plead with a history professor not to flunk them. He explained he bent over backwards to accommodate their schedule. They were declared academically ineligible. I see high school girls rated for their basketball skills—we will have three No. 1s next year—but which top programs, like Stanford, have an edge in recruiting players who also excell in the classroom? That doesn’t mean that basketball scholarships shouldn’t be given to less than stellar high school students but hopefully programs that take such players have the staff and procedures to help them succeed. I am sure there are programs that wink at academics and enroll such students in the equivalent of basket weaving 101. Whenever the major includes the word “sports” you have to wonder, recognizing that many athletes actually want to pursue a career in sports in some capacity. [/QUOTE]

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