In a message dated 1/5/2003 9:09:36 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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"> How do YOU know what Welch was recruited for?  And how do you know if he
> was a good student or a marginal student?  As a matter of fact Welch is
> not stupid, if he was a marginal student, Lucia would not have been
> interested in trying to get Welch to succeed"
>
> This would be a great observation except that Welch is not like other
> undergraduate students-he had special admission standards and a concomitant
> obligation to put his entire college experience at the beck and call of his
> would be academic Svengali- Lucia. How many "student athletes" are there in
> D1? The hypocrisy is expecting hockey players who are brought in to play
> hockey to be students and practice 20 hours a week and travel every
> weekend.