I think the length of seasons has a lot to do with it.  Hockey plays its 34
games over 4 months, while basketball crams 90% of its games in January and
February.  The lack of class time for the hoopsters can lead to all sorts of
abuses to keep you stars academically eligible.

Joe
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Subject: Re: Michigan Tech/elimination of football "Scholar athletes"


> Given that all schools will bend their rules to admit exceptional
athletes -
> why not eliminate the sham of making athletes attend classes if they do
not
> want to- if a school wants to pay them so be it- the hypocrisy shown at St
> Bonaventure and Georgia is endemic to a system that makes a winner - a
winner
> - and all else losers regardless of their integrity etc.