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When I say that education takes second place to hockey I'm referring to the
school's point of view which may or may not equate with the player/student.
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Right, and if you believe any of the Ivies put athletics before academics, you
are fooling yourself. Just as they don't want 1000's of nerds walking around
their campuses, they don't want 1000's of "dumb jocks" either. I would be
willing to bet that all 8 of the college presidents resent the fact that the
Ivy League was formed originally as an athletic conference. There is a reason
why there is an oft running joke that whenever an Ivy school has any success at
all athletically the academics view it as "too successful" and feel the need to
make it tougher.

Dartmouth spends $10.8 million annually on 34 varsity sports. That $10.8M is
chump change compared to what gets spent on the rest of the college.

Just because someone gets an extra check in the plus column in the admissions
process because he is an athlete doesn't mean the college/university is placing
athletics before education. Change "athlete" to "disadvantaged minority" or
"high school newspaper editor" or whatever makes one person stand out above
others, and tell me you would still complain about it.