Larry,

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!  Some intelligent people
are just lazy or lack the proper motivation to handle everything on
their plate. These people are called underachievers. It doesn't make
them marginal or stupid.

Welch just couldn't or didn't want to get it all together, had more than
a couple of chances to make it right and didn't.  I applaud Lucia for
standing his ground, even though it means the Gophers lose a good hockey
player.

-Carol
GO Gophers!!!

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> This is
> big time college hockey and Welch was not recruited for his academic prowess
> or given a free ride based upon his keen intellect and there are any number
> of Minnesotans who would never be admitted to Gopher U with Welch's (or many
> of his teammates) his grades and low test scores-so Lucia recruits to win not
> to ennoble scholars. The hypocrisy of taking marginal "students" loading them
> up with the rigors of a sport like hockey and then taking the athlete to task
> is all part of the Faustian bargain that big time college athletics and
> universities have made with each other-give me a break.