Daniel Glumac writes:
:The whole point of offering a scholarship to an athlete is SUPPOSED to be
:for educating him.  In that case, the benefit should be given to
:citizens of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.  Not foreigners.  Period.
:Maybe that's why people think they should recruit instate.
 
That's right!  We sure as hell don't want no G*dd*mn foreigners learnin'
at our loonie-varsities!!
 
The above is meant to be sarcasm.  On a more serious note, I fail to see
the logic behind Mr. Glumac's statement.  I think a coach should recruit
good student-athletes wherever they may be found.  I suppose that it is
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possible that an American athlete (or in the case of UMinn., a Minnesotan)
may be denied a scholarship on the basis of a more qualified athlete being
brought in from outside the US.  But using citizenship (or in-state status)
as a basis for not considering some prospects, strikes me as extraordinarily
provincial.  The kind of provincialism that, when carried to an extreme,
leads to the ethnic infighting in places like Yugoslavia.  (Carried to an
extreme, extreme :)
 
By the way, this *is* the kind of provincialism at the state legislature
that has made it more difficult for UMinnesota to attract the best graduate
students possible, and thereby has made it more difficult to improve (one
aspect) of their academic programs.  (I spent 6 years there not so long ago,
and was very active in campus politics then.)
 
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