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McGrath Lewis says the current movement toward the reduction of athletic recruits could perpetuate a stereotype of athletes as “just athletes” which, at Harvard, she insists, they are decidedly not.
Unlike their counterparts at schools that offer athletic scholarships—which are forbidden in the Ivy League—coaches at Harvard have always had to grapple with the fact that athletes, even recruited ones, can quit their sports whenever they want.
This promises to be a contentious process, since some schools may favor cutting the five recruits with the lowest academic indexes, while others may seek to eliminate recruits with the least athletic promise. Yet others may seek to trim recruits more evenly from among the various academic groupings, or ?...
“Failure to see where the intensification of athletic programs is leading us,” The Game of Life continues, “could have the unintended consequence of allowing intercollegiate athletics to become less and less relevant to the educational experiences of most students and more...
But as Siedlecki notes, it seems inevitable that athletic recruiting will be scaled back in the coming years.