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...when asked, Restic will tell you that McInally never had to deal with the same pressures. There weren’t late-night calls from agents, early-morning meetings with scouts. Unlike Morris, who saw teammates like Kacyvenski and Mike Clare ’01 visited by scouts as he grew up, McInally developed in a world largely insulated from such forces...
...It’s much more involved today,” Restic says. “More scouts, more combines. They test them, run them, weigh them. It really complicates it for the young...
Throughout his tenure, Restic worried publicly about the professionalization of college athletics. He saw it in the Ivy League’s demotion to I-AA status in 1981 based largely on TV revenue. He saw it in the elimination of Ivy League freshman football programs in the early 1990s. And he worries still. If ideals are in the mind of the beholder, Restic’s mind is made...
...worry about it at any school,” Restic says. “Once you buy into the professionalism, to whatever degree you do, you’ve bought into the system...
...Restic finishes his interview, and adds that he is very interested in how Morris will do at the Shrine Game. “It will give him a chance to test himself against young men from across the country. Our game is on Jan. 11.” And he says goodbye...