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Message: [QUOTE="spo023, post: 671000, member: 3443"] I am positive that athletes do not need to meet the same academic qualifications as other students, except for the Ivy League (And even Harvard changed around grades of some of their basketball players grades about a year ago). Generally, some better schools like Stanford and Northwestern like to take kids who won't fail out of school first semester by being overwhelmed in the classroom, but they don't have 85 rocket scientists running around with pads out there. An athlete does not have to have grades up to par with the rest of the school, guaranteed. If that was the case, you'd drastically diminish the player pool and I'd imagine most schools would have 30-40 kids on a team instead of 80-90 [/QUOTE]