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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 2262355, member: 780"]
I'm sure there are. But a few points you may agree or disagree with.

The assumption that less-qualified athletes are going to get the same educational benefit from an Ivy League school as those who got in without the Athletic "hook" is not warranted. There will be some exceptions to this, but it's generally true.

Not all Ivy athletes are in the bottom tiers of the AI. That goes without saying if you understand the AI, and it sounds like you do. It's a distribution around the average of all students and it varies from school to school (Because H-Y-P kids have higher scores on average than do kids at Penn or Brown)

And on Wall Street ... For whatever reason there are a lot of ex-Lacrosse alums in jobs on Wall Street. I know two real well. One went to Georgetown and one went to Duke as recruited athletes. They are both on Wall Street and are doing well.

It's amazing because both of them are "As dumb as a box of rocks". I'm talking "un-timed SAT, learning disabled dumb" They were the butts of jokes in high school because they were so academically challenged.

So, I'm thinking that maybe there are a lot of jobs on Wall Street where brains ain't exactly a heavy requirement. Now these guys do have the credential, the Georgetown or Duke diploma. And they are affable and they do have some cunning and survival skills. But I wouldn't send either one of them to the grocery store with a detailed shopping list unless they took their cellphone with them so that we could communicate on just which box of rice they ought to buy.
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