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That is what Randy Edsall has stated in this article:
During one weekly media session, Edsall (off the podium) talked about how he spent UConn's first bye week of that season talking to admissions. His message: More stringent admittance requirements were imperiling the program.
Edsall said, essentially, the university was beginning to require its prospective athletes to have higher grade-point averages and higher standardized test scores "than a few years ago," on top of a more rigorous "second review" process for athletes who didn't meet the increased standards.
Later, Edsall showed me the "Admissions Athletic Review Procedures for Fall 2011," dated Sept. 23 of that year, detailing the requirements. Edsall said even players who earned their degrees in previous seasons probably wouldn't be admitted under this new plan. He said that making a kid wait on UConn was recruiting suicide because they'd just go somewhere else. Moreover, he wasn't sure other schools in the league were as discerning.
Edsall was most irritated, though, at having the conversation with admissions without Hathaway. He believes Hathaway should have been there to support him and perhaps keep discussions heading toward compromise. He believed he'd earned that much, given how the football program was lauded frequently — and nationally — for academic achievement.
During one weekly media session, Edsall (off the podium) talked about how he spent UConn's first bye week of that season talking to admissions. His message: More stringent admittance requirements were imperiling the program.
Edsall said, essentially, the university was beginning to require its prospective athletes to have higher grade-point averages and higher standardized test scores "than a few years ago," on top of a more rigorous "second review" process for athletes who didn't meet the increased standards.
Later, Edsall showed me the "Admissions Athletic Review Procedures for Fall 2011," dated Sept. 23 of that year, detailing the requirements. Edsall said even players who earned their degrees in previous seasons probably wouldn't be admitted under this new plan. He said that making a kid wait on UConn was recruiting suicide because they'd just go somewhere else. Moreover, he wasn't sure other schools in the league were as discerning.
Edsall was most irritated, though, at having the conversation with admissions without Hathaway. He believes Hathaway should have been there to support him and perhaps keep discussions heading toward compromise. He believed he'd earned that much, given how the football program was lauded frequently — and nationally — for academic achievement.
