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1. It was not a headline.
2. The director of admissions made no mention of the 3, the author of the article did.
3 You obviously didn't read the article based on your comments.
4. Link to article stating Neal changed schools to improve his GPA. Also, how would changing schools for one semester change his GPA?
5. Why would Neal need to increase his GPA if ND's standards are no different than any other schools?
6 You claim " all of the prop 48" players. Do you know how many they admitted?

Either you think the director of admissions is lying or you have to believe ND has higher standards...which is it?

These articles appears to disagree with you regarding Duke. I am sure you have a link to back up your claim?
http://www.math.duke.edu/~hain/athletics/questions.html
http://dukechronicle.com/article/how-deal-student-athlete

Aye. It was not a headline(it was the headline of your post), but it is a statement in the article which is not factually correct. Neal needs to increase his GPA because currently he isn't getting past the clearinghouse. My mother's husband happens to be an assistant at Centennial which is in the same division as Chaparral(Neal's former school), the reason for his transfer is well known in the area and Kelly himself stated he believed the transfer was for academic reasons http://espn.go.com/college-sports/recruiting/story/_/id/7621978/notre-dame-fighting-irish-football-recruit-davonte-neal-transfers-high-school. The director of admissions made a statement that was factually incorrect as it was hardly any secret that a number of NDs biggest stars were prop 48 kids; either he is not telling the truth or is senile, you decide. You posted an article which has a number of factually incorrect statements, but we are supposed believe its overall premise?

Uhhh, nowhere in your link does it even suggest that Duke has standards above the clearinghouse, but it does say this:

"While the athletic director claims there is no student with a 700 or 710 SAT score in the program right now, it does not mean that the athletic department has not pursued student athletes with low scores in the past. In recent years, two of Duke's most publicized recruits were questionable when it came to academic requirements, not only for Duke, but for the NCAA..."

Some evidence you got here.

Do these players not represent the Universities? Last I looked these players aren't getting paid...

No one will ever beat our record

I guess Miami will have to play the roll of "The Catholics" this year

Can't believe these kind of things still go on. What is this world coming too? Hell if my dad was former NFL DL Phillip Daniels would have been much more than a little boozing going on. Next time Phillip, Chris Collinsworth, and David Robinson should rent a small island for the team to partake in these horrible transgressions.

ND accepted 2 prop 48 players in 1986 only...not "many". Tony Rice and John Foley...so much for "a number of ND's biggest stars". You obviously do not care for the facts. Kelly made no statement regarding Neal needing to improve his academics. That is simply false. Rivals reports Neal's GPA as a 3.2. Once again, tell me how transferring for one semester would increase that number. You have already proven you did not read the article. Instead of making more uninformed comments, try reading the article, then tell us all where you believe the director of admissions is lying.

As for Duke, it is clear they have a higher standard. Just like ND, they will not offer a certain percentage of recruits that they believe will not be able to handle the academic workload to be successful at their schools. It is a fact, the analysts all acknowledge it.

Link to Neal getting a 700 on his SAT?

Yes you should. It is obvious you have no idea what you are talking about.

No link to Neal's supposed 700 score?

No cut and paste of where the director of admissions was lying?

No link of more than 2 prop 48 players and in years other than 1986?

In the article you linked as evidence, the three said to have been turned down by Notre Dame admissions went elsewhere for other known reasons, so they were never in fact in a position to be turned down by ND admissions; does that not provide doubt that anything else in the article is relevant or even true? ND has had numerous players on the very borderline of the NCAA sliding scale for decades, including prop-48 kids, does that not directly contradict the statement made by Sarcino? The Duke AD stated in your very own link that a number of his star players were on the borderline of the clearinghouse standards, does that not completely contradict the point you were attempting to make? They offer the exact same kids everybody else does(not 40% or 50% ; virtually every kid that signs with USC or Ohio State et all. has an ND offer), every single year, and never have an issue getting them in. Can you name a single recruit that committed to ND and then got turned down by admissions and went somewhere else, ala Stanford? They don't ever lose a recruit to other schools due to academics. It's an excuse, one that you never heard when the Irish were actually winning.

What act? So sanctions are no big deal to you?

We never had to cheat to win so atleast there's that.