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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BOOM! Georgetown coach took almost $900k! One kid never played tennis at all.

https://www.justice.gov/file/1142876/download[/quote]

Between 2012 and 2018, SINGER paid a Georgetown tennis coach bribes, falsely
labeled as "consulting" fees, totaling more than $2.7 million. SINGER typically made the
payments from one of the KWF charitable accounts and sent them to the coach via U.S. Mail,
including in several instances to the coach's residence in Falmouth, Massachusetts. ^
53. In exchange for the bribes, the Georgetown coach designated approximately 12
applicants as recruits for the Georgetown tennis team, [b]including some who did not play tennis[/b]
[b]competitively[/b], thereby facilitating their admission to the imiversity.[/quote]

I'm not from around here, so I wonder if someone can, please, enlighten me. Doesn't the coach report to the athletic director, and, most importantly, don't they need to produce results in their sport? If you admit kids who don't even play your game, who's going to compete on behalf of your school?
I can -- sorta -- see how in a team sport you can always claim so and so was injured and was benched/replaced. But for an individual sport, like tennis, in a preppy school like Georgetown? Plus, when you apply as an athlete, don't you have to submit proof of your athletic accomplishments (official tournament results, ratings, etc)?
Baffling. Utterly baffling.[/quote]

My son is an athletic recruit at an academically elite university.  I'm not sure that the admissions office really looks at the athletic accomplishments of those kids on the coach's requested list.  I don't think (prior to this case anyway) they'd second guess a coach's determination re who will help the team.  In our experience the coach tells potential recruits what athletic milestones they need to hit to secure the coach's interest, and what academic thresholds they need to reach in order for the coach to feel reasonably certain he can get them through admissions.

I agree though that it is hard to imagine how someone like a tennis coach--as opposed to a sport like lacrosse or football that have tons of kids per team--could hope to have a successful program if any kids on his list weren't legit athletes.  Unless maybe he had carte blanche to get in as many kids as he wanted?[/quote]
Maybe that’s why he’s at URI now instead of Georgetown?[/quote]

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