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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Football has a different reality. There really aren't a lot of big boys playing football today that have the stats to be decent students at a selective college. And schools like Stanford, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Georgia Tech, Duke and a couple of other top schools with major D1 football programs will swoop down to pick them up.

But Yale and Dartmouth and Columbia and MIT also need offensive lineman and linebackers. It's a pretty big hook. The pool of big boys playing football who also have some academic talent is so, so small. Because most parents of smart kids don't allow their boys to play football because of the brain damage risks. The football players scoring 1300+ on the SAT can pretty much write their ticket to the Ivy League.

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There is a shortage but not like you are implying. Thomas was easily good enough for the Ivy League but ended up at Middlebury because of insufficient HS competition. He was pre med and plays pro in Canada right now.[/quote]

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