<p>cbw123: Coaches being “sleazy about their numbers” is not confined to Cornell.</p>
<p>In reading comments here (on the unrelated cheating scandal at Harvard):
[More</a> Than Half Of Students Charged In Harvard Cheating Case Forced To Withdraw > cheating, Harvard, Harvard Crimson, plagiarism, punishment | IvyGate](<a href=“http://www.ivygateblog.com/2013/02/more-than-half-of-students-charged-in-harvard-cheating-case-forced-to-withdraw/]More”>http://www.ivygateblog.com/2013/02/more-than-half-of-students-charged-in-harvard-cheating-case-forced-to-withdraw/)</p>
<p>this post came to my attention:
The real egregious cheating at Harvard is being committed by the men’s basketball team and its flagrant violation of Ivy League rules concerning the Academic Index. This past recruiting cycle, Harvard recruited and enrolled (in September 2012) a prep school player who had not even made his high school varsity team. Harvard matriculated a high school JV player just to add his sky-high SAT scores to the team average. That speaks to how low the AI scores of the Crimson’s other players are – you know, the ones who are asked to actually touch the ball. There aren’t enough technical fouls in the world to call against what Harvard is doing.</p>
<p>And this from another poster, referring to the same athlete:
He may well be the first high school JV player ever recruited by a college program which at the time was flirting with a national Top 25 ranking. His high school senior year, he made the varsity squad but rarely saw court time, averaging 1.7 points per game and scoring a total of 46 points all season. Nevertheless, he was admitted to Harvard and announced as part of the six-player recruiting class of 2012 in a standard press release dated August 1, 2012 under the headline, "Men’s Basketball Adds Six Newcomers to the Fold for 2012-13 Season. Shortly after arriving on campus in September, coach Amaker informed the young man that his services would no longer be welcome and he was asked to leave the team. He remains a freshman at Harvard. Interestingly, Amaker’s attention to detail extends to going back to the archives of the team’s press releases. Today, if you search back to August 1, 2012, you will find a boilerplate press release with the headline, “Men’s Basketball Adds Five Newcomers to the Fold for 2012-13 Season.” The young man has been officially erased from his brief history on the Harvard varsity basketball team.</p>
<p>A quick google search for Academic Index Ivy League yields much literature, most drawing the same conclusion: “some Ivies have been known to pad their teams Academic Indices by recruiting athletes with 1550 SAT scores and virtually no chance of ever seeing game action.”</p>
<p>While not the same as what the Cornell tennis coach apparently did, but equally distasteful and perhaps more so, since it appears to be S.O.P.</p>