<p>Thoughtful editorial. Thanks for posting it, scoutsmom.</p>
<p>scoutsmom,</p>
<p>So to have re-scheduled his interview would have been fair? What about the other interviewees at the same location?</p>
<p>You might also note that Myron Rolle, who won in 2008, did not get any accomodation. He had a night game and arrived at half time. Oh yea, he was drafted but cut later on.</p>
<p>Finally, could someone explain how one gives up a scholarship one has not even won? And where the odds of winning aren’t even that great?</p>
<p>I thought the editorial was interesting, particularly the Rhodes quote, but I was not trying to imply any in depth knowledge on my part. I’m a NY Jets fan, and that should tell you how little I know about football…</p>
<p>He was very unlucky. In contrast, a Harvard guy won both The Game and Rhodes Scholar in one day.</p>
<p>[Baltazar</a> A. Zavala | FM | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/12/10/zavala-up-harvard-year/]Baltazar”>The Harvard Crimson)</p>
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cottonmather, I think you fail to comprehend what the writer of the article is saying–he’s saying that Witt’s greatness is based on this decision, not on his football prowess.</p>
<p>Patrick Witt has set a lot of records at Yale, so I don’t think you can entirely dismiss the argument that Witt is up there when it comes to Yale QBs. Just go look at Yale’s record book. He may have lost 3 times to Harvard, but one player can only do so much when you have 10 other teammates on the field.</p>
<p>Whoops! Perhaps a crack or two in the marble bust!</p>
<p><a href=“At Yale, the Collapse of Patrick Witt’s Rhodes Candidacy - The New York Times”>At Yale, the Collapse of Patrick Witt’s Rhodes Candidacy - The New York Times;
<p>^^^As well as two arrests and a charge of sexual assault…so much for the noble decision to skip the Rhodes interview. The article indicates Witt may have already been denied support by both the Rhodes committee and Yale.</p>
<p>Well, we certainly don’t who at Yale knew what, and what, if anything, they did about it - including President Levin. The buck stops at his door eventually. </p>
<p>But surely we suspect “scouts mom” must be chagrined to learn that Witt’s “greatness” has been called into question, and “Hunt” may wish to reconsider his declaration that the young man is “classy.”</p>
<p>As long as you stay classy, cottonmather, I’m happy.</p>
<p>Did he omit the arrest records in his Yale application or did Yale accept him despite the arrest records?</p>
<p>He is/was an itinerant University of Nebraska transfer as a benchwarming quarterback. If any of you want to know what it takes to be the 1% of transfer students that Yale, takes here is your answer: be an athlete, and not even a great one, but good enough to potentially have an “impact.” Yale is not looking, at the transfer stages, for more 4.0s and Siemens finalists – they got all they needed in the Freshman round. But Yale, like all the Ivies, will always find a spot for “an impact players.”</p>
<p>[Yale</a> Daily News editor sat on Patrick Witt story for months | JIMROMENESKO.COM](<a href=“Jim Romenesko”>Jim Romenesko)</p>
<p>[<a href=“At Yale, the Collapse of Patrick Witt’s Rhodes Candidacy - The New York Times”>At Yale, the Collapse of Patrick Witt’s Rhodes Candidacy - The New York Times
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<p>In short: Yale’s quarterback Patrick Witt pulled out of the final round of interviews for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship and claimed it was because he didn’t want to miss his last game as a Yalie against rivals Harvard. What later erges is that Witt, who is also a member of the frat [url=DKE]<a href=“http://gothamist.com/2010/10/15/video_yale_frat_boys_chant_no_means.php[/url]”>Video: Yale Frat Boys Chant "No Means Yes, Yes Means Anal" - Gothamist](This is the article)</a> at Yale, was accused by an anonymous classmate to have sexually assaulted her. He was actually disqualified from Rhodes, but the Yale Daily News (who Witt is a writer for) covered up this story, even they knew of it long before the story broke. </p>
<p>This sums how Yale admins have been dealing with sexual assault at Yale; rarely acting on reported cases of rape or assault. Though this may be the case in many elite institutions, Yale has been taking the most heat for various instances of misogyny and, for lack of better words, administrative disinterest on an issue so serious in nature.</p>