'Professors aren't doing the job during the day, students aren't doing the job at night. The only ones doing the job, it seems, are the football players.

There's really no other way to look at it because the numbers don't lie. Football has taken over. Indeed, most of the sifting and winnowing that goes on at UW these days involves figuring out to which online betting service to subscribe during football season.

At various times over the last 50 years, UW has had a reputation as a brain school, a party school and a hotbed of radical thought. But a football factory? A jock school?

The transformation began 20 years ago when [Donna] Shalala arrived at UW, packed the athletic board with athletics-friendly professors and made winning a priority. But UW is winning so much these days that people are starting to look at it like it's Alabama or Oklahoma or Florida State. You know, one of those schools that exist only because its football players need transcripts to satisfy the NCAA.'