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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Coach Dubois

["I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth."]




"[The NCAA should] leave graduation rates up to the presidents of each institution. Certainly, any president and responsible coach will see that their institution does the right thing for athletes, and seeing that those athletes graduate would be a prime objective."

Dick Bestwick, Athens Banner-Herald