The SEC makes no such claims. Other schools embrace their inner football factory.
The buying out of contracts to get out of challenging nonconference games (UCLA and Arkansas) was particularly cowardly, but now they point to NEXT YEAR’s involuntary conference schedule (after infusion of better teams) as a defense for their actions.
And it is no new….UM actually had a fake major set up for its athletes for years (kinesiology) which Harbaugh himself called out while at Stanford….soUM responded by creating a different major to accomplish the same thing without the bad rep (General studies).
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