It provides a more accurate picture of the success student-athletes have in the classroom.
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Women come from a culture where society has told them all these years that at whatever level you have to be better, you have to work harder, you have to outperform everyone else in order to break through all the gender barriers. In a basketball male culture, it's almost not cool to study. I think it's taken a lot of programs the NCAA has implemented to let those players and their coaches know, 'We've got to perform or we're going to lose scholarship.Richard Lapchick
His defense in this case, so quickly, seemed like an about-face, from taking a stand to a ridiculous statement a fan might make to another fan in a bar. It certainly didn't seem like he thought that one through.
Richard Lapchick
Whether or not anything happened, just staging an event like that is a problem. They are representatives of their university and schools have an understood code of conduct, and these guys obviously thought they were going to get away with it and thought it wasn't a big deal. That is unacceptable.
Richard Lapchick
There's been a general improvement in the leagues over a period of time. I think the glaring gaps are at the college level at what are considered to be the top positions.
Richard Lapchick
They are making their own career decisions to choose basketball and football over baseball.
Richard Lapchick
I am rarely surprised on issues of race and gender that the movement is so slow to get more people of color and women in those top positions.
Richard Lapchick
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