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Harvard, not surprisingly, claimed otherwise. Harvard’s documents argued that Minuto and his father misrepresented his football credentials to the Harvard coaching staff, that Murphy had made it clear that he was “not the Dean of Admissions” and that Minuto’s academic credentials made him anything but a sure thing...
...promised him a shot at a starting wide receiver’s job since one of the starters would have to take a year off—an interesting note, since one such Crimson player did end up missing the team’s perfect 2001 season. Nevertheless, Minuto dropped the suit abruptly in under a month...
...have been the heap of counterevidence—including sworn affidavits by Tulane and Harvard coaches suggesting Minuto had exaggerated his football credentials to Murphy and Tall. Or it may have been the sheer implausibility of winning admission on the strength of alleged promises by an Ivy League football coach—especially since Harvard admissions offers described Minuto as “very weak academically.” (Minuto’s transfer application, public record since being introduced in the suit, reveals a 3.33 grade point average at Tulane his first semester, a 1260 SAT score...
Given the reality that only 7 percent of Harvard’s transfer applicants were admitted at the time, these weren’t good signs. Minuto dropped the suit, and Harvard representatives declared the result a vindication of both the admissions and athletic departments...
...promised anything at all, that Marco is in fact the type who would have tried to pull the wool over Santa’s eyes. And we know that naughty little boys who try that stuff get nothing but coal in the end. Yet at some point, Minuto must have thought his suit could succeed. Who knows...