Theo Davis, a 6-foot-10 power forward from Toronto who is one of the top frontcourt recruits in Division I college basketball, went to Lutheran Christian Academy in Philadelphia last year to get what his summer coach called “a quick fix.”
But that easy route to qualification for a college basketball scholarship appears to be in jeopardy. Myles Brand, the president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, said yesterday that emergency legislation would be proposed in April to give his organization the power to do on-site visits at schools suspected of lacking sufficient academic rigor. Brand’s announcement came in response to an investigation by The New York Times into Lutheran Christian and other schools built around basketball teams.