When now-former Wisconsin Badgers football coach Gary Andersen unexpectedly caught the last train for the West Coast, one of the reasons suggested by pundits was that the UW has tougher academic standards for its players than a lot of other schools. This wasn’t denied by Andersen, who was reportedly unhappy that he couldn’t recruit a promising lineman from Sun Prairie because the kid didn’t have the grades for admission at the university.
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