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Be that athletic skill. weve just seen an admissions scandal. so now you flip it, and there is that young person from, you know, a farming community or an urban area and their parents are working and trying to make life for the next level for them academically. but then their best shot might be through their physicality, and they finally get there in the new tax back out of them for their scholarships. it just seems rapacious to me. i dont know. >> melissa: budget, politics, the warning from chu...

>> theyre more bribeable. theyre making less money. >> i say this quickly. i think this is exposed a lot of the athletic departments at these universities because the standard for academia is clearly yet left because they were using the athletic system to get students who have lessp a higher g.p.a. into the program and then lying about their athletic skill, which proves as a different lower standard for athletes at these schools than there is for academics. >> theres also a shocking number of at...

Students into a string of prestigious universities. >> 50 people nationwide. two exam administrators. one exam proctor. one college administrator. nine coaches. 33 parents. >> reporter: the center of the scheme is prep organization the key, founded by william singer. he pleaded guilty to four charges, including money laue i laundering and obstruction of justice. >> wealthy parents paid singer about $25 million in total to guarantee their childrens admission to elite schools. >> reporter: the sch...

A string of prestige uious universities. two act exam administrators, one proctor, one college administrator, nine coaches and elite schools and 33 parents who paid enormous sums to guarantee admissions to certain schools. >> the scheme involved two kinds of fraud, parents paying an organization to help their children cheat and others paying to allegedly bribe college coaches to admit the students as athletes regardless of their athletic skill. the prep organization at the center of the scandal....

Up with you michael. ive got six, too. theres been a bit of a debate since he won this yesterday. is he an athlete? donathan mcnabb, former philadelphia quarterback came out over the weekend saying, yeah, yeah, great and all that. but are you an athlete? jimmie johnson had a lot of people come to his defense. i wanted to ask you, do you think race car drivers are athletes? >> a skill that is an athletic skill. >> thats not an answer. >> sprint to get donovan mcnabb, but i dont think mcnabb could...

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