November 28, 1941.

Mr. Frederick Wi. Ware,
Omaha. World-lieraid,
Omaha, Nebraska.

Dear frederick:

Bob Busby ran your comment on the discussion of sub-
sidized football that yan obtained from the Chicago sport writer.

, Frederick, I never have stated that all coaches are
wide re or bums. That was Brownie's interpretation that he put
upon my statement. Every speech that I have ever made I have said
that we have had wonderful gentlemen who have cosched footbell and >
major sports, and wonderful gentlemen who are now coaching. But we
do have the beagle hound variety, the fellow who beats the bushes and
sniffles around for any athletic material that he can recruit. This
type of ccach misrepresents to the bey the pseudo-value of his ath-
letics.

The boy is gullible and loves to play. And instead -
of the young athlete going to college to be inspired by his instructors
and his fellow students he loses sight of that main goal, and naturally
he thinks that if he can walk in the footsteps of this big time coach
then he is in select company. If the boy has difficulty with his
studies the coach many times selects or suggests oasier courses.

Sany boys finish their three years of intercollegiate
athletic competition without getting past the sophomore standing -
certainly not higher than jumior standing. You kmow, Fred, a boy can
take any course in the university and it counts toward his athletic
eligibility. But there are sequences that a fellow mist take if he
gracuates, and he must make at least a “C" average to graduate, Many
of our so-called dumb or poor athletes play straight through on "Dp"
grades. "C” grades only give grade points, and if he does not have
enough “C" grades then he cannot advance to the next higher ranking
class, as a junior, and so forth. Therefore, the big time athlete
picks out soft courses because, after all, he is a big shot - he
isn’t thinking much about graduating. Now I am talking about the
dumb big time athlete, and there are a lot of them, Fred. Their
mental quotient has been blunted by the negative value afforded by
intercollegiate athletics as the all-important thing, rather than the
positive value of mind training and career seeking professional work
that a boy is supposed to go to college for.