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OT/Recruiting Ramifications

timujian

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Jan 31, 2006
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As a legal matter, does a university have a fiduciary responsibility to provide a safe environment for its students, faculty, and employees?

If they do, then they would have strict liability if one of their scholarship athletes physically harms someone on campus and that athlete had a criminal background as a recruit.

Schools could be playing with fire when they knowingly recruit "bad apples."
 
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