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Originally posted by DeltAlum
What is more worrisome to me is the NCAA guy I can't remember who basically infers that using sex as a recruitment tool is probably rampant in the big programs. (Two women claim they were raped at a CU recruitment party -- the players and recruits claim sex was consentual)
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Actually, this is the part of this that surprises me about the whole deal -- that people are so surprised that sex is used as a recruiting tool for basketball and football (and probably some other sports as well) across the big D1 programs. It seems pretty clear to me that the majority of the public has been ignoring some very obvious signs that it's rampant.
We've discussed "hostessing" organizations at schools on GC before, and from what I know, the hostessing organizations that involve sex (either consentual or not-so-consentual) outnumber those that don't. Many of the schools that don't have official hostessing organizations use sex as a recruiting tool just as often as those that do.
I think the thing that surprised me is not how prevalent sex is, but how prevalent rape appears to be, at least in the Colorado case. The idea that sex is used as a recruitment tool is hardly surprising to me, but I assumed that in most cases it was consentual. After hearing what's been going on in Colorado, I wouldn't be shocked at all to hear more rape allegations in cases like this at schools around the country.