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For Mark Emmert, president of the University of Washington, a football team’s success is measured by more than what happens on the field. “You do not have to give up your values to be competitive in sports,” he said Tuesday. “It’s not a success if you win a championship and have a large portion of the team arrested for poor behavior. That’s not a success.” Emmert cited the UW’s last Rose Bowl team as an example of victory at too high a cost. The Seattle Times this week has run a series, “Victory and Ruins,” describing the criminal misconduct of several players on that team, and how the university and community institutions failed to hold them accountable. “The cases that have been portrayed in this series of stories are shocking and deeply disturbing,” Emmert said. “They are exactly the kinds of things you don’t want the athletic program or any other type of program to represent.” Emmert said criminal conduct appears to have been widespread on the 2000 team. “I’m also sure that there were many young men on that team who were terrific, admirable people.” The lack of accountability back then explains “some of the enormous challenges we inherited,” he said. “When you look at the team today, it is in no way comparable to the statistics and facts of 2000.”Story.
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