> As any big-time college coach knows, job security is measured by won-lost records. That produce-or-perish pressure accounts at least in part for the hanky-panky that caused Oklahoma two weeks ago to forfeit nine of last season's football games (TIME, April 30). Last week Steve Owens, a Heisman Trophy winner at O.U. who is now a Detroit Lions running back, suggested that abuses in player recruitment are more common than is generally suspected. Owens revealed that while he was a high school senior in Miami, Okla., one college offered to deliver a $5,000 cash bonus to him at the local airport...
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