[Leftcoast]

Poor Chris Munk - 30 years later and the spelling of his last name is STILL known by many a Stanford Basketball fan.

Let's give Dean Jean the final say on what happened to Chris and Tom Davis back then.  (Taken from a discussion on the challenges of Varsity athletic admission that was part of a 1995 retrospective on her career at Stanford.)

At no time was this more apparent than the highly publicized case of Chris Munk, a young basketball player from Riordan High School in San Francisco who applied to Stanford in 1985.

Tom Davis, then the men's basketball coach, considered Munk "a potentially singular force in varsity basketball, someone who could propel men's basketball at Stanford to the forefront of NCAA competition, a height untouched since 1942, when the team won its only national championship."

"I think it is fair to say that I spent more time on this one file than on almost any other in seven years as dean," Fetter writes. "I read and reread the complete application; discussed it with my colleagues in Undergraduate Admissions, slept on it, discussed it with a specially convened group of faculty who were well-informed on athletics. . . . But consultation and reflection have their limits, and the final decision clearly rested with me. The time had come, and it was not a pleasant moment."

Fetter decided against approving the admission; Munk subsequently was awarded a basketball scholarship at the University of Southern California, and Tom Davis left Stanford a few weeks later, to be basketball coach at the University of Iowa.

http://news.stanford.edu/pr/95/950524Arc5216.html

[Leftcoast]

Poor Chris Munk - 30 years later and the spelling of his last name is STILL known by many a Stanford Basketball fan.

Let's give Dean Jean the final say on what happened to Chris and Tom Davis back then.  (Taken from a discussion on the challenges of Varsity athletic admission that was part of a 1995 retrospective on her career at Stanford.)

At no time was this more apparent than the highly publicized case of Chris Munk, a young basketball player from Riordan High School in San Francisco who applied to Stanford in 1985.

Tom Davis, then the men's basketball coach, considered Munk "a potentially singular force in varsity basketball, someone who could propel men's basketball at Stanford to the forefront of NCAA competition, a height untouched since 1942, when the team won its only national championship."

"I think it is fair to say that I spent more time on this one file than on almost any other in seven years as dean," Fetter writes. "I read and reread the complete application; discussed it with my colleagues in Undergraduate Admissions, slept on it, discussed it with a specially convened group of faculty who were well-informed on athletics. . . . But consultation and reflection have their limits, and the final decision clearly rested with me. The time had come, and it was not a pleasant moment."

Fetter decided against approving the admission; Munk subsequently was awarded a basketball scholarship at the University of Southern California, and Tom Davis left Stanford a few weeks later, to be basketball coach at the University of Iowa.

http://news.stanford.edu/pr/95/950524Arc5216.html