University of Miami administrators are proposing tougher...

University of Miami administrators are proposing tougher scholastic requirements that athletic officials say will make it difficult to compete nationally.

“I don’t think winning should be the final measure of success at this university,” the school’s president, Edward Foote, said. “I hope it never is. No question we’ll lose some students who are fine athletes, but who should not have been here in the first place.”

Jimmy Johnson, coach of the third-ranked Hurricane football team, said: “If these standards had been in four or five years ago, I doubt seriously whether the University of Miami would have won the national championship.

“I can take a lot of abuse and a lot of criticism, but the one thing I can’t take is not having a chance to win. Where we’re headed, it’s going to severely hurt us.”