SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Paul Hornung regrets suggesting that Notre Dame needs to lower its academic standards to "get the black athlete.''
"I was wrong,'' the 1956 Heisman Trophy winner told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Wednesday." What I should have said is: For all athletes, it is really tough to get into Notre Dame.''
During a radio interview Tuesday night in Detroit, he told WXYT-AM that his alma mater has to "ease it up a little bit'' on its standards.
What an idiot.