Texas AD Del Conte talks Education

This comes from On3. The question Del Conte got at the SEC meeting was how does horn balance athletics and student life. This was his reply:

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“You think about public institutions, arguably a top-five public institution in the country. When you look at the kids that come to the University of Texas, the decisions they’re making at the end of the decision is Cal, it’s UCLA, it’s Texas, it’s Michigan, sometimes (North) Carolina, but we’re really in that quadrant of who we’re with. To get into the school you have to be in the top six-percent of your high school. So the type of kid we get — we always tell our student-athletes when they go to school there you’re competing against the very best in the fields, but in the classroom, they’re the very best in the country you have to compete with academically. We’re always mindful of the balance of both. We have a saying at Texas, the winning tradition of the University of Texas should not be entrusted to the timid or the weak. That applies to the classroom and the playing fields because who we play matters. We played Arkansas two years ago, you were at that game, it was the wildest game. I’m walking through the tunnel and I look over at Commissioner Sankey and he goes, ‘how about that?’ I go, ‘that was the greatest thing ever.’ We lost the game, we knew, but Steve also said here’s what we have to do to get prepared for that game. That game was fantastic because it gave us a barometer of what we need to do offensively and defensively on the lines. Gotta get big dudes.”

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Can someone tell me what point he’s trying to make with this answer? Is he implying that admission standards for athletes at Austin are higher?

I liked how he managed to work in Arkansas at end lol