Minuto returned to Tulane and told his coach there that he would not need the scholarship the coaches had offered him. The Tulane team made it clear that he was “unwelcome” to continue practicing with them, and he dropped from the team.

Now, Harvard’s alleged withdrawn offer has left Minuto without a school, a scholarship or a football team.

“Right now, we’re focused on immediate relief,” Hardcastle said earlier this week. He declined to say whether the family would sue for financial damages in the future.

Harvard’s Response

Harvard paints a very different portrait of Minuto and his transfer application—that of a mediocre student and athlete who misrepresented himself to both the coach and the admissions office.

“This case...is not about an extraordinary student or an extraordinary athlete: Plantiff Marcho Minuto was neither,” yesterday’s Harvard brief reads.

Harvard’s response carefully attacks the points contained in Minuto’s lawsuit and offers dozens of pages of evidence and sworn affidavits by administrators, including Murphy and Dean of Admission Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73 denying the claims Minuto makes in his case.