“They are simply passing through your institutions on their way to something else,” he told the audience of university presidents, athletic officials and N.C.A.A. officials. “Some of them make it, some of them wash out very, very quickly.”

In remarks after his speech, Duncan spoke in even franker terms, calling the N.B.A. rule a “farce” and “intellectually dishonest.”

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