But it will raise the bar for the liability threshold.

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And rather than just scholarship reductions for missing the APR threshold, the discussion at these meetings was to bar offending teams from postseason play.

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Sandy Baum, an economist at Skidmore College whose research laid the groundwork for the proposed rules, said the department's regulations set the bar very low but the judge had created an impossible threshold because "there is no one right measure, " she said.

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