The academic talk is just puffery. Everyone knows academic pursuits are secondary at BYU. He's saying they come to BYU to reinforce their Mormon beliefs, to get indoctrinated. Any student or professor who says anything at BYU that may undermine that mission gets booted out. I think at BYU DI athletics is probably even a higher priority than academics.
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