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NCAA - I've been following this for over a year

If it was really how it says it was (absence of professor, changing grades, i.e.) then the university surely had to have known. It appears the athlete's knew since such a large percentage signed up for the courses.

So does the university face any kind of trouble for this situation, or did they successfully pin it all on one dude?
 
LazyD said:
If it was really how it says it was (absence of professor, changing grades, i.e.) then the university surely had to have known. It appears the athlete's knew since such a large percentage signed up for the courses.

So does the university face any kind of trouble for this situation, or did they successfully pin it all on one dude?
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It is MUCH worse than what's in the article. Julius Peppers actually came clean and tweeted pics of his original grades then the 'changed' grades.
The UNC player's tutor resigned and wrote a scathing letter that he would not take part in such blatant academic fraud.
A head faculty member admitted to all of it at resignation.

The NCAA says it's not in their jurisdiction.. wuuuuuuu?????

They cite the reason being it wasn't isolated to player's only or some total BS. Btw, the ONLY non-athlete enrolled in the classes was an ex-player finishing up his 'degree.'

I am ONLY pissed because of the blatant selective enforcement.
This EXACT same thing happened at GA and the coach was placed under show-cause (death sentence) and the team had wins vacated... and it wasn't nearly as bad as what's going on at UNC.

Corey Maggette did the EXACT same thing (same type money, same timeframes, etc) as Marcus Camby. We all know how those turned out.

So a question....

How does Rose get deemed ineligible after his career in college is OVER.. under suspicion (based on a baseless rumor) that he cheated on his SAT while in HS and UNCOMMITTED to any college, but UNC is in the clear with the NCAA???? There is NO viable answer other than..... money. UNC brings in too many dollars.
 
Who cares if these athletes go to class or not? Don't they just take easiest and most useless of subjects like Anthropology anyway????


Let's not pretend they're there to study.
 
Hotttnickkk said:
Who cares if these athletes go to class or not? Don't they just take easiest and most useless of subjects like Anthropology anyway????


Let's not pretend they're there to study.
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What the hell man? Is anthropology really easy in NZ? I had like two really hard anthropology classes. I took then because I thought they would be easy though. My easy classes were like statistics and biology.
 
b_line said:
What the hell man? Is anthropology really easy in NZ? I had like two really hard anthropology classes. I took then because I thought they would be easy though. My easy classes were like statistics and biology.
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Ask PKM what subjects his players take. Pretty sure Anthropology is right up there at the top of the list.
 
Another new article... scathing. Business Week.

The corruption of academics at the University of North Carolina’s Chapel Hill campus could turn into the most revelatory of all of the undergraduate sports scandals in recent memory. Beginning three years ago with what sounded like garden-variety reports of under-the-table payments from agents and improper classroom help for athletes, the affair has spread and deepened to include evidence of hundreds of sham courses offered since the early 1990s. Untold numbers of grades have been changed without authorization and faculty signatures forged—all in the service of an elaborate campaign to keep elite basketball and football players academically eligible to play.
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The rot in Chapel Hill undermines UNC’s reputation as one of the nation’s finest public institutions of higher learning. Officials created classes that did not meet. That’s not the only reason more scrutiny is needed. There’s also the particularly pernicious way that the school’s African and Afro-American Studies Department has been used to inflate the GPAs of basketball and football players. The corruption of a scholarly discipline devoted to black history and culture underscores a racial subtext to the exploitation of college athletes that typically goes unidentified in polite discussion. (UNC’s former longtime Afro-Am chairman, Julius Nyang’oro, has been criminally indicted for fraud.)
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https://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-06/unc-athletic-scandal-charges-of-fraud-could-be-tip-of-wider-revelations#r=lr-sr
 
PKM said:
Another new article... scathing. Business Week.

Untold numbers of grades have been changed without authorization and faculty signatures forged—all in the service of an elaborate campaign to keep elite basketball and football players academically eligible to play.
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Wow, that's grounds for criminal prosecution. If someone forged my signature to change one of my student's grades without my permission I would raise all kinds of ****.
 
colton said:
Wow, that's grounds for criminal prosecution. If someone forged my signature to change one of my student's grades without my permission I would raise all kinds of ****.
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It's really bad. Some faculty have 'resigned' with early pensions and bonuses... connect the dots.
I've written on it so much that I am too tired to do it again, but the evidence is truly mountainous... and the NCAA says "it's not under our jurisdiction."
 
PKM said:
It's really bad. Some faculty have 'resigned' with early pensions and bonuses... connect the dots.
I've written on it so much that I am too tired to do it again, but the evidence is truly mountainous... and the NCAA says "it's not under our jurisdiction."
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At the end of the day, the NCAA's position on this is just more evidence of something we already knew: The NCAA is all about the money.
 
This story is FINALLY after many, many months blowing up. CNN has just ran with it in Raleigh.

And the money-hungry puppet (ESPN) has already ran a story to try and downplay it. There may just be something coming down on UNC... the NCAA will be FORCED to do something ... I just don't see how with all the unbelievable proof that has surfaced (including leading faculty and players themselves) that they can turn a blind eye.
 
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