UNC and NCAA Covering up Academic Fraud?

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

http://mobile.businessweek.com/articles ... ism#r=most

The recent criminal indictment of an African American studies scholar at the University of North Carolina sheds dismaying light on how big-time college sports corrupt academics.

UNC and the NCAA are trying to conceal that the fraud was specifically designed to pad the transcripts of varsity athletes. The News & Observer’s reporting shows a clear pattern of both the university and the National Collegiate Athletic Association attempting to deflect attention from the connection between Tar Heel athletics and the no-show Afro-Am courses.

[shafnutz05]

Just read the article...wow.

[skullman80]

I'd like to say this is suprising, but it's not. Probably happens alot of places. Just awful. It's all about $$$$ not about the kids education or anything like that.

[columbia]

I thought this was revealed several years ago.
Is the NCAA angle that's new?

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

I thought this was revealed several years ago.
Is the NCAA angle that's new?

Yes.

[columbia]

Gotcha.

The NCAA is definitely a reflection of the integrity of its membership.

[slappybrown]

The NCAA is a traveshamockery

[newarenanow]

I thought this was old news?

[slappybrown]

I thought this was revealed several years ago.
Is the NCAA angle that's new?

Yes.

[DontToewsMeBro]

This story has gotten surprisingly little media coverage.

[ExPatriatePen]

While this type of thing occurs throughout the entire NCAA, the fact the story broke at an ACC school, a conference which purports to maintain only the highest academic standards, is amusing.

[pressure=9Pa]

I had a friend who got a C in his calculus class freshman year at a Big Ten school depsite attending less than 1/3 of the classes. He was 6'5", 320 pounds, and wore football T-shirts and jerseys a lot. He did not actually play on the football team, but the prof assumed he did.

[dodint]

College Football is academic fraud. But as long as the money keeps rolling, who cares, right?

[Shyster]

Personally, I've always assumed that any class or department with the word "studies" in its name is an academic fraud.

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

In a related story, some college athletes have a reading level equal to or lower than a 5th-grader.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/07/us/ncaa-a ... ?hpt=hp_t1

[Dickie Dunn]

In a related story, some college athletes have a reading level equal to or lower than a 5th-grader.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/07/us/ncaa-a ... ?hpt=hp_t1

I remember this story http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/otl/news/story?id=4737281 from ESPN a few years ago. Antonio Cromartie (he of 12 kids with 8 women) was really the only named player in the piece. Functionally illiterate.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/12/13/chargers-cromartie-singled-out-in-espn-report-on-florida-state/

[relantel]

the NCAA didn't want to touch UNC with a 10 foot pole. Just another feather in their headdress of bumbling.

[pensfan1989]

We can't have kids selling the free stuff they get so they can pay their bills, but it's ok for student athletes to not be able to read.

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

UNC: "We failed students for years"

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/28/us/ncaa-a ... index.html

How in the hell did they not receive any sanctions?

[DontToewsMeBro]

UNC: "We failed students for years"

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/28/us/ncaa-a ... index.html

How in the hell did they not receive any sanctions?

Because nobody cares about it.