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North Carolina’s Dominance Fails to Cover Cheating’s Stain
from the NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/...na-final-four-cheating-fake-classes.html?_r=0
..."Amid the blue-and-white pompoms, few are so rude as to mention that the University of North Carolina, the Microsoft of college basketball, remains enmeshed in a scandal of spectacular proportions. Put simply, for two decades until 2013, the university provided fake classes for many hundreds of student athletes, most of them basketball and football players.
Coach Williams’s longtime man Friday, Wayne Walden, a former academic counselor, played switchman, steering basketball players to these classes. A touch of plagiarism, a no-show, were O.K. if it gave the young man more time to work on his drop step. There was one goal: Keep those grade-point averages at the minimum needed to compete for the university.
The N.C.A.A. gumshoes have recently awakened from their slumber and, in December, filed a tough set of accusations against the university, the latest in an investigation bending and twisting — some might say stalling — during the past few years.
University officials take great umbrage at this. They claim to have investigated thoroughly. This is nonsense. I waded through their reports, and it was like watching a reluctant striptease"....
from the NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/...na-final-four-cheating-fake-classes.html?_r=0
..."Amid the blue-and-white pompoms, few are so rude as to mention that the University of North Carolina, the Microsoft of college basketball, remains enmeshed in a scandal of spectacular proportions. Put simply, for two decades until 2013, the university provided fake classes for many hundreds of student athletes, most of them basketball and football players.
Coach Williams’s longtime man Friday, Wayne Walden, a former academic counselor, played switchman, steering basketball players to these classes. A touch of plagiarism, a no-show, were O.K. if it gave the young man more time to work on his drop step. There was one goal: Keep those grade-point averages at the minimum needed to compete for the university.
The N.C.A.A. gumshoes have recently awakened from their slumber and, in December, filed a tough set of accusations against the university, the latest in an investigation bending and twisting — some might say stalling — during the past few years.
University officials take great umbrage at this. They claim to have investigated thoroughly. This is nonsense. I waded through their reports, and it was like watching a reluctant striptease"....
Every victory, every trophy, every banner should be removed. Academic fraud, playing no doubt ineligible players.
Eh, their administration has balls. After what we've been through, I respect that.
On the other hand, any school with an Emmert connection isn't getting any punishment. I'm rooting for the other team, every single time. And Gonzaga makes it easy.
On the other hand, any school with an Emmert connection isn't getting any punishment. I'm rooting for the other team, every single time. And Gonzaga makes it easy.
Number of times you'll hear nantz mention unc being the all-time leader in Final Four appearances? Too many given their academic fraud that goes unmentioned.
Not sure who was doing the UNC-Oregon game Saturday night, but I was shocked to hear them even bring up the academic scandal. Of course they just brushed on it for a few seconds before going back and drooling all over Meeks!
All fake classes are canceled for the rest of the week if the Heels win tonite!
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