UNC report finds 18 years of academic fraud to keep athletes playing

CNN ^ | October 25, 2014 | Sara Ganim and Devon M. Sayers

[laweeks]

This crap all starts in Junior High when Mr. NoNeck excels in some sport. And it finishes with a full scholarship of some kind when he gets to college.

My daughter, a straight A student, 5th in her class of over 800 students got a $1000 scholarship from some small woman’s group. That’s all she got. Now, when you pass the school, the sign out front brags about how over $10,000,000 of scholarships were given out that year. Where the hell did they go? Certainly not to my daughter.

They were given to all the Mr. NoNecks so they could be spoon fed in some big time, over priced college.

There should be no such thing ever as an athletic scholarship. By its very name, it defeats the purpose of a scholarship, which should be based on brain matter rather than steroid matter.

[wintertime]

Sports? It's a price-fixed monopoly racket. In any other industry those in this type of collusion would be in prison.

The NCAA, the government high schools, teachers unions, and universities all benefit. The student athlete doesn't. And....As you so clearly outlined neither do those who value scholarship since the value of their diplomas is degraded by the (”wink-wink”) scholastic fraud.

The entire mess should be **completely** privatized and **completely** divorced from anything that even suggests education. And....Athletes regardless of their age should be **paid** real money ( or not) for what ever the market deems their talents deserve.

If universities or high schools own team, fine but treat it like a business that is completely divorced from the education mission of the university. Government middle schools and high schools are essentially running tax-supported, price-fixed, monopoly minor teams for the big leagues. This should end. Immediately!

[wintertime]

This is a true story:

I was in our rural local community college library helping my daughter ( age 11) with her Saxon Math lesson. Her older brother and sister ( ages 12 and 13) were taking college math courses at the time and we were using the time efficiently as we waited for their class to end.

A young black man asked if I was a tutor and could I help him with a few math problems. The problems were simple 2 digit divisions. This young man was a basketball player. His academic performance was soooooo lacking that he couldn't qualify for a 4 year school. His goal was to improve his academics enough at this community college so that he could apply for a team at a 4 year school.

Amazingly, this young man was a high school graduate of an inner city high school. The entire system is corrupt.

[SunkenCiv]

Why on Earth didn’t they just hire ringers to take the classes and exams, like a normal NCAA school?