North Carolina cheated and prospered, now it's time for reckoning

cbssports.com ^ | 8/14/12 | Gregg Doyel

[kcvl]

I have been called worse...

I really don’t care any longer what I’m called. If that is the best they can do so be it. They have no ideas, no fixes, nothing but name calling. Fine by me...

[servo1969]

How many athletes were given free grades from the Department of African and Afro-American Studies? We don't know.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say...

Pretty much all of them?

[FroggyTheGremlim]

"In two of the classes, the sole enrollee was a basketball player."

He passed. Was graded on the curve.

[nascarnation]

I finished Tebow’s book this summer, and while I admire him as a fine Christian gentleman, he makes it pretty clear that he majored in football and academics were something you needed to do to stay in the program.

[txrefugee]

Good, another Affirmative Action scam gone public, and especially satisfying in such a Leftist haven as NC.

Now let’s have some real investigative reporting and see how that klutz, Obama, wound up at Harvard, and as head of the Harvard Law Review when he never wrote anything. Then we’ll really see the seedy side of Affirmative Action and its awful consequences for our country....far worse than a crooked sports program in NC.

[libertarian27]

From the article

UNC records showed "basketball players had also enrolled. In two of the classes, the sole enrollee was a basketball player."

Wonder how much the Professor(s) got paid to 'Teach' those classes?
(I bet NC taxpayers would want to know)

[The Duke]

NOTE TO SELF: Don’t consider UNC graduates for future employment opportunities. They obviously don’t take their program seriously.

[VRWCarea51]

So if NC gets sanctioned and their wins erased from the books looks like the year they beat Michigan in the Championship is a real mess.

FWIW Michigan had their records erased because of the Fab Five mess several years ago.

[ex91B10]

"As a UNC grad...is embarressing."

The Kenyan must go.

[Saltmeat]

Can anyone be surprised that this is happening at our colleges and universities—probably at all of them in some form or another? Can anyone place any confidence in the academic standards that are required and supposedly monitored by the NCAA? The whole thing is a facade. How about this for an example: a kid is unable to achieve the minimum GPA in high school and/or can’t make the minimum score required on the ACT/SAT. So he/she then go to a community college or a junior college for two years, miraculously become scholars, and are then admitted to a university—still without the minimum ACT/SAT score having been achieved. Does anyone believe that they suddenly began doing university type work? Dream on!

Now that they have been admitted into the university though very ill equipped to cope academically, the challenge to the university and the coaches is to keep them eligible no matter what. They must because there are extremely big bucks riding on the outcome of that challenge.

IMHO there are two simple ways to put a damper (not a complete fix though) on the insanity now dubbed college athletics. Every state legislature in this union should pass legislation that would prohibit any employee of the athletic departments in their respective states from earning more money than the president of said university or college. There is not a single college coach earning seven figures that would not do the job for six figures. Why? Because most all of them could not earn that much money in any other endeavor that they undertook.

Secondly, eliminate all recruiting—period. If a kid wants to play athletics, then he/she shops around for a university that has a need for their talent. With the technology available today, an athlete can expose untold numbers of coaches to their athletic ability with the click of a computer mouse. No need for the coaches to be running all over the country kissing 18 year old asses and making promises to parents that they know will never happen.

Another mystery is how the moms of kids coming out of broken homes and economically disadvantaged neighborhoods can seem to travel from one side of the country to the other to watch junior play his game. Also, junior many times seems to be able to afford an automobile that costs more than moms house. Go figure. And the NCAA seems to be immune to the obvious.

[Arm_Bears]

As we say over in Raleigh: “NC State—Education, UNC—Vacation”

[kevkrom]

He passed. Was graded on the curve.

I laughed out loud when I saw this one. Nice job!

[MikeD]

Not just a man named Carl Carey, but Dr. Carl Carey, former AFAM Professor at UNC and former Academic Advisor to one Julius Peppers. He left his professorship to become an agent, yet was later invited back to teach seminars while he was still an agent! I have no idea how the NCAA is handling that one.

MD, UNC Physics, '97