I used to teach Into to Econ at a university that often makes the Sweet 16. My first semester there, two basketball players came to my office and asked for the final exam. I told them it wasn’t for two more weeks. They said: “No. We’re here for our copy so we can study it for the final exam.” I refused. Within 60 seconds, one the the full profs in the dept was in my office telling me I had to give the exam to them. I told I didn’t and I wouldn’t. I asked him why I should even consider it, and I got the usual drivel about them being poor underprivileged, blah, blah. blah. I pointed out that, when these two guys didn’t make it in the NBA, they would take their XX university degree and try to get a job and within 14 nanoseconds, the employer would discover they could barely construct a sentence. What does that do for the dozens of XX grads who earned a degree and try to get a job there? His response: crickets. I never had another student athlete in any of my classes.
She needed to give multiple-choice tests (in math? don't know how....). Oftentimes, she'd receive the tests back all off by one question, where they either copied, or memorized, the answers out of order. She said that the Powers That Be told her 'C' stood for 'Close Enough'.
Corruption in College Sports? Heh. Nothing new.
Thanks for sharing that story. I knew sportsball was corrupt.
When I got into my 300-level econ classes, college finally began to be a challenge to me. I never understood how the “student-athletes” could show up to class once per week, at best, and still pass.
I ended up rooming with a basketball player and he had an attractive “TA” assigned to him. She did his homework. What a scam...
Did you keep your job?
Heck, my wife got that line at a local high school. She just laughed and said “I will make you famous if you keep this up!”