Posted on 08/18/2012 12:33:54 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Well, that didn't take long. After the NCAA circumvented its own crime-and-punishment process and blew up Penn State last month, we all wondered how long it would take for a follow-up test case to measure the willingness of the "new NCAA" to flex its precedent-setting muscles again. --snip-- The more we learn, the more it seems UNC has made a mockery of its ballyhooed academic mission for a long time in order to gain competitive advantage in football and men's basketball. With the introduction of what apparently is former two-sport star Julius Peppers' transcript into the public forum, it seems reasonable to assume that Carolina has been skating athletes through the African and Afro-American in order to maintain eligibility for more than a decade.
(Excerpt) Read more at sports.yahoo.com ...
On the other hand, the NCAA put sanctions on Cal Tech (Pasadena CA) for its academic practice of permitting students to attend a class for two weeks, and then drop with no problems. Rationale: That process may have (but never did) result in a student playing basketball and not being a full time student.
Good to know the NCAA standards are so fairly applied.
I wonder if there will be calls to disband the Afro-American studies dept ?
Holding Black athletes to the same standards as White athletes is Racist!
Mark Emmert is the biggest phoney and disgrace to ever lead the NCAA, and that’s saying something.
Everyone—except, it seems, the NCAA—knows that the “Afro-American studies” courses at these college sports factories are shams. The University of Washington got caught in a similar AA Studies scam with its football players a decade ago.
Next thing you know we will expect them to get a ID card so they can vote
White racist devils
African American studies replaced basket-weaving.
At a minimum, these college athletes should be able to write not just their first name but also their last name as well in order to be eligible to play.
If you wish to study Afro-Americans, get in an armored car and drive through South Side Chicago on a Saturday night, Or Southeast Washington DC or Philadelphia or most any ghetto they dwell in.
You will certainly get an education.
Better yet go there and ask if you can ride with one of their ambulance crews.THAT will certainly give you an education.
Don't recall that one. Would appreciate a link to the info.
If true, how ironic that Emmert was the president of UW at the time.
Unc and Ohio st are so corrupt but only get slaps on the wrist. Osu pays one player 40,000 that was admitted to. They have possible a million dollar team.
The NCAA thanks to Mark Emmert has painted itself into a corner -- a precedent-setting corner.
It is pretty much an understatement to say it’s only a NC college scandal ... it is truly a NCAA scandal that includes all its members.
Wonder how many hours of Black Studies and related tripe our current President has on his phantom transcript? Inquiring minds want to know.....
Those playas are not ‘Student Athletes’, they’re current or future convicts or gubmint workers...isn’t it time to go back to real student athletes
The Seattle Times ran a series of articles on the football program under Rick Neuheisel. And yes, the class so many of the football players took was “Swahili”. Sound familiar? See http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004150796_rbwilliams281.html
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