I hope UNC fans recorded that game

[BUD]

"The elephant in the room — the academic fraud scandal — may have something to say about that. And, without prompting, the Tar Heels and coach Roy Williams brought up what a trying season this was on a few occasions following their year-ending, 79-72 loss to No. 1 Wisconsin in an NCAA Tournament West Region semifinal Thursday night. That seemed like a veiled reference to the ongoing NCAA investigation that could derail this team’s high hopes.

A wide-ranging scandal in the school’s Department of African and Afro-American Studies including grade changes, forged faculty signatures on grade rolls and limited or no class time has hung over the school like a dark cloud after college sports’ governing body reopened its investigation last summer, when additional people agreed to cooperate. In January, former North Carolina athletes Devon Ramsay and Rashanda McCants — admittedly part of the scandal — filed a lawsuit against North Carolina and the NCAA, alleging they never received an education they were promised. "

Kentucky is next in line. The time is coming.. They will get busted eventually

 

[HammerDown]

becuz it's gonna be a LONG fuckin time before you see UNC playing in March. The NCAA hammer is gonna drop soon and when it does there will be nothing but dust left on Chapel Hill. Fuck'm

They are richly deserving. North Carolina is what's wrong with college sports programs. F em.

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

They have been cheating so long at Chump Hill, they don't even realize what cheating really is anymore.

I have a friend up here in NY, an older guy, went to UNC back in the late 60's. He said even way back then, they had sham classes and sham programs for the athletes, and that literally everyone on campus knew all about it. My wife's niece and her boyfriend both graduated from Chapel Hill about 6 years ago and they said the same thing, they all knew what was going on, but most of them don't care because they like the winning and they have their own problems to deal with.

It may not have been so coordinated like it became in 93, but this has been a part of the culture of the university for a looooong time. I doubt they're the only one who has done something similar, either. Colleges and universities like money more than "educating young people."

 

[ralphiewvu]

I have a friend up here in NY, an older guy, went to UNC back in the late 60's. He said even way back then, they had sham classes and sham programs for the athletes, and that literally everyone on campus knew all about it. My wife's niece and her boyfriend both graduated from Chapel Hill about 6 years ago and they said the same thing, they all knew what was going on, but most of them don't care because they like the winning and they have their own problems to deal with.

It may not have been so coordinated like it became in 93, but this has been a part of the culture of the university for a looooong time. I doubt they're the only one who has done something similar, either. Colleges and universities like money more than "educating young people."

Wait, so you're telling me they aren't "student athletes" ??? I have been duped.

 

[7Samurai13]

Wait, so you're telling me they aren't "student athletes" ??? I have been duped.

I feel so......



































Deceived

 

[night]

It's pretty clear it wasn't just "a few individuals" who acted on their own. It was a systemic problem that lasted nearly two decades. The level of naivete it takes to believe a handful of individuals acted on their own accord to make that happen is mind-blowing to me.

And I really can't fathom how you think compromising an entire department for nearly two decades, that effected hundreds of athletes, is better than changing one of Melo's grades.

Are you familiar with that river in Egypt?

Didn't they completely run the original whisteblower out of town by firing her?

 

[TrollyMcTroller]

Didn't they completely run the original whisteblower out of town by firing her?

Yeah, but they did just settle out of court with her for $335,000. So there's that.

 

[Loneranger]

Didn't they completely run the original whisteblower out of town by firing her?

Indeed they did so let's take a brief look at the highlites of what Good 'Ole Boy Roy is gonna have to answer to. If ANYONE on this planet believe Roy Williams isn't up to his balls in this they are drunk on stupidity.

"Interesting Final Four pregame show, Saturday, on C-Span 2: The authors of “Cheated,” about the two decades of academic fraud on behalf of University of North Carolina athletic teams. Among the revelations from Mary Willingham, former UNC “learning specialist,” and UNC professor Jay Smith:

UNC’s African-Americans studies department created nonexistent courses in which football and basketball players received an average grade of A, thus keeping their grade-point average above the C- sports eligibility line.

Some UNC recruits read at a third-grade elementary school level.

Rashad McCants, who helped UNC win the 2005 NCAA Tournament and later played in the NBA, actually made the academic dean’s list, “after a semester in which he had done no academic work.”

UNC’s fraud was regularly reliant on the cooperation of Jeanette Boxill, a professor of ethics.

Faculty whistle-blowers were punished by UNC.

And head coach Roy Williams says he had no idea."