Link: UNC Announces Academic Fraud Investigation Findings
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I don't know how this can not be Lack of Institutional Control.
Emmert's going to be tap dancing like Gregory Hines to get out of slamming this bastion of effete hubris.
Emmert's going to be tap dancing like Gregory Hines to get out of slamming this bastion of effete hubris.
Not true. ACC schools are all about academic integrity. There was a no-attendance, no-exam class at UNC about this very topic.
Here are some tweets from folks about the announcement:
@joeovies: Oh, hey there basketball RT @kenmedlin: Carol Folt: Wainstein found the irregularities peaked 10 years ago
UNC academic football counseling staff did a powerpoint presentation on paper classes to football coaches when Crowder retired.
Power point slide to UNC FB coaches literally said things like: "They didn't go to class. They didn't take notes, have to stay awake."
21% of all student-athletes at UNC took a bogus class b/w 1999-2011. Just 2% of general students in same time frame.
UNC chancellor says the 'paper class' scandal is less about the academic qualifcationx of athletes than poor advising provided them.
UNC investigator: Roy Williams' staff became concerned with 'clustering' of players in classes, asked his staff to migrate plyrs from them.
In Fall 2009, after paper class organizer retired, UNC football GPA was 2.12 (lowest in 10 years). 48 players had GPA of less than 2.0.
NCAA says info in new #UNC academic fraud report will be reviewed by its enforcement staff but won't comment now on substance of the report.
10 of 15 players on UNC's national championship basketball team in 2005 were AFAM majors (the department with paper classes).
Key finding of report, per UNC: Academic counselors saw the paper classes "as key to helping some student-athletes remain eligible."
Roy Williams told investigators he was "uncomfortable" w/ AFAM clustering & asked asst. Joe Halladay to make sure players not steered there.
The scope is so far and beyond any previously reported academic fraud case I can't even fathom what an appropriate NCAA punishment would be.
@joeovies: Oh, hey there basketball RT @kenmedlin: Carol Folt: Wainstein found the irregularities peaked 10 years ago
UNC academic football counseling staff did a powerpoint presentation on paper classes to football coaches when Crowder retired.
Power point slide to UNC FB coaches literally said things like: "They didn't go to class. They didn't take notes, have to stay awake."
21% of all student-athletes at UNC took a bogus class b/w 1999-2011. Just 2% of general students in same time frame.
UNC chancellor says the 'paper class' scandal is less about the academic qualifcationx of athletes than poor advising provided them.
UNC investigator: Roy Williams' staff became concerned with 'clustering' of players in classes, asked his staff to migrate plyrs from them.
In Fall 2009, after paper class organizer retired, UNC football GPA was 2.12 (lowest in 10 years). 48 players had GPA of less than 2.0.
NCAA says info in new #UNC academic fraud report will be reviewed by its enforcement staff but won't comment now on substance of the report.
10 of 15 players on UNC's national championship basketball team in 2005 were AFAM majors (the department with paper classes).
Key finding of report, per UNC: Academic counselors saw the paper classes "as key to helping some student-athletes remain eligible."
Roy Williams told investigators he was "uncomfortable" w/ AFAM clustering & asked asst. Joe Halladay to make sure players not steered there.
The scope is so far and beyond any previously reported academic fraud case I can't even fathom what an appropriate NCAA punishment would be.
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And they still stink as a football program. They fail at risk/reward analysis. UNC should recruit more athletic dummies.
So condoning of obvious plagiarism was acceptable it seems. Wow, just WOW.Here's an e-mail sent discussing a women's basketball player.
This is cataclysmic in North Carolina...and could impact the ACC and entire college football universe. It is one thing to tutor and work with learning impaired students... It this was nothing short of fraud on several levels. Will businesses respect any UNC football or basketball player'sdegree?
Second story on tonight's CBS Evening News. The real damage will be to the alumni's psyche and Carolina's national reputation. They've always seen their school as Blue Heaven, the "Stanford of the East."
Yet, the floor beneath their delusions and the school's denials has been rotting out for years. A chancellor, an athletic director, a football coach, dozens of players, several academic department heads -- all gone. And it still feels as if they haven't touched bottom.
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Best quote I heard today was "If you're putting yourself out there as the "front porch of academic integrity" in athletics, you better make sure someone is sweeping the stoop pretty often."
Obviously that front porch hasn't been swept in a long, long time.....
Another great quote from Twitter: "If the NCAA throws the book at UNC, it will be the closest some of these athletes have been to one in 18 years."
No one should be surprised by athletes taking easy classes in order to stay eligible. That's a given. The surprising part of this case comes in the scope of it. It lasted 18 years. It consisted of just over half regular students. It involved folks in the ethics department, head folks in the department, and others.
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