Brent Fullwood? Wasn’t there an old joke that the eagle died because Fullwood was supposed to feed it on the way to class? I don’t think he went to class the whole last fall semester he was there.Possibly because the program's APR (Academic Progress Rate) can be improved (earn bonus points) by having a student athlete return and complete their degree? Not saying this is the case, but it is a possibility.
What doesn't pass the smell test is taking and passing an online course final (with a perfect score no less) a few weeks into the course.
And let's take a stroll down memory lane to 2012 when Auburn was looking to eliminate Public Administration because it didn't fit the school's "academic mission". And low and behold over half of the public administration majors (111 majors) were athletes and 40 of those were football players. So important was "Public Administration" to the athletic department that they offered to fund it. Nothing fishy about that...
Then step back to 2006 and the Sociology no show classes in which papers were being written in lieu of class attendance and had a disproportionate number of athletes in the class. And the course was a required course for graduation in sociology and the course was being directed by a Professor in Criminology. Nothing fishy about that...
And who can forget the James Brooks story of a guy that left there after four years functionally illiterate. My brother was on faculty at Auburn at the time. When the story broke during his child support court case, my brother said that Brooks' issue was well known among faculty.
If there is hanky panky going on in academics, it wouldn't be the first time.
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