HUGE Student-Athlete Academic Scandal at UNC

Another example of racism by elite whites.

Every time a brother tries to get ahead they slap him down.

Most of this was pretty widely known for a few years. Now the full extent of the Myth of Blue Heaven is coming to light.

Duke is laughing.

I read those articles. How did this go unnoticed for so long?

I am a former UNC athlete and I cannot defend this. I think it is despicable. I honestly believe it happens everywhere, though.

I am surprised that baseball is involved, honestly. I can say with authority that it was not happening with soccer. if it were happening, I would have spent a hell of a lot less time studying.

I have gotten to the point where I am just fed up with college sports. Look at the situation with Todd Gurley at Georgia. Front page news that he made some money off of selling signatures. Should he have done it? No. But rape a girl and you sit for the first half of a game.

In my opinion - and it won't happen - but we should do away with athletic slots. You can still get a scholarship if you can legitimately get into the school, but no more UNC and Stanford guys who can barely read a kid's book. The ideal model is the Ivy League.

Fvck the NCAA.

I'll tell you as I was around there at the time and knew the priorities and shifts going on around campus. Beginning in the early 90s, UNC decided it was tired of being a second tier NCAA sports school and lowered the academic prioritise while raising the sports profile. Like many other schools, massive sponsorship deals, massive donations and state funding for new facilities. They figured UNC's academic reputation would always be safe even with the massive infusion of money into sports. Obviously I think we all know, they are tied together as we see with repugnant institutions like Fl State and such. Ironically it was the early ACC football rivalry with Fl State (where they always came up short) that got the alumni and power brokers thinking it could be Fl State without the crappy academics. Well, we see the results. And they still suck at football.

It's in the NYT too.

Talks about how tutors showed coaches a powerpt that explained how they kept athletes eligible.

Classes athletes were taking either didn't meet, didn't have to take notes, stay awake, or meet with profs.

Next slide said that they no longer existed. All in caps.

Amazing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/23/sports/university-of-north-carolina-investigation-reveals-shadow-curriculum-to-help-athletes.html

thanks for weighing in UNC Athlete and take on mens soccer. Talking to people near the womens program and reading his books, I am sure that Anson Dorrance-for all his personal indiscretions that were exposed from that insane Debbie Keller lawsuit, was a stickler for academics with his athletes.

#2, much of this is old news. The Raleigh News and Observer has done a ton of work on this for the last few years.

Agree with everything this poster said.

I was a T&F and XC athlete (mid 2000s), and didn't know of any teammates taking these "paper classes." I did hear stories about football guys taking flimsy "independent study" classes, so I'm not shocked at the finding of these classes - only at the extent of it. Truly shameful.

la mancha wrote:

#2, much of this is old news. The Raleigh News and Observer has done a ton of work on this for the last few years.

Why hasn't this gotten out before, then.

We could go on and on about UNC, but the bigger issue I see is that this phony student-athlete charade could not possibly be isolated to the UNC campus. As much as I am glad to see UNC being humbled here, I really want to know what the hell goes on at every other top tier D1 school now. Is Fl State sending their fine student athletes like Mr. Winston to actual academic class settings with actual study responsibilities? List all the top names and lets see the classes these young men are enrolled in.

This sickens me. I hope that all sports involved in this are punished. Sickening. I'm so tired of revenue sports ruining athletics for others.

I ran in the late 90s and can say that track knew nothing of what was going on.

Eye Watch, go back and read the myriad of investigative articles since 2011. Do I really need to link to them?

The African Studies Prof. was already arrested and indicted. The only thing new is the official report that got published.

la mancha wrote:

Eye Watch, go back and read the myriad of investigative articles since 2011. Do I really need to link to them?

The African Studies Prof. was already arrested and indicted. The only thing new is the official report that got published.

Yes, you do.

la mancha wrote:

Eye Watch, go back and read the myriad of investigative articles since 2011. Do I really need to link to them?

The African Studies Prof. was already arrested and indicted. The only thing new is the official report that got published.

Rather, the only thing new is this third official report being published.

List of articles of this subject in News and Observer, beginning August 2011 with the piece on Marvin Austin and African Studies program. Widescale coverage in 2012.

Eye Watch, you gotta get out more.

You can find dirt on almost every single D1 school with a major football or basketball program.

Ohio State has rumors from years past, that I won't bring up that would make your head spin.

the true criminals are the blind AD's and coaches. No way they didn't know. No way.

Ohio, by all means then lets get the investigators digging as much dirt as possible on every one of these football/b-ball money factories. I am so sick of the hypocrites at the NCAA and the joke of the student athlete.

Agree with the UNC ex-soccer player- the Ivys do have it right. Also the Patriot League and some others in FCS. Where I live now- UC Davis.

I would prefer to watch Lehigh play Cornell in person on some gorgeous crisp fall day, in a contest between actual students than something like LSU/Alabama on tv in some massive cauldron with phony student athlete gladiators showing off their physical prowess.

la mancha wrote:

I would prefer to watch Lehigh play Cornell in person on some gorgeous crisp fall day, in a contest between actual students than something like LSU/Alabama on tv in some massive cauldron with phony student athlete gladiators showing off their physical prowess.

Well that's just you. Some of us actually like to watch great football players. And what does a gorgeous fall day have to do with any of this?