HUGE Student-Athlete Academic Scandal at UNC

The SAC should revoke its accreditation.

At minimum, I hope it hurts its national rankings (USNews, Princeton Review, etc)

Still a coward. Stand up and do what's right. You can always get another job. Have some integrity.

Liberian Flu wrote:

Sounds like a man who has more to lose than just his integrity. Most people would do, or are doing the same thing right now. No one was hurt so get off your cross.

Not easy wrote:

It takes a man to stand up for what is right. You sir, are a coward.

You need to read Brock Baker's post. You and UNC alum do not honor UNC at all. I could see you as a kid getting caught cheating....Hey, so what its not like I raped someone or something.Or, all the kids cheat, big deal.Totally fake courses over 18 years is a huge fraud. These are not just cake easy courses, these courses are simply a total lie. Students taking them have fake GPAs. This is not a small problem. Your lack of appreciation of that makes the UNC look worse. Brock brings honor to your school. You should thank him.

Rice Cake wrote:

You must be a Ravens fan!! Or Penn State fan. Wait are you Jerry Sandusky's kid?? Penn State screwed up. Intro to Golf is fake class. If thats the case then there are millions of students and athletes taking fake courses. Admit it this is small fish compared to Penn State scandal. Kids were hurt and I am sorry if it were your kids but the media and NCAA has nothing else better to do and use the money that we provide at games for this type of sh%^!! Come on open your eyes Brah!!

My apologies Conundrum. I let my heart get the best of me. As a true UNC basketball fan you hate to see the program tainted by this, much like Penn St and Ohio St. I honestly could care less what happens to the other sports programs but basketball in my opinion only involved a couple student athletes and even the rest of the 2005 Nat Champ team were not on the same page as McCants and denied what he had said. I mean look the kid got interviews and TV time like no other, who would not want that. I retract what I said and apologize for those punches at you, I was wrong and admit my mistake for that post. Yes Brock Bakers post was genuine and sad but true to hear. Butttt in my opinion and mine only, the Penn St scandal far far far exceeds anything with this and look at the fans there, they are still fans. 100,000 still show up to football games.

Sincerest apologies

Accepted and no problem... another upstanding UNC grad.

I see this as much more than a sports issue. The school gave credit for noncourses. I don't blame the players or even the advisors.

Wrong. NINE members of the 2005 UNC "championship" basketball team were AFAM majors. Roy Williams had more players in AFAM classes than any other previous basketball coach. His players took 167 AFAM classes in a relatively short period of time.

Roy Williams' excuse is that didn't think it was good for his players to be clustered in one major. (He denies knowing AFAM was a sham, just thought players should not be clustered). Yet, the 2009 had NINE Communications majors. So, evidently, he lied when he said players should not be clustered in one major. Read the Weldon emails - the same man Roy brought with him from Kansas and claimed was the most important person on his staff. Weldon was definitely in on the scheme.

If you read the supplemental, UNC became very concerned about the Auburn academic scandal and were afraid they were going to be caught. Not to mention, with Crowder retiring, they knew keeping up the fraud would be more difficult.

What is an AFAM degree gonna get you on the outside?

The rest of the world is laughing at the bloated American college system & its smorgasbord of curriculum.

If standards were as high as in Europe 70% of current American students would already be out working rather than wasting their parents money.

I wish this country would push practical stuff (trade schools & apprenticeships) way harder.

The sheer volume of American students seriously dilutes the worth of an American college degree.

And remember kids, for every Harvard there are 10 Al Collins School of Graphic Design.

Sorry, kiddo. The Wainstein Report specifically says that NO coaches knew about the easy classes. ZERO. Of course, you probably know more than the man who led the investigation. :rolleyes

You have to discuss the principle of plausible deniability which is clearly at play here.

"The term most often refers to the capacity of senior officials in a formal or informal chain of command to deny knowledge of and/or responsibility for any damnable actions committed by the lower ranks because of a lack of evidence that can confirm their participation, even if they were personally involved or at least willfully ignorant of said actions. In the case that illegal or otherwise disreputable and unpopular activities become public, high-ranking officials may deny any awareness of such act in order to insulate themselves and shift blame on the agents who carried out the acts, confident that their doubters will be unable to prove otherwise. The lack of evidence to the contrary ostensibly makes the denial plausible, that is, credible."

You don't think Wainstein thought of that, little wuffie?During the press conference a reporter asked Wainstein what his "gut" feeling as an investigator was about whether or not coaches knew or were involved. He said no involvement or knowledge was his gut feeling as well as the findings of the comprehensive report.You people are blowing this waaaaay out of proportion.

Conundrum wrote:

You have to discuss the principle of plausible deniability which is clearly at play here.

"The term most often refers to the capacity of senior officials in a formal or informal chain of command to deny knowledge of and/or responsibility for any damnable actions committed by the lower ranks because of a lack of evidence that can confirm their participation, even if they were personally involved or at least willfully ignorant of said actions. In the case that illegal or otherwise disreputable and unpopular activities become public, high-ranking officials may deny any awareness of such act in order to insulate themselves and shift blame on the agents who carried out the acts, confident that their doubters will be unable to prove otherwise. The lack of evidence to the contrary ostensibly makes the denial plausible, that is, credible."

No-- the report says that no coaches ADMITTED to knowing about the easy classes. Not the same thing.I don't know how much contact you've had with big-money college athletics, but the thought that the coaches didn't know what their kids were doing academically is pretty laughable. I tutored a NCAA top-10 basketball program and a top-25 baseball team and the coaches knew exactly where their students were and how they were studying at all times. Heck-- one coach even constantly scolded his back-up center for going to the bathroom too often during the study sessions.These kids earn a ton of money for their schools. Their schools control every aspect of their lives-- including their academics. The coaches knew.

LOL Another guy who thinks he knows more than the investigators.

Once again, the investigators interviewed the coaches and said that none of them ADMITTED to knowing. That's not the same thing as "not knowing."

UNC Alum wrote:

LOL Another guy who thinks he knows more than the investigators.

4runner wrote:

No-- the report says that no coaches ADMITTED to knowing about the easy classes. Not the same thing.

I don't know how much contact you've had with big-money college athletics, but the thought that the coaches didn't know what their kids were doing academically is pretty laughable. I tutored a NCAA top-10 basketball program and a top-25 baseball team and the coaches knew exactly where their students were and how they were studying at all times. Heck-- one coach even constantly scolded his back-up center for going to the bathroom too often during the study sessions.

These kids earn a ton of money for their schools. Their schools control every aspect of their lives-- including their academics.

The coaches knew.

Sounds like he is doing the right thing. He's being loyal to the University that signs his checks. He's also being loyal to his family.What color is the sky in the world you live in? Would you really call a foul on something like this? There isn't a company in America who wants an employee like you. Are you a person who likes the lime light so much that you would really jeopardize dozens of families to get your name in the paper as a whistle blower? What happened at UNC hurt no one. The "heroes" who put this thing center stage will get what they deserve. Mary Willingham will get an award and some recognition in the next few months, but look her up in 5 years. There was no "integrity" in what she did, and she is going to feel the effects soon enough. I hope her book deal was worth it.

Not easy wrote:

Still a coward. Stand up and do what's right.

You can always get another job. Have some integrity.

Liberian Flu wrote:

Sounds like a man who has more to lose than just his integrity. Most people would do, or are doing the same thing right now. No one was hurt so get off your cross.

Loyalty to what? a corrupt farce that the NCAA is ? Yes we can't pay our "students", but we pay their bosses millions and they generate us millions. What world do you live in?

Loyalty is a virtue wrote:

Sounds like he is doing the right thing.

He's being loyal to the University that signs his checks.

He said he knows six colleges that do this. He doesn't have to be loyal to the other five.

I'm sure he's a coach or prof. who's either bounced around, or has friends at other major universities. Yes, being loyal to all 6 is the right thing here. Again, why report it at all? It helps no one and only brings publicity to yourself. Reporting something like this in the manner it was done is self serving.

R.I.F. wrote:

Loyalty is a virtue wrote:

Sounds like he is doing the right thing.

He's being loyal to the University that signs his checks.

He said he knows six colleges that do this. He doesn't have to be loyal to the other five.